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Posted By bruhaha 7 months, 4 weeks ago in Political NewsLately I’ve been consuming as much conservative media as possible (interspersed with shots of Pepto-Bismol) to get a better sense of the mind and mood of the right. My read: They’re apocalyptic. They feel isolated, angry, betrayed and besieged. And some of their “leaders” seem to be trying to mold them into militias.
At first, it was entertaining — just harmless, hotheaded expostulation. Of course, there were the garbled facts, twisted logic and veiled hate speech. But what did I expect, fair and balanced? It was like walking through an ideological house of mirrors. The distortions can be mildly amusing at first, but if I stay too long it makes me sick.
But, it’s not all just harmless talk. For some, their disaffection has hardened into something more dark and dangerous. They’re talking about a revolution.
Some simply lace their unscrupulous screeds with loaded language about the fall of the Republic. We have to “rise up” and “take back our country.” Others have been much more explicit.
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Goppy7 months, 4 weeks ago
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You gotta understand where the Modern Christian Conservative is comin from.
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We go to church to elevate our blood levels.
I got lotsa friends at my church here in Ocala ... (the most bee-u-tee-ful place in America) ... and they useta go to the Catholic church or the Presbyterian Church.
They said they got bored on accounta all the preacher did was talk bout peace, bein accountable, social justice, read passages from teh Bible ... (the new testimint) ... hold hands and sing.
What most annoyed them though was that the teachins from the BIBLE dint match up with their POLITICAL perswasions.
For instance - Cletus thinks that Goerge W. Bush shouldnta stopped at Iraq. He says GW shoulda invaded Iran and North Korea too! Kick that ole Axis of Ebil in the rear end.
But the preacher at them other churches talked bout PEACE and how good peace is.
I suppose you can guess what them preachers thought bout Torturein them enemy combatants.
That just dont do it for PATRIOTIC Americans liek us Christian Cosnervatives. We liek war. And the torture thing was just liek addin sprinkles to our whippy cream on our pancakes. It just gets our blood to pumpin!
Poeple need that kinda stuff to know we are alive.
We believe in PASSIUN. The passiun that is equal to our massive self loathin at bein the cause of Jesus bein naild to the Cross.
See, it was our sins that put Jesus on that cross.
Our preacher tells us at every opportunity taht we are no good sinners who are goin strait to hell.
As such ... why would we want to watch ... say Bill Moyers with his dispassionate observations and calculations?
Dont make no ding dang sense!
We want Sea Shanty Hannity tellin us the world is comin to an end!
THATS what we want to hear!!
I says ... AMEN HANITY!!
What you libbies always dint get bout us Christian Conservatives is this ... we have no fear for the End Times.
We LIEKED GW PRECISELY cause we anticipated he was goin to screw the pooch.
And he came pretty darn close.
Now we got HUSSEEN Obama ... and hes tryin to FIX everythin.
See ... no more opportunity for cataclysm. WE HATE THAT!
Well ... I gotta go ... Im makin some signs for our Sunday march tomorrow. Right after we watch FOX in the mornin ... we are hopin to get wipped (whipped?) up into a lather and then we are gointa march down Main Street protesten Obama.
My sign says "We dont want no Moslim runnin th White House".
My wifs sign says "Bring Back TORTURE ... Bring Back Bush".
My sones says ... "I dont know these poeple".
I asked him what hes tryin to say with that but I couldnt understand what he said.
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DarkWizard7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Well Goppy,
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If only the real Christian conservatives could be as funny as you instead of so scary serious about the sentiments you presented.
Unfortunately, being a modern day Christian conservative means to do things in the name of your religion that contradict the teachings of Jesus.
They know in their hearts that Jesus would change his mind about all that yucky peace and love stuff if he was around today to see how different things are. I guess they don't believe that Jesus was resurrected and that God is watching or maybe they'd believe the Bible really was the word of God. -
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Endoscopy7 months, 4 weeks ago
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There goes Goppy telling his lies again. Talk about twisting facts and trying to make believe it is just humor. What he does is tell lies and the "humor" has poison in it trying to make people think that is really what a Christian conservative thinks. Poor Goppy. So sad that is what he believes.
