Right Wing News has a poll of conservative bloggers on who they like and dislike. Interestingly, Meghan McCain was the most disliked of the options. Never found her relevant enough to strongly dislike, though.

So Paul Krugman announced on his blog that he doesn’t read any contrary opinions. If you’ve ever seen Krugman’s columns, that’s pretty self-evident. They’re knee jerk partisan, intellectually incurious, and filled with easily refutable points and factual errors, and it would be hard to believe he’s ever ventured outside of an echo chamber to write like that.

As I said in a recent column, the left is basically the defenders of the status quo trying their best to keep us from fixing a broken system, and the last thing someone in that position wants to do is be exposed to a contrary opinion. The oddest part though is the arrogance. These are fringe leftists with no influence (even among the choir, Krugman has got to be getting pretty tiresome) telling everyone else they’re irrelevant? At what point do you stop dismissing him as a silly partisan and recognize this is actually a mental problem keeping some on the left from interacting with reality?

We could just ignore these people and move on without them, but that’s not very compassionate. They are incapable of understand why people on the right do things, so they’re going to be very scared and confused by what’s going to be coming. Think of a small child getting a shot; all he knows is that the doctor is hurting him. So it seems like we should do something to help these people understand. Or at least give them a lollipop afterwards.

Getting pretty tired of public sector unions. Basically they and the Democrats get together to bribe each other with our money. And now they’ve stormed the capitol in Wisconsin hoping to prevent the legislation trying to break them up.

Is that a democratic option we just didn’t know about? You invade a capitol and keep legislative action from happening? I guess it’s probably called something like a “mob veto”. So what would be an appropriate democratic response? Tear gas? Angry bees? Ninjas? That would be democracy in action — or action democracy.

Really, all we want is to finally cut the budget and break up these groups that basically exist to make sure the government is expensive and ineffective. And it is friggin’ hard. There are large swaths of people who think there is nothing more important than the government spending lots of money on them, and it is rather pathetic. But look at the factor of motivation here; we find these parasites annoying, but to cut them off is death to them. That’s why it seems unlikely that the average American who thinks we should cut the budget will be as motivated as the defenders of the status quo unless he feels his own way of life is really at stake from the system collapsing entirely. Don’t know how we get there. Sometimes I think we’ll just have to wait for the collapse and concentrate on making a better system next time so this doesn’t happen again.