This is mostly an encore post, unfortunately made more urgent recently.
What is the driving motivation of Republican budget cuts in Texas, Wisconsin, and the rest of the nation?
Quote of the moment:
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Stave 1
I thought of that line of Dickens’s when I read of this celebration of darkness, ignorance and calumny. Although, with the recent renewing of Limbaugh’s contract, it may no longer be true that his particular brand of darkness is cheap.
Still, it remains dark.
Scrooge meets Ignorance and Want, the products of his stinginess (drawing by John Leech, 1809-1870)
I was reminded of this post from three years ago by a discussion at What’s Wrong With the World (commented on earlier at the Bathtub, here), in which the principal protagonists appear to me to be wholly ignorant of the New Deal, the progressive movement and progressive ideals, and much more of U.S. history, law, and events. In effect, I thought, that discussion was fueled by that ugly, mean little boy, Ignorance. The angel warned Scrooge, “but most of all beware this boy [Ignorance], for on his brow I see that written which is Doom.”
(More about the drawing below the fold)
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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