[Vision2020] Why Aaron Rench needs new peers (was "A Response to Chasuk")

[Joan Opyr]

On Sep 29, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Aaron Rench wrote:

"I know for a fact that Doug, Steve, and George do not believe that 
only "property owning men" to the exclusion of women, should be allowed 
to vote. If you can't understand and represent your opponent's 
position, how can you dialogue? You have proven that the blinders are 
locked on tight and that you are not able to step out from behind them 
to see what other people are actually saying. To begin the de-tox 
process, I suggest reading lots of poetry. It tends to cheer the soul. 
With peers like these, who needs reviews?"

I'm surprised, Aaron, by how little you seem to know of your boss's 
positions on these matters.  In Credenda Agenda, Doug Wilson has 
written that when women got the vote, men effectively lost it.  How?  
Because post-suffrage, husbands no longer voted on behalf of their 
families; they voted only for themselves.   One person, one vote.  
Thanks to the 19th Amendment, a wife might, horror of horrors, enter 
the voting booth and cancel out the vote of her "head."  Goodbye beauty 
in submission; hello democracy.  (I'd direct you to the exact volume 
and issue, but as you're Johnny-on-the-spot, why don't you just ask 
Doug?  He probably has a copy floating around somewhere.  Perhaps in 
the vicinity of the Wilson privy?)

As for the quotation Rose refers to from the movie "My Town," Steve 
Wilkins states that it is his belief that only property owners should 
have the right to vote.  He says this flat out, no qualifications, ifs, 
ands, or buts.  Doug then chimes in with an amusing analogy comparing 
democracy to two coyotes and a sheep debating over what to have for 
dinner.  The problem with democracy, Doug opines, is that an 
enfranchised but impoverished majority might choose to exercise its 
democratic power by voting to redistribute the wealth of a rich 
minority.  These are accurate representations of Doug's positions on 
democracy and women's suffrage, Aaron, and as for the property owners 
bit, if Doug's coyote story was meant to distance him from his 
neo-Confederate co-author, Steve Wilkins, then it failed, failed 
utterly.

Now, are you still feeling like a bit of poetry?  Then let's have some 
of T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland:

"Come in under the shadow of this red rock,
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust."

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.auntie-establishment.com

PS: I'd watch the anti-Nick Gier cracks, if I were you, Aaron.  It was 
under Nick's tutelage that Doug earned his Master's degree.  In the 
academic realm, this means that Doug is Nick's scholarly offspring (and 
that you, as Doug's student, are Nick's grandson).  I don't say this to 
bring shame upon Nick.  I'm sure that many a night he's awoken in a 
dreadful cold sweat over having directed Doug's thesis, but he can take 
comfort in the fact that there's a bastard at every family reunion, 
even if that family is only academic.