The reasoning powers and moral compass of a wingnut

You know, if Raven had actually set out to demonstrate to the world that she has all the moral comprehension of a bucket of dead hagfish, she could not have done a better job than she has managed in the last few days.

I pointed out earlier that Raven was engaging in the eliminationist rhetoric so beloved of the wingnut fringe. Eliminationists of Raven’s stripe are not content to merely vent their spleen on those with whom they disagree; no, they insist that anyone not in their camp must die. In this case, Raven was expressing her desire to see Congressman John Murtha, an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, killed in a terrorist attack on the US Capitol Building.

The result was predictable. Some of Raven’s equally unhinged buddies came over here, and the bile flowed like the mighty Mississippi. Raven’s most recent contribution to the ‘discussion’ is a masterpiece of spluttering outrage, unleavened by anything resembling rational thought. Read the entire outburst here; I’ll hit the highlights below:

nananananah

sticking my tongue out at you!!

Whacha gonna do? Go cry to Mommy? Make her get me?

pfft.

One can always count on a whackjob who is as far gone as Raven to revert to the mannerisms of a six-year-old at some point.

And to answer the question: I’m going to go on doing what I have been doing — pointing out the amoral cesspool in which dwell the extreme rightwing hatemongers like Raven.

Go drink some more Mountain Dew, drool some more, and buy another bottle of Jergens. You’re a loathe to human beings. Don’t you have better things to do than this? Baiting bloggers is a fun game and you got lots of comments here. It will be the last time though. You are, what we call, a troll. To be ignored for your ignorance and arrogance.

I think Raven meant that I am a “loathesome human being”. Command of the English language is not one of her strong points. Neither is logic, since she clearly isn’t ignoring what I’ve said.

YES…I wish harm upon Murtha- I want him to take the hits so YOU and ME and everyone doesn’t have too. It’s better to HATE one than all. Hate isn’t always a bad thing. It’s human. And unlike you, I am a human being who wishes to stay alive vs. have my life legislated away by some old coot whose time has long gone.

Well, let’s have a look at what passes for logic in Raven’s tiny little world. First, we have magical thinking: If John Murtha dies in a terrorist attack, then an enchanted shield springs into being around Raven, protecting her from all the terrorists in the world.

Hate isn’t always bad, says Raven. Let’s look at the wonderful effects that hatred has had on Raven herself: Hatred has led her to advocate the bombing of the US Capitol Building, an act that would undoubtedly lead to the deaths of dozens if not hundreds of her fellow citizens. The attack on the US base at Bagram, Afghanistan last February was aimed at killing Vice President Dick Cheney, and resulted in the deaths of at least three US soldiers and a number of other people. Raven has come out in favor of an attack that would kill even more Americans. And this would be a good thing, in the morally inverted world that Raven inhabits, if it leads to the death of the man who is the target of Raven’s blind, unreasoning hatred.

Get a grip Meat Head. The world is full of peaceful easy goers like you, and every time an attack occurs people like you are in charge. It takes the tough people to end the wars and destroy the enemies so that YOUR sorry ass can live. You’re an ungrateful, selfish, moronic person who makes my skin crawl. You repulse me and we best not ever meet face to face. You’d be wiping up more than just your own drool.

How amusing. Raven is rooting for another terrorist attack on US soil — but she believes that someone else needs to “get a grip”.

Apparently, it also takes a tough person to advocate a terrorist attack on US soil that would kill a Congressman and many others. Only an ungrateful, selfish moron would think that such an attack would be a bad thing. Only an ungrateful, selfish moron would speak up to criticize the uber-patriot Raven and her desire to see Americans die to satiate her hatred. And of course, no harangue from Raven would be complete without a threat of physical violence. Like Gribbit, Raven has decided that once it is obvious that she cannot formulate an intelligent argument, she can cover her retreat with a snarl. As the late, great Isaac Asimov put it so well, “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent”.

As David Neiwert has been documenting for some years, the eliminationist rhetoric of right-wingers like Raven has been growing in volume and ferocity, and moving further into the ‘mainstream’ of American right-wing political thought. It is, in its way, a tacit admission of failure — the wingnuts recognize on some level that they will never be able to win the day with arguments based on fantasy and lies, and so they choose to work towards the actual elimination of those with whom they disagree. It is a sad fact that we will see many more Ravens demanding that their opponents must die, before (I hope) Americans ultimately reject the deathmongers of the far right.