CHARLES DICKENS ON REPUBLICANS
Selected Excerpts from "A Christmas Carol"
ON THE ULTIMATE FATE OF THE ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT-ELECT:
…he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusatory…
The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains… some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together; none were free.
ON THE THEOCRATIC EFFORTS OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT:
"Spirit," said Scrooge, after a moment's thought," I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people's opportunities of innocent enjoyment."
"I?" cried the Spirit.
"You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all," said Scrooge. "Wouldn't you?"
"I?" cried the Spirit.
"You seek to close these places on the Seventh Day." said Scrooge. "And it comes to the same thing."
"I seek?" exclaimed the Spirit.
"Forgive me if I am wrong. It has been done in your name, or at least in that of your family," said Scrooge.
"There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit," who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."
ON BUSH AND THE TEXAS DEATH CHAMBER:
"Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart… Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions…
ON THE REPUBLICAN ATTITUDE TOWARD SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS:
Oh, God! To hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!"
ON THE ELECTION 2000 (E2K) BLUES:
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
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