In Fever Dreams Begin Irresponsibilities, Texas Edition
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 30th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
In Fever Dreams Begin Irresponsibilities, Texas Edition
“Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious,” Sigmund Freud wrote in 1899, over in Vienna, Austria.
The Republicans of Texas don’t have a lot of time for foreigners like Freud and foreign notions like psychoanalysis, although they do believe in therapy, as long as it’s “reparative.” Elsewhere on the psychiatric front, they are adamant that “minor mental-health diagnoses” are no reason to “infringe” anyone’s “God-given right” to own and to carry guns. More about the particulars in due course.
The thing is, the Republican Party of Texas has a dream. Lots of dreams: its platform, unveiled last week, has sixteen thousand words’ worth. The road it maps is anything but royal; these good people, after all, are republicans, albeit with a capital “R.” But the document does lead to the G.O.P.’s unconscious, or part of it: its fearsome, rampaging id.
