I've been reading Andrew Bacevich's The Limits of Power. It's a good book. Really, really good. So far as I can tell, it's both indubitably correct and completely politically incorrect. Not in the "Why can't we tell racist jokes anymore?" wingnut sense, but rather in the Things That No Politician Can Ever, Ever Say way. His message is essentially conservative, but it's my kind of conservatism, and I suspect that you'd find more people on the left these days who believe that America cannot continue to exist unbounded than you could on the right. I've heard enough Rush Limbaugh to know that the conservative base is totally on board with conspicuous consumption.
In other words, a conservative movement more like Andrew Bacevich would be a good thing. Instead, it's just a bunch of pathetic overgrown bullies playing at facile manipulations while the country burns. When I read stuff like this I realize just how far round the bend the GOP really has gone. Evidently profanity, debauchery, and intemperance are the cornerstones of contemporary conservatism, right alongside Christianity. Just another sign of the utter Dixification of the Republican Party, and concomitantly its death spiral.
