Bloodless Coup

Uh, What He Said.

I was thinking this, but he said it first:

If there's been one thing most galling about the Worst President Ever's era, by the way, it's been having to care about the opinions of rank idiots. That somebody jollily febrile enough to rationalize torture - torture! - or question evolution - evolution?! - is actually in a position to influence my own life one way or another is flat fucking offensive to my strong sense of idiot-free self-deterrmination (very libertarian democrat!). One of the reasons I have a hard time cranking out wingnut takedowns is because, well, they're crazy idiots, and there's only so many ways you can say that before it starts feeling repetitive. I feel bad for Roy, Brad, et al even as I read them: these so-called "wingnuts" - you know, the ones currently wielding every extant lever of power in this country - are self-satisfied fools. All of them! Reading what they have to say, listening to them endlessly recycle the same stale fallacies, cheerfully lying: it can literally make you dumber. It's designed to, their talking points are designed to make you stupid. Wingnuts make stupid arguments because they are not good at thinking. They work, poorly, from incorrect first principles to lousy conclusions. Every time! And I have to care about these people. And we all have to care about what these malignantly stupid fools think. Let us fix this soon! It's embarrassing. All of us who are not like that, which by all evidence should include most people, should be working really hard to not have to care about them, the crazy things they think, and that's sort of the end of the story. Ideology, ideas, whatever. Those people are dangerously deluded and foolish. Let's the rest of us stop them.

I have nothing more to add, other than "When do the grown-ups come back?"