Greenwald is
kicking ass during his guest blogging stint over at Digby.
Several weeks ago, Digby wrote a widely-discussed post describing how Bush followers are driven by their all-consuming and pitifully child-like fears of terrorists, leading them to consent to any measures taken by George Bush as long as he promises to save them. And this weekend, Kos wrote a similar post, in which he contrasted the classic and previously defining American bravery of Patrick Henry with the frightened Bush followers who beg the Government to restrict their liberties in exchange for saving them from the terrorists.
If the blogospheric reaction of Bush supporters is any indication, this argument is as politically potent as it is self-evidently true. Kos's post provoked shrieking seizures among the tough-guy, blindly loyal Bush followers -- the ones who revealingly give themselves play name like Rocket and Captain and who never tire of touting their own toughness. In response to Kos's post, they squealed and they yelled and they called him all kinds of names - they did everything but refute the argument.
And notably, in their anger, there was none of that smug bravado or all-too-familiar attacks on the courage of Bush opponents, because with this plainly accurate depiction, they stand revealed as being driven by nothing other than limitless, irrational fear. They are scared and they want to continue to implant their extreme fear into our national policies and onto our national character.
Spot on. I've never seen a group more afraid and desperate for others to share their pathological fears.
Their fear and cowardice is exposed when they patently refuse to put on some combat boots and head to the theater of war to fight their boogeymen. They'd rather hide under the bed than confront the object of their fears. Instead, they agitate for more war, more death and destruction, from the safety of their warm, cozy, and IED-free homes.
Their fear is exposed when they violate the very values on which this country was founded. Instead of "Give me liberty or give me death!" we get "Here's our liberties, just spare us from death!"
The United States of America and everything she stands for would not exist if it was up to these jokers. Thank heavens it wasn't.