Saturday, August 11, 2012

All you need to know ...

Charlie Pierce sums up Paul Ryan well:

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Paul Ryan is an authentically dangerous zealot. He does not want to reform entitlements. He wants to eliminate them. He wants to eliminate them because he doesn't believe they are a legitimate function of government. He is a smiling, aw-shucks murderer of opportunity, a creator of dystopias in which he never will have to live. This now is an argument not over what kind of political commonwealth we will have, but rather whether or not we will have one at all, because Paul Ryan does not believe in the most primary institution of that commonwealth: our government. The first three words of the Preamble to the Constitution make a lie out of every speech he's ever given. He looks at the country and sees its government as something alien that is holding down the individual entrepreneurial genius of 200 million people, and not as their creation, and the vehicle through which that genius can be channelled for the general welfare.

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2 comments:

Gordon said...

He's an AynRandian. Says it all.

montag said...

Charlie calling him a zombie eyed granny starver may bring a smile, but Paul Ryan is a dangerous personification of the worst of the radical extremists of the right wing.