Move the spectrum and the middle moves too.

By Harry Bathwater

I’ve been mulling over Bush’s recent stem cell decision for the last few weeks and have come to understand what their rational is.

As we know, the Bush gang doesn’t do anything without good reason. And that reason has to be to further their right wing agenda and please their corporate overlords.
To do this they have to pander to their religious base.

It’s obvious to everyone (who thinks for themselves) that these cells which would otherwise be discarded should be used for medical research.

This, however, is the clever right wing plan.

They want to make abortion illegal but most people in America don’t want that. Those who are anti abortion are seen as “right wing kooks”
By creating a song and dance over these unwanted embryonic cells they shift their position so far to the right that the anti abortion position now looks to be in the middle. And secondly, if the government is so concerned about “killing” a few useless cells, then aborting a baby becomes (in their eyes) all the more dreadful.

I gotta say, it’s clever. Damn clever. If your position is not in the center, move the entire spectrum so that the center has moved.

I have no doubt that if this recent ploy doesn’t work they will move the spectrum even more to the right and outlaw masturbation because that kills millions of innocent sperm every day.

Then I’m fucked!