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October 3, 2005
What Makes Moonbattery Go
Posted by Dave Blount at October 3, 2005 9:48 PM
Want to see something scary? Just hop over to Daily Kos. There is a reason that insanity is such a common theme in horror movies. The potentially violent strains of it can really chill your blood.
A moonbat at Daily Kos named Raybin recently announced that he is going to do us the favor of shutting up and going away. That's the good news. The bad news is, he's still out there, and I don't think he's taking his meds.
Raybin apparently came to the conclusion that left-wing blogging is useless because the Left's ideals can only be imposed through force, not rational persuasion.
What we need, if we're going to attain a leftist utopia, isn't protest, much less reasoned discussion. What we need, according to Raybin, is "something akin to the French Revolution":
We need terror. We need horror. We need the streets running awash in rivers of blood...
Blogging is for people who don't need to worry about their knuckles scraping on the sidewalk. As for Raybin:
When y'all want to start throwing molotovs and sniping from windows come and talk to me.
In the meantime, he'll be laying low, waiting for society to come unraveled. His mind already has, and he knows it:
My mental state is collapsing and deteriorating almost daily. It's so consistent you could practically graph it. My life is falling apart at an equally alarming rate, and yet I feel like doing nothing to salvage it.
There you have it, moonbattery in a nutshell: "I'm all messed up, so I want to mess the world up." Misery loves company; so does psychosis. This is the engine that makes moonbattery go.
My guess is that Raybin will be back. The sickness needs to express itself, and it's fortunately unlikely that he has the guts to start throwing bombs or shooting random citizens from his window, much as he might fantasize about it. He'll have to settle for describing his psychosis, which is the one thing left-wing politics is good for.
Thanks to Josh for sending along the link.
