One of these is not like the others….

In the course of denouncing a University of Texas professor for making an environmentally apocalyptic statement, Sully gives us the following. See if you can pick out the problem:

In the long run, right-wing fundamentalism and left-wing fundamentalism end up in the same place.

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You have John McCain’s new best friends, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, seeing the End-Times approach, when every homosexual, feminist and Jew will be roasted alive by Jesus. You have Marxists expecting the Communist revolution when all alienation will be dispelled. And you have the fundie enviro-left eagerly anticipating species annihilation. To my mind, it’s a very good indicator of whether someone is worth listening to from a political stand-point. Those who expect the end of the world relatively soon should be kept as far away from public office as possible. They can keep their apocalypses to themselves.

A pox on all their houses!!

But maybe, just maybe, John McCain’s new best friends are a slightly bigger threat than a few lonely, bitter Marxists and a UT professor who likes plagues. And possibly, lumping the former into a group with the latter really does a disservice to reality by failing to grapple with the fact that the right-wing extremists are members-in-good-standing of the Republican political machine while the left-wing extremists are in the wilderness and will continue to be in the wilderness for the foreseeable future.