These are the 20 things that should be posted on every political blog in the country. In the comments, if nowhere else.
1) A rich kid goes into the adult world with a fully paid for education, a list of business contacts provided by parents, and co-signers for any personal or business loan they may need. If this kid needs to inherit billions to maintain a suitable lifestyle, as his parents say, Joe Middle-Class can have government assistance.
2) Climate change becomes dangerous when the world's average temperature goes up JUST A FEW DEGREES. When the birds are falling from the sky and civilization breathes its last, January in Bismark, North Dakota will still be in the -20s.
18 more below the doodle.
3) Life is not like Matlock. If you accuse a right winger of crimes or sins, with evidence, he will not bow his head and confess. He will call you a liar at the top of his voice, dismiss your evidence, and call the trial a partisan sham. Then Rush will say you want the terrorists to win.
4) The Right, especially the 1%, do not care about facts, evidence, or even rationality. They care about results. If crazy lies work, get them the votes and the power and the money, then that is what they use. Before you laugh, take a look at who's winning.
5) When the rules reward sociopathy, then sociopaths rule. Don't like sociopaths in charge? Change the rules.
6) People who don't mind government spying on them because they aren't doing anything wrong should be reminded that their definition of wrongdoing may not be the same as the government's.
7) They will never, ever say that they were wrong or that they are to blame. It is not in their nature. If they could accept blame, they would not be where they are today. Don't bother blaming them. Just gently guide them away from the dangerous levers of power. And install safety locks.
8) The Left can do straight appeals to emotion, too.
9) Forget about dog whistles. If the Democrats had elected an old white Virginian, the Republicans would still be blowing. They might use different whistles, but they'd be signalling the same dogs.
10) The end of Government would not be the end of governance. Even after the federal government is drowned in a bathtub, men will still pass laws, and other men will still enforce them. The difference is that the laws would not be made to benefit the people.
11) We think ourselves more sophisticated than the country hicks who bought Snake Oil and gaped at Freak Shows. Nowadays, we have Herbal Remedies and Reality TV.
12) Someone please remind the survivalists that the U.S. Army has spent the last decade learning how to deal with zealots with rifles out there in the boonies.
13) Really, survivalist? You think the government would send a platoon of infantry to get you rather than a Hellfire missile?
14) Assuming that the Bible is literally true, it's still an English translation of a Latin translation of a Greek translation of a Hebrew translation of a Babylonian translation of an Ancient Hebrew translation of the original writings of Moses - which, as he was an Egyptian prince, were probably written in Coptic. You can't tell me there weren't some errors.
15) Protecting the country from thieves is not anti-capitalism.
16) Any American can join the 1% so long as they get enough corporate welfare and have friends in government to refund their losses.
17) People who think that they can just disbelieve the truth away should be tied to the railroad tracks and told to disbelieve in the train.
18) A child thinks that God is a man with a robe and a long beard who stands on a cloud and grants wishes. What does that tell you about some televangelists?
19) A lot of the Radical Right mistake God for Zeus.
20) They don't care what you Think. They don't care what you Say. You have to Do.