D-U-M dumb

I offer you E.J. Dionne's latest screed in The Washington Post, called "One Nation Deeply Divided". It slogs on for a standard column length, whining about how the country is deeply divided between nice democrats and evil republicans. He connects these divisions to a recent study of regional attitudes in America, which found that religious and conservative states tend to be republican, and many of them are southern.

The conclusion? Obviously, it's that we're about to have a war. And not a cultural war, for goodness sake, but possible another real Civil War:

It is 138 years since the Civil War ended. But in politics, the past isn't just history. In the Democratic presidential race, Howard Dean is under attack for talking kindly, sort of, about the guys with Confederate flags on their trucks. In Mississippi, Republican Barbour raised a defense of the Confederate flag to help himself win an election. Up in heaven, Abe Lincoln must be shaking his head in astonishment. The country he sought to keep united is pulling apart politically, and largely along the same lines that defined Honest Abe's election victory in 1860.

OK, so he didn't really mean we're going to have a war. He just meant that the south and the north are eternally incompatible because conservative southern Christians are stupid. Which is so much better.
- posted by Anonymous @ 8:10 PM