Questionable Ideology, serviced by Abominable Writing

Via a pretty convoluted series of links (Anne Zook to David Neiwert) I see this ‘essay’ by one ‘Kaye Grogan’, which proposes that “Unfounded accusations against Presidents should be a felony”. One does wonder what the effects of this might have been had it been law in, oh, 1993 or later, but never mind. Instead I’m drawn to this paragraph:

“The Democratic party have probably written their own obituary, by not taking the bull by the horns and laying out a concrete plan to entice voters. Raising taxes have about run their course, and as someone brought out. . . pro-life Democrats are dwindling away. They are dwindling away about like an ice cube in 600 degree temperatures in Hades. Since the biggest majority of Americans are pro-life, this is and should be a disastrous platform for Democrats. Won’t they ever learn? Apparently not.”

Consider that. Not the same old idiotic idea that Democrats would win if they’d only be like Republicans (one imagines a Republican Henry Higgins, singing “Why can’t a Democrat be more like a Republican?”), but just consider the appalling grammar here. That should read “The Democratic Party has probably written its own obituary”; “Raising taxes has about run its course”; and “Since the majority of Americans are pro-life…”. (Why use the adjective “biggest”? Is there more than one majority?)

The rest of the article is similarly ghastly. According to the author’s bio, Ms. Grogan is a freelance writer with a body of published work. One can only assume she’s a valued customer of PublishAmerica, or that somebody out there is so desperate for a hack conservative who comes cheap that they shelled out a few nickels for Ms. Grogan’s horrible prose.

One can only hope. If this woman is making a living from writing like this, I may just have to open a vein or two.

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