-By Warner Todd Huston
Like most of the leftist illiterati in the U.S., trash novelist Erica Jong has revealed symptoms of what appears to be a mental nervous breakdown over this election. In an interview to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Jong fretted that an Obama loss would “spark the second American Civil War” and also that his loss would cause “blood to run in the streets.” She also admitted that she was experiencing a “paralyzing terror” about the upcoming election. It seems that those most mentally disturbed by this election inhabit the American far left, revealing a seeming delicately balanced mental state — or maybe I should say an unbalanced one.
Jason Horowitz of the New York Observer brings us Jong’s overwrought blather and also notes that Jong seems to think the same worries are being echoed by many of her jet-setting comrades. Jong notes that Jane Fonda, Naomi Wolf, Ken Follett and others have agreed with her that the world will end if the messiah isn’t elected.
Horowitz translates what he calls “the more spirited quotes” from Jong’s Italian interview: