Let's Begin To Respond To The Actual Message For A Change

Lately, the LAT's gotten far too conservative for my tastes, but today's editorial makes a good point.

Of course, no one with the brains that the Goddess gave to a garbanzo bean actually believes that Democrats want "the terrorists" to "win." (Lynn Cheney, bite me.) But that's not what the Republicans are "really" saying. What they're really saying is that the Democrats, unlike the Republicans, don't love, love, love, love, love a state of perpetual war. And that makes them less "tough" and, (thanks Zoraster for that dualism thing, it's working out real well) therefore, in the patriarchy, it renders the Democrats the "women" and the Republicans the "men." And we know who is always supposed to win in the patriarchy. Even many women believe, at their core, that men must win in the patriarchy. And, in the patriarchy, men adore war. The person who adores war the most, who adores the most war, who most of all, adores war, that person is the "man" and the person who even seems to suggest that, perhaps, if, for example, stopping terrorism is our objective, well then, perhaps, just maybe war is not actually the answer, well, that person is the "woman."

Of course, this is so because "stopping terrorism" is not, and never has been, the goal of the patriarchy. In fact, terrorism is one of the patriarchy's prime tools. I'm at a loss for even one example of a time when an all-women's group has used terrorism and don't you dare suggest Lysistrata or I'll turn you into a toad and you won't get better. You can't sustain a patriarchy without resort to at least some subtle forms of terrorism. No, patriarchy's only goal is subjection of the other; there's no room for "fighting terrorism." Women, brown people. Moslems, the poor, other men who aren't as "tough" and "resolute" and as frantically, personally, religiously, ecstatically
devoted to war as you are; in patriarchy, the other must be subjugated.

So let's don't pretend that responses that point out Democratic attempts to actually address terrorism can effectively respond to the Republican propaganda about how Democrats love terrorists and want Osama to win. That's not what Bush and the others are really talking about. Karl Rove knows it and I know it.