Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
the two ideas expressed in one reply...precious.Is the U.S. Following in Rome’s Footsteps? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
I suppose our great land still has pockets of the benighted who will see our even speculating on the notion of Americas tumbling from its perch as subversive. Ive found that as with surviving admirers of the late tail-gunner, Joseph McC. of Wisconsin anything less than nonstop boosterism about the land of the free is considered commie still in some circles.
Maybe well both get the counterpart of my favorite bit of hate mail: a hand-lettered note with return address on a telegram blank from Waco, Texas (a favorite choice of dwelling for hate mailers) that ran, Dear Dick Cavett You Little Sawed-off Faggot Communist Shrimp. I wrote back, I am not sawed off. (Do you suppose they got it? In either sense?)
McCarthyism and HyperPatriotism, and Stupid hateful bigots...anything sound familiar?