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Let Them Eat Santorum

Ive always liked Dan Savage. Hes never been afraid to hurt feelings. Listen, Lonely In Detroit, so long as you live with your mother and maintain a Farscape website youre probably not going to score much. Thats reality. Forty and Fatherless, dont drag anyone else into you emotional bog. Chained up in the Dark and Begging For Help, youre certainly in a dire predicament, but…

However, this new column of his is like something deleted from the Ted Rall message board for poor taste. If this is to be the lefts new position, then they deserve to lose every national election until the Rapture, when they can finally have their godless paradise.

“Certain distressed liberals and progressives are talking about fleeing to Canada or, better yet, seceding from the Union. We can’t literally secede and, let’s admit it, we don’t really want to live in Canada. It’s too cold up there and in our heart-of-hearts, we hate hockey. We can secede emotionally, however, by turning our backs on the heartland. We can focus on our issues, our urban issues, and promote our shared urban values. The Republicans have the federal government–for now. But we’ve got Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City (Bloomberg is a Republican in name only), and every college town in the country. We’re everywhere any sane person wants to be. Let them have the shitholes, the Oklahomas, Wyomings, and Alabamas. We’ll take Manhattan.”

And that was the most rational part of the whole diatribe. Read this and youll never second guess your Bush vote.

Hat Tip: Sully

  1. Timbo says:

    Last week’s Stranger was almost entirely devoted to spearheading urban secession. Check it out for a chuckle.

    I’ve said in the past that we’ll see another civil war in our lifetime, but that the dividing line will be the urban growth boundary instead of the Mason-Dixon.

    But I love wilderness too much to ever be a real city boy.

  2. Pete says:

    I didn’t understand what sort of outreach program the liberal community at large had going in rural America in the first place. Haven’t they been barricading themselves in for thirty years now? I’d like to see one antiwar march that ended in Springfield instead of the Eugene City Hall. Preach to someone else, the choir snuck out the back.

  3. Timothy says:

    There was a space between the = and the ” that seemed to be the culprit.

  4. Sho says:

    Wait, is Dan Savage promoting the idea that government should have more control at a local level? That politicians in cities should focus on cities instead of worrying about guns and the environment in rural areas? Is Savage essentially advocating what small government Republicans have been talking about for years now? Is this what we call irony?

    Also, I think the links were okay, it’s just that copying and pasting from Word (which I think is what happened) messes up quotation marks.

  5. Timothy says:

    Yar, I fixed it. Also, to echo my sentiments about one Hill-Meyer: Fuck that guy. Or better yet, don’t fuck Dan Savage, let him get old and lonely and never get laid again.

  6. Timothy says:

    Link be broken.

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