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Charles Johnson brings us a post from some mad hatter at The Daily Kos who ---well--- there's no explaining it. Read and retch:
We are making errors with references to Cindy Sheehan.And so forth and so on.
What are we trying to accomplish with promoting her?
Emphasizing her sacrifice.
Emphasizing her stating truth to power.
Emphasizing her plain speaking, clear statements.
Relate her vigil over her dead son to universal archtypes of all vigils over dead children killed by dictatorial rulers throughout all history.
My suggestions below:
1. We should call her “Mother Sheehan”. We should never call her Cindy; I don’t know her. “Mother Sheehan” is her title, and expresses her ceremonial status as a bereaved mother, calling forth over the dead body of her son. She is not a person now, she is a mother, which is not an expression of her individuality, but rather the expression of her eternal character: the mother, the bringer of life who has been wronged by state power.
It isn't just that it's an insane statement that disturbs the reasonable, but that it's so typical in its college-boy earnestness. If I take it for parody at any point, the next sentence dissuades me: these are thoughts that arise from a habit of mind that could not be imitated by art; they are ---in their self-loathing and loathesomeness--- inherent to the character of the Leftist.
Broken-minded, broken-hearted haters who imagine themselves the very essence of human enlightenment.
What insanity!