Primum Non Nocere

Michael Lind presumes to know why Republicans want gridlock. It is, of course, because it's a party composed chiefly of a rapidly decreasing number of white bigots who can see the end of their national political dominance coming soon and will do, as a result, anything and everything to forestall their sure demise, to include frustrating the morally superior political claims of the growing rainbow majority.

If that sentence was too long, allow me to summarize: Republicans want gridlock because they're racists.

Geez! Does it ever occur to people like Lind that the gridlock might be more simply explained by the fact that the GOP is currently the minority party in Congress and, within the rules, it's the best it can do to oppose those policies proposed by the Democrat with which it disagrees? Or, perhaps, it can be explained more simply still because apropos of the stand they are currently making in opposition to the Democrat's health care proposals, they are motivated and informed by the old maxim: First, do no harm.

By the way, after insulting all the white people in the Republican party, Lind goes on to suggest constitutional amendments that would, he argues, better represent the new rainbow majority. His proposals are interesting and worth reading if for no other reason than to force you to consider more seriously why the Framers were right in the first place.