10 thoughts on “The Moral-Panic Phase”

  1. Hilarious, and on point as always. Goldberg is a gem. When the world’s greatest deliberative body is debating the meaning of high school euphemisms for bodily emissions, one might conclude we have hit rock bottom. Yet, gauging the trajectory, one can only surmise that the drill rigs have been deployed, and we probably won’t stop until we hit liquid hot magma.

  2. Because, finally, there was a left–right fight about which I am largely un-conflicted. This wasn’t a brouhaha about Trump or any of the usual stuff.

    Goldberg suffers from the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. He finally begins to see the light but doesn’t think to apply it to the subjects he is “conflicted” on.

    I keep hearing from other, even more ardent, Trump critics that people like me should vote for — and endorse — the Democrats because the Republican party has been utterly corrupted by Trump. I get that argument,

    I don’t get it. Why not do what other Republicans do when they are upset with their party and primary incumbents?

    You can blame him for making it harder to speak credibly about sexual misbehavior since there are so many credible allegations against him.

    Notice the weasel word, misbehavior. Yes, having consensual affairs with other adults is misbehavior but it isn’t rape or sexual assault. Trump isn’t viewed as an adulterer by the Democrats but a rapist. They paid women to make accusations. Did Goldberg forget that? Or was it just the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect causing him to believe the allegations? Notice that Lisa Bloom and Gloria Alred were not lawyers for any of the accusers this time. That would have been too on the nose.

    Why the Hell are people losing their minds?

    A question many have asked about Goldberg. It seems that every week he gets a little closer to realizing how wrong he has been. The glass of water is in hand and the red pill is sitting before him on his desk. There is hope for him but it shouldn’t take assaults on people he views as his class to get him to realize the need to fight back and why does he think fighting back can be done without appearing combative?

      1. I think Jonah is a great writer. His guided-tour observations on the wretched slab of Earth that is the ANWR coastal plain especially are timeless classics.

        But he seems to be pining for a political environment that simply doesn’t exist anymore, if it ever did. It seems particularly curious given his proximity to some of the players in the bitterest bar room brawls we’ve had in this country over the past 30 odd years.

    2. — It seems that every week he gets a little closer to realizing how wrong he has been. —

      He does seem to making progress.

      I tend to find more “proof” that God exists- meaning a god with a plan.
      Of course, God knows what the plan is.
      [probably not all sunlight and dancing flowers]

      But we seem to getting biblical stuff happening.
      Is God hardening the dems hearts?
      Or did the Egyptian pharaoh ever have a heart- likewise with Dems?
      Revealing their hearts might be more accurate.

      All this transparency, got to love it.

    3. Goldberg suffers from the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. He finally begins to see the light but doesn’t think to apply it to the subjects he is “conflicted” on.

      Those two lines… well done wodun. well done.

  3. Funnily enough, had the Democrats come forward and said, “We can’t have this guy because he was instrumental in the Clinton impeachment,” it might have seemed reasonable. I thought it was reasonable my Republican friends antipathy to Hillary was reasonable too, given her history with helping push Nixon out of office. But the current lunacy only deepens my regret at ever having been a Liberal. I can blame my parents for bringing me up as one, but it’s my fault I didn’t wake up until I was in my fifties.

    1. That would open the door to rejecting Democrat candidates based on their political and activist work though.

      I think you are right that it is a reasonable claim. It would have been compelling to the Flakes out there but probably not sensational enough.

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