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Will krazen please explain to us what exactly makes Representative Baldwin and the populace of Dane County 'nutters', as opposed to people with whom he disagrees politically and whom he dislikes?

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Entirely independent of his bizarre double standards and excuses on the subject of the appropriate level of political discourse, which he of course has done so much to heighten in his time on the Atlas Forum, am I correct in reading the other portion of krazen's response to my original question as a very lazily coded way of saying that he considers Tammy Baldwin a 'nutter' because she is a lesbian?

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I was thinking of 'personal lifestyle choices'. I'm accustomed to seeing the Bay Area, my state, and a few other places being used as generic (and interchangeable, which is hilarious to anybody who's bothered to live in or even extensively visit any) synecdoches and shibboleths for the 'fake America'.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Sorry, I've been doing literary analysis of other texts involving lesbians this evening (albeit texts from ninety years ago) and forgot to turn it off.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

If Tammy Baldwin was married to a big tough manly man with muscles and a penis and a manly job like long-haul trucker or haircare specialist, or if she was such a man herself, I sincerely doubt that anybody would think to use the fact that she's slightly less popular in her safely left-wing district than national left-wing icon Russ Feingold to indicate much of anything.

What exactly does "Bay area" voting record mean?  And I thought nobody cared what women do to women; it's only when men do it, that some feel threatened.

Bay Area=mythical homogeneously white-liberal elitist cultural area, which may or may not be the same area as Dane County or New England, which are similarly homogeneous, dontcha know.

Nobody cared what women did to each other until relatively recently but that's one of the changes that modernity and the Victorian fixation on better-managed sex wrought.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

If Tammy Baldwin was married to a big tough manly man with muscles and a penis and a manly job like long-haul trucker or haircare specialist, or if she was such a man herself, I sincerely doubt that anybody would think to use the fact that she's slightly less popular in her safely left-wing district than national left-wing icon Russ Feingold to indicate much of anything.

What exactly does "Bay area" voting record mean?  And I thought nobody cared what women do to women; it's only when men do it, that some feel threatened.

Bay Area=mythical homogeneously white-liberal elitist cultural area, which may or may not be the same area as Dane County or New England, which are similarly homogeneous, dontcha know.

Nobody cared what women did to each other until relatively recently but that's one of the changes that modernity and the Victorian fixation on better-managed sex wrought.

You forgot to mention that Tammy Baldwin is also slightly less popular than proven twice loser non-friend of the unions Tom Barrett.

Okay, but in the contexts that we're looking at I'm still skeptical that that's enough to declare her mentally unsound. At worst she's a less-than-ideal pick for a Senate candidate in her state, which I don't think any of us are denying.

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I'm aware of this, which is what makes a lot of the venomous cultural rhetoric surrounding the Bay Area as compared with other strongly left-leaning parts of the country strike me as somewhat curious. Vermont, for example, is also very white, indeed whiter than Dane County. Ideally I wouldn't think that white liberals should be inherently perplexing, even in large numbers and concentrations. Their existence is pretty well-established.