Big Sky Cairn

The Sinestrasphere has designs for Montana. They are working to elect candidates who reflect their ideals - and short of that - candidates who will give the extreme wing of their party a majority in the Congress and the Presidency. Sometimes in the back-and-forth rhetoric we lose track of the fact that we are arguing about real things. The left wants real change - but the question is whether the change they want is for the best.

Witness the following comment left here by Mark T, prolific author of Piece of Mind.

Well, now, fact is that U.S. did steal the Southwest from Mexico. We’re just not allowed to acknowledge that, while it is common knowledge down there. I think the ad is hilarious.

Is this the philosophy we want calling the shots in Washington, DC? It’s comments like this that motivate me to blog. There are differences and they do matter and even Mark acknowledges the power we can wield together:

Nationally right wingers dominate the media - yes, even the “liberal media” is right wing. With so much power at their disposal, they set the tone and content of most of what we discuss. Obama’s Pastor Wright was not a big deal, but was made one by the incessant noise - we had no choice but blather on about it because it was being replayed for us on every news outlet, every righty blabber-outlet, and of course, linked at every right wing blog.

That’s power.

Wow - it’s the first time I’ve been descried as “prolific” without any other epitaphs. Thank you!

Epitaphs?

Paging Dr. Freud.

Interesting to note that nowhere in here do you contradict the fact that U.S. stole the Southwest from Mexico; you simply decry the ability of someone to actually mention it.

So, own up: Did the U.S. steal the Southwest from Mexico? If your answer is no, back it up. If the answer is yes, then why not mention it? Is the mere act of mentioning it somehow advocating Mexico reconquering it?

I’d say that some folks gave it to the U.S. after we demonstrated through military force that we could use it more efficiently. Sort of the same way they got it from the people who had it first and so on and so forth.

Cultural Darwinism. Not theft.