QOTD: Karl Rove
by digby
This line seems to be a popular one on the right. Talking about Bernie Sanders answer to the question of what he considers the greatest national security threat to the US, Rove inanely answers:
He named climate change. One can imagine President Sanders ordering special forces to the headquarters of Exxon, Shell and Chevron to haul off oilmen to re-education camps cooled and heated by renewable energy.
Very smug, very glib. However, it's also very revealing that the term national security automatically evokes images of "ordering special forces" somewhere. It is evidently unthinkable that the nation's security could be threatened by something that cannot be met with military action or force of some kind. What small, cramped thinking. How dangerously shortsighted.
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