Orson Scott Card writes obtensibly about the proposed wall between Israel and Palestine, but uses the article to explore what he calls "moral stupidity" by bemoaning the current constitution and positions of his own Democratic party.

He examines a series of recent Democratic positions, point-by-point, bemoaning the "moral stupidity" (immoral + unintelligent) of each stance or action. For example:

Or take the Florida recounts in 2000. We still hear charges of how the Republicans "stole" the election, even though there has not been a credible case made for any stolen votes in the original count. (All the charges have been about "systemic" unfairness.)

But Democrats were openly playing precisely the same games that the Daley machine had always played in the notoriously filthy politics of Chicago -- selective recounts, "helping" non-English speakers make the right choices inside the voting booth, and making calls to elderly voters to make them think they might have cast their vote for the wrong party, so they would raise a furor about a completely non-existent pattern of errors.

In other words, it is a matter of public record that the only people trying to steal an election in Florida were the Democrats -- and yet people who consider themselves honest and intelligent still fail to make the moral distinction between what the Democrats were openly doing and what Republicans were only charged with having done.

Likewise, when it came to the courts, it was the Florida Supreme Court that tore the law to shreds in the effort to allow the Democrats to steal the election. But when the conservative Supreme Court voted to stop the Florida court from stealing the election, that is what we keep hearing about as "the court deciding the election."

If the Left had not been hellbent on tearing down the laws in order to get the outcome they wanted, the case would never have gone to the Supreme Court.

I watched the whole thing myself on C-SPAN, studied the law in question, and came to the same conclusions. Not because I'm a Republican (I'm not, but rather am an independent who voted against Bush in the last election) but because I studied each matter and thought about it.

On point after point, Card comes down precisely where I stand. Yet he considers himself a Democrat, while my own leanings are generally conservative. I think if the Democratic Party he envisions still existed, I might have more respect for (and cast more votes for) such an entity.

The article is well worth a read, especially for it's main exposition on the Palestinian / Israeli situation and (more importantly) how certain individuals react to it. (Thanks to Entre Nous.)