The local 97.1 right-wing radio personality decided to tell anyone who is not on the street protesting that they should go to hell with the Leftists because they are part of the problem.

Her message was that, if you are too busy making a living, then you are morally compromised.

So the paid activist who makes a living by advertising for companies that sell products and services was condemning the people who made her life possible.

I remember P. J. O’Rourke back in the eighties pointing out that there will always be Leftist because

Trouble is fun.  It will always be more fun to carry a gun around in the hills and sleep with ideology-addled college girls than to spend life behind a water buffalo or rotting in a slum.

And that is why conservatism will always be unromantic, unhip, and uncool.  Living a quiet life is not a glorious quest (except it is, but that requires the eyes to see).

And it is also why the state and the corporations or the corporations and the state–the predator class–will always have the time and energy to increase their control and exploitation of their lives.  Everyone likes power and profit but some people had to earn it.  Others work for it without earning it.  That is politics.

To rip into people for not being political beings is to basically despise conservative life.

In any case, Dana’s panic was largely driven by her confidence that if passed “health care” could never be repealed.  But that underestimates what is going on.  The entire twentieth century was a bubble that is about to pop.  Everything is about to be repealed, especially the “rule” that once enacted it is impossible to repeal a law.

We live in glorious times.  No need to beat up the people living through them.