09-20-2016, 09:48 PM
(09-20-2016, 06:49 PM)Bad Dog Wrote: Phyllis Schlafly lived in Alton IL. That's pretty close to perdition.
If there had been a nuclear war (she co-authored a book called "Strike From Space", a missile gap hysteria piece), she lived just north of a huge primary target: The Wood River Oil Refineries. Chances of survival: less than 5%. Additionally, she would have caught a thousand rads from strikes on Lambert Field and Downtown. Southerly winds would have brought her the radiation from Scott AFB, a MAJCOM HQ. Ground burst, big warhead. All due to be hit by both the Russians and the Chinese.
Her time is over. But we have more nutters because of her.
Ironic, huh? Had there been a nuclear war, then she would have experienced a literal Hell in one of the most obvious urban targets. Military base, transportation hub, oil refineries, chemical industry...
I'd say that she had her priorities all wrong about dangers to America.
Oh, well. She did live to 92, and she got to see much of what she dreaded come to pass. Maybe David Duke might live long enough to greet...the half-black child of one of his granddaughters? I have no idea whether whether she was simply a shill and a useful idiot or a mastermind of political reaction. If the former she is simply pitiable. If the latter, evil.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.