The laws that allow private citizens to legally possess assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips reflect an absurd disconnect between ideology and humanity.
The sad thing is that the Republicans have been able to take the "1950s or even a 1920s sensibility" and wrap it into an absurd, ahistorical corporatist ideology that distorts what I tend to think of as a quite legitimate fear of rapid societal change into this awful talk of liberty and socialism that really has no place at all in our discourse.
Pearson (1994: pp. 33 34) for instance views the description of Nietzsche's political thought as fascist, or Nazi ideology as "absurd".
Indeed, Will went so far as to place blind ideology to these absurd principles over party, criticizing both George Bush's $168B stimulus in 2008, and Barack Obama's $787B stimulus in 2009.
While his contemporaries were turning to religion or ideologies to escape the absurd, they were also turning to, well, cars.
The mysterious part of totalitarianism's appeal — and here we return to the Problem of the Loyal Henchmen — is that its official ideology can be, and usually is, absurd on its face, and known to be absurd by the leaders who preach it.
If there is anyone who would still advocate for unimpeded access to guns for all on the basis of ideology despite such an extreme (and admittedly absurd) epidemiology, there are names for it.
When you pursue any ideology to its logical end, one sees how absurd virtually all ideologies are in themselves, except as interesting academic exercises.
The goal is not to defend the absurd idea of young-earth creationism, but rather biblical literalism, the ideology from which fundamentalists draw their strength.
White nationalist veganism can sound somewhat absurd, but it also shows how complex and deeply rooted this ideology is, and how it can appeal to a variety of different audiences.
