The Real American Taliban

Orson Scott Card on War Watch While there are large portions of Orson Scott Card's religious, philosophical and political views I disagree with (a more collegial disagreement than not, to be sure), he notes the character of the current enemies of civilization in the American arena of discourse pretty clearly in a recent article: ...the fanatics who now rule the Democratic Party, serving the cause of Smartland at the expense of the Heartland, will find that if they ever really get control of government, they will quickly be the most hated rulers our country ever had. Already large numbers of Americans seethe over the puritanical laws imposed on us by anti-democratic judges, who cannot wait for compromise and the political process to "purify" us. Already we are outraged by the propaganda they foist on our children in the schools, without reference to the values of the community or the roots of the American culture. The Taliban of Smartland will be just as repugnant to the people of America as the Islamist Taliban was to most of the people of Afghanistan... Be sure to read his well-reasoned, carefully-written comments here. BTW, strangely, I have the author (who shall go unnamed here) of a post whose rabid spittle flew wildly in a rant against Orson Scott Card in reaction to this article to 'thank" for leading me to these comments by Card.