It's the Day's Day of Days! Because mama put my guns in the ground.
Well, let's give Muir credit here. Many of the Founding Fathers were racist aristocratic white guys, so it's not a complete stretch to claim that Muir and his ilk represent them.
But the truth is Muir's politics are more Tory than Revolutionary. Or even Whig.
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So many strawmen, so little time. I think my favorite is the line about "all commoners are equal," which is laughable to anyone with even a passing familiarity with the European feudal system. Maybe it's too much to expect Muir to understand the "Great Chain of Being," but wouldn't he have to know how stratified society was?
ReplyDeleteThis is why it's such a shame that DBD, unlike most webcomics, doesn't have a comments section or forum. I'd love to hear just how dense his fans are. Yeah, there's a Facebook thing, but it's not really the same (plus, I avoid FB pages like they're going to give me eyeball cancer).
As I've noted before, whenever Muir decides to call on the historical record, it skips. He seems to think that the British throne was a Bourbon/Sun King-style absolute monarchy. And even his image of how that operated is grossly distorted. (He's also mixed up Louis XIV with Louis XVI. And been called on it by his own readers.)
ReplyDeleteAnd needless to say, that is an utterly false image of what was already a constitutional monarchy with limited sufferage. (Albeit sufferage that gave places with in some cases one voter the same representation as places with significantly more.)