Wingnut wonkery
By It’s not uncommon for those on our side of the aisle to engage in what we call wonkery–playing around with ideas for tweaking and improving policy, regardless of the political feasibility of such schemes. It’s a reasonable way to pass the time, and it keeps us off the streets.
So recent events on this blog let me to pay a visit to the award-winning website of one Kim du Toit. In a discussion thread, a number of commenters were engaging in what can only be called wingnut wonkery. The “policy problem” they were trying to crack? How to prevent evils socialist Californians from fleeing their horrible socialist cesspool of a state, and (for some unspecified and frankly baffling reason) attempting to institute socialism again in the good red states they choose to inflict themselves on. So the problem is, how do these good red state denizens prevent this impending disaster? One Du Toit fan, who was kind enough to pay us a visit in the thread below, offered up the following bit of wingnut wonkery, which I offer without further comment, because really, what is there to say?
There aren’t enough folks in the red states to stem this tide…the best they can do is pass laws to encourge these idiots to not move in…Privatizing education completely would work…as well as creative ideas like sales tax surcharges on customers that aren’t practicing Open Carry.