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Thursday, September 09, 2004

It's Not Just the Wallet, Stupid!

Jonah Goldberg on Voting and Economic Self-Interest: "People vote - or at least should vote - based upon the kind of country they want their kids to live in. And that means they vote on more issues than narrow economic interest, however defined. Most people - liberals and conservatives - don't see the government as the source of a welfare check and therefore don't vote for the party that promises to put the most zeros on that check. Most see government more as a protector than a nanny. And some people see the government as a reflection of, and influence on, the society in general. And so asking them to subsidize soaking Jesus in urine offends them not because they're 'hicks' but because they don't think that's the sort of society they want to raise kids in."

2 Comments:

At 6:29 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"People vote - or at least should vote - based upon the kind of country they want their kids to live in"

Better not let Jimmy read that Jonathan. He'll blow a fuse. Doing something for the children? What a crazy idea.

"And so asking them to subsidize soaking Jesus in urine offends them not because they're 'hicks' but because they don't think that's the sort of society they want to raise kids in."

Boy there's a conservative cliche for you. Thousands and thousands of art is funded by the NEA but one guy decides to make some commentary on what he feels people are doing to the name of Jesus and it gets repeated out of context for the next 20 years.

Haywood

 
At 8:17 AM, Blogger Jonathan Pait said...

Take a look at the comment and you will see that it was the liberal who brought up the urine bit. Jonah was just responding to it.

"He [Thomas Frank, a left-wing journalist and author of the bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas?] cites, for example, the Piss Christ controversy, which, well, I'll let him describe it: 'Because some artist decides to shock the hicks by dunking Jesus in urine, the entire planet must remake itself along the lines preferred by the Republican Party, U.S.A.'"

Besides, going off on that portion of Jonah's column is a redherring.

 

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