I read, this morning, about the lunatic rhetoric of Rep. Allen West, namely in regards to his rationally incomprehensible suggestion as if President Obama and Congresspersons Reid and Pelosi should "get the hell out of the United States of America," in West making a grand gesture of hitting the hate button.
While, on one hand, I can pass it aside as it being a matter of lunatic rhetoric, but on the other hand, there is the natural concern that follows, for that such lunatic rhetoric was supported in the applause of the crowd to which Congressperson West was speaking. I myself feel that I should resolve myself to that, lest it could seem as though I was one to condone political lunacy. What follows is my initial comment on the article. I think it's too confounding for me to lend too much more consideration about, this afternoon.
My marking the matter as it being another example of the escapist lunacy that would seem to have become a political value of "the right", I don't personally know if the matter of West's lunatic statements could be well served by responding to it, directly.
I don't suggest we should set out to estrange the lunatic "right," any further than they have estranged themselves already from the rational, economically and culturally successful core of the nation. I don't suggest we should support their crazy rhetoric, whatsoever, though. I think we should stick to our own political principles, and represent those well, in such a way as that it relates to people, and they would feel they can relate to it.
If this was a game of the tortoise and the hare, I'm afraid that the high-speed, self-styled hare of the GOP has gone off its salt. Granted, though, I wouldn't so characterize the Democrat party as though it was like unto a tortoise - it was only a figure of expression.
I don't suppose this is quite a "game," either - though the lunacy of the times might seem to suggest as though it was nothing to be taken seriously, and naturally, people would feel estranged on account of that.
We need to represent the more compelling body of principles, and represent those consistently and well, in such a way as that it invites the involvement of the people. We should need to be convinced of those principles, ourselves, for that to succeed - in all of the ballast that we should now provide, in contrast to the escapist lunacy of the GOP.