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Why all of the lies Goppy. Is truth so hard for you to say? It becomes obvious that you really do not understand what Christianity is all about. Almost every line is incorrect. The only one you have correct is, "See, it was our sins that put Jesus on that cross." Then you say the opposite of what that means. Very good indication that you really do not understand.
Why the lies Goppy?
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DarkWizard7 months, 4 weeks ago
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FTA - "My read: They’re apocalyptic. They feel isolated, angry, betrayed and besieged. And some of their “leaders” seem to be trying to mold them into militias."
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Charles Blow has it correct. Add to this that the Republican Party feels empowered and entitled to act the way they do because of 30 years of shoving their philosophies in to every nook and cranny possible. They've convinced themselves that they are the only representatives of the American Spirit and only "their way" can save America from itself.
They are delusional and dangerous. These kooks are the real enemy combatants that all of America should be worrying about.
What the Republican Party (should be Neocon Party) doesn't get is that the "majority" of "American" people have resoundly voted against them in two consecutive election! This is a statement! By the People! The message: "We The People" are tired of this dangerous band of lunatics pushing their moronic agenda of apocalyptic destruction down our throats! These pretenders are not my father's Christians, they are not fiscally responsible, they are not representing the Constitution or We The People in a way that makes America a better place to live, or safer, or prepared for the future!
I await those negs and blundering comments from the wacko patrol! Bring it on!-
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Goppy7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Man Alive!
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You sure are fired up today, DarkWizard.
You might just swing some of my fellow Christian Cosnervatives into your way of thinkin.
But of course, they would have to reject the religion of Welfare for the Wealthy ... keepin kids from getting health care ... and the mostest favorite of all sacraments ... callin all media the instrument of the Librual Debil ... ... ... so sayeth our very own Saint Ann Coulter ... on her numerous mainstream media appearances.
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OncejesterwasI7 months, 4 weeks ago
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These Republicans I see in congress today are not the Reps of Ronald Reagan. Nor are these demacrats the Dems of my 89 year old grandmother. She's voted Demacrate her whole life and allmost voted Republican in this last election. What she has seen our government tuning into in these last several weeks is allmost sending her into the gave after my grandfather. She watches the news these days and just shakes her head in disgust and walks away.
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I have a feeling that if she makes it to the next election, she might not vote Demacrat again.
I wonder how many other staunch old Dems might not like what they are seeing happen before their eyes.
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jordan117 months, 4 weeks ago
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"strong language can poison weak minds," pointed out Bill Maher. Quite true of course, as we've seen by the results of weak minded people following CONS like lemmings. And of course knowing that some Americans are weak minded, the CONS feed their unbelievable immaturity with sound bites all day long, 24/7. That's their base, and they play them well.
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fishifanb7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Kinda like the Bozo who shot 5 cops in Pittsburgh today because he was sure Obama was gonna take his AK-47 away. That sure convinced me that HIS rights need protecting.
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He no doubt got his ideas from these right-wing blowhards who spout this Sh*t. Will they be held accountable for inciting this violence?
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ChefEOD7 months, 4 weeks ago
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I really don't know where you folks live or who it is you run with that you consider, or they call themselves, Christian conservatives but the folks you describe are as foreign to the Christian conservatives in my life as someone born & raised in Savanna is different from a native of Milwaukee.
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Goppy7 months, 4 weeks ago
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I hear ya.
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As a resdient of Ocala having growed up in Tennessee ... I can only speak for the Christian Cosnervatives between Florida and Tennessee.
Of course ... every church I go to tells me Im gointa hell if I vote Democrate ... on accounta abortion.
Course, thats basically a cover ... the real reason the preachers want us to vote Republican is on accounta there is a massive effort to keep children from getting access to health care ... liek kids have in every other industrial country.
Thats why Red States is Red ... cause the citizens are so red faced with anger that somebody wants to help children get access to health care.
