Nihilism denies any basis for knowledge or truth and refutes all existing principles, knowledge and institutions.
Well, there are a number of Republicans who, unknowingly or not, obviously practice their own particular form.
Here is an oh-so-telling quote spoken to writer Ron Suskind by a senior Bush official in the summer of 2002:
The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''
Now some may argue this is not nihilism but but a dangerous concoction of hubris and mental illness but doesn't Karl Rove's birth certificate actually read Karl Nihilist Rove? As they intone so often on Faux News, some say so.
President Bush may not be able to spell, define or pronounce nihilism but but he has embodied it long enough to become the official spokesperson, if he only was capable of such..
These two comrades in mind-and-spirit have apparently generated yet another junior member whose brow shines with a ring of flopsweat desperation. Ohio Representative Jean Schmidt, having already been caught in fiscal flagrante delicto with drug lobbyists, has resorted to smearing the patriotism of her oppoent, Iraqi war veteran Paul Hackett.
Schmidt hides in the dress folds of Lady Liberty, criticizing Hackett for not being in lockstep with anything and everything President Bush has said and done regarding Iraq, while letting her brown shirts ooze excrement in excoriating Hackett's service to the United States in Iraq
Hackett's response to the soiling of his service:
"All the chicken hawks back here who said, 'Oh, Iraq is talking bad about us. They're going to threaten us' -- look, if you really believe that, you leave your wife and three kids and go sign up for the Army or Marines and go over there and fight. Otherwise, shut your mouth.
Just what have Schmidt's cesspool hench staff been up to?
Try radio ranters blasting Hackett, questioning both his time and duties in Iraq and for 'abusing' his military service in the employ of political purposes.
Try mysterious telephone calls doing the same.
Unattributed flyers twining Hackett to pedophilia or homosexuality will probably be next.
This is because the Republican Party has been taken over by an amoral cabal that believe in nothing. These morality-parading deviates have but one word that they live by: whatever. Whatever it takes to succeed, whatever is needed to savage those who disagree. These are not patriots, they are vile, self-serving aberrations who foment divisiveness. They swear by separatism and villification. To them, knowledge, truth and principles are of no use, in fact. they are perversions that only hinder.
They are the death by a thousand cuts, the velvet glove terrorists.