Revolutionary Error

Like George W. Bush, he was an essentially frightened, unloved young man who came of age under tremendous pressure to live up to a famous father, who failed to distinguish himself as a scholar or an athlete and was relegated to the sidelines, whose desperate jocularity was shot through with a kind of unexamined sadism. Both men have forged a path to success via an alarming absence of self-reflection.

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Steve Almond, articulating a very important reason to be scared of the prospect of a President Romney, in this article. (via smartasshat)

This is important.