Funny.
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donald517 months, 4 weeks ago
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Chief.... read Dean's book, Conservatives Without Conscience, and see that you are only deluding yourself. Most, if not all, the evangelicals (which includes an all too high proportion of folks who profess to be conservative christians) have the same profile as that developed on the followers of Hitler and mussolini!
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Like Cheney, who still professes Sadam WMD right up to when we invaded too, don't cha? Yes, deluded!
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donald517 months, 4 weeks ago
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The title reminds me why the right wingers and the NRA are in bed... and why they also wanted MacArther to cross the Yalu and Patton to continue WW2 by attacking the Russians with his Corps!
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Also, why 90% of the automatic weapons in Mexican drug dealing hands came from America... fine job repugs and Faux Fox Facts! -
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lovemylibs7 months, 4 weeks ago
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My hope is that these people never put down their pitchforks and start a group called The Weathermen, start making bombs, plant these bombs at several locations like police stations and the Capitol building and the Pentagon, advocate anarchy, start fires at the homes of New York state supreme court justices, try to break drug creators out of prison, be rehabilitated in the eyes of liberals, become Citizen of the Year in Chicago, get on the cover of Newsweek for being mistreated and return to normal society. Those kind of people are heroes, not potential problems, aren't they?
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donald517 months, 4 weeks ago
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love, repug presidents would pardon them anyway.... like for Watergate, Iran Contra and Plamegate.... repug corruption and pardons over three different adminstrations now! Break the law for the repugs, get pardoned and become a hero to the right... like Ollie North or Scooter... the only party with multiple convictions at the cabinet level in multiple administrations - the terrorist party of America and the world - the REPUGS!
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Georgia507 months, 4 weeks ago
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"Lately I’ve been consuming as much conservative media as possible (interspersed with shots of Pepto-Bismol) to get a better sense of the mind and mood of the right. My read: They’re apocalyptic."
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Liberal filth created a film dramatizing the assassination of President Bush. Not that your liberal "openmindedness" would allow you to actually contrast that to your observation of conservatives above, but aren't you the least bit embarrassed that your ilk have already bested anything the right has done?
And that is let alone Bush NEVER made veiled threats of pitchforks to major business leaders the way Marxist filth did to bankers at the White House AFTER forcing them to accept bailout money they didn't want, AFTER creating the bonus controversy, and AFTER stoking among the public the very pitchfork anger to which Marxist filth referred.
Do you know what we call Marxist filth in a suit?
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Goppy7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Fascist America Hater.
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Hey ... I just tell it how I see it.
But be careful ... people liek you can get trampled by the Rabid Ideology being promoted by the Right ... you never know when the crazies turn on their own.
Just a 'head's up' ... the Right Wing are about as nutty as you will ever see ... just look at that Pittsburgh shooter fellow.
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And remember - The Right Wing Media drove him to shoot those police.
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DarkWizard7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Georgia50,
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The real problem with your views are the same problem most right-wing thinking people have, you throw out terminology and philosophical views without realizing the yen-yang relationship between those you oppose and the one you identify with.
Another facet of your view is in wanting to be hurtful by accusing liberals of being communistic or socialistic when real they are neither. Liberals are true democrats...those that believe in democracy. Conservatives believe in a republic, hence republicans. If you believe democracy to really be communism or socialism, which are very different btw, then you set yourselves up as the polar opposite and must then admit that you either really believe in nazism or fascism.
You see the difference between liberals and conservatives is a philosophy of live and let live without exclusions based on race, gender, sexual orientation, color, or religious/non-religious affiliation. Conservatives are very exclusive and believe the rights of the individuals within their exclusive group. However, anyone NOT of their group should be carefully monitored and suspected of any number of characteristics which may be a threat to the exclusive group. The rights of anyone NOT in this exclusive group can also be negated without due process because of the conservatives' double standard of American citizenship.
Basically, Christian conservatives have never been about democracy, but about the restriction of freedoms. This philosophy is contradictory to the beliefs of the Founding Fathers and to the principles of democracy.
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