paranoid style
Feb. 4th, 2003 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbMichelle Goldberg's Salon article about the Conservative Political Action Conference is good reading, at least if you're in the choir and you don't mind a little preaching.
My favorite line, not particularly relevant to the article's thesis, is about the aforementioned dystopia:
To attend CPAC is to crash through the looking glass into a world where passionate worship of the president is part of a brave rebellion against government, where Sweden is a hellish dystopia and Tom Daschle a die-hard Marxist. It's to realize that, despite the conservative hold on the White House, the Congress and the Supreme Court and the utter dejection among Democrats, right-wingers still fancy themselves an embattled minority facing an army of wily, ruthless leftists, who they hate with the righteous fury of the downtrodden.
My favorite line, not particularly relevant to the article's thesis, is about the aforementioned dystopia:
"Sure, some people there might be happy," he allowed, "but how do you define happiness?"
