Things Everyone Should Read – Richard Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” »
Posted By gbudavid 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Political OpinionThe essay is a bit dated; Hofstadter says there’s “something to be said… for the nativist desire to develop in North America a homogeneous civilization” in reference to anti-Catholic conspiracy theory (don’t ask, I don’t want to know what he means).
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akarra1 month, 4 weeks ago
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fta [Hofstadter on the John Birch Society] - "Close attention to history wins for Mr. Welch an insight into affairs that is given to few of us. “For many reasons and after a lot of study,” he wrote some years ago, “I personally believe [John Foster] Dulles to be a Communist agent.” The job of Professor Arthur F. Burns as head of Eisenhower’s Council of Economic Advisors was “merely a cover-up for Burns’s liaison work between Eisenhower and some of his Communist bosses.” Eisenhower’s brother Milton was “actually [his] superior and boss within the Communist party.” As for Eisenhower himself, Welch characterized him, in words that have made the candy manufacturer famous, as “a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy”–a conclusion, he added, “based on an accumulation of detailed evidence so extensive and so palpable that it seems to put this conviction beyond any reasonable doubt.”
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noahjw121 month, 4 weeks ago
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The quote about the right looking for 'treasonous plots' says it all, I think. Where the majority of people feel that there should be a healthy debate between the left and right - and that the majority of people aren't just one or another - there is a very vocal right-wing minority right now that sees any disagreement with its view as treason. They aren't debating issues, they are in the middle of a 'cultural war'; Obama isn't a middle-left politician they disagree with, he is a far left demagogue out to make America a communist state. You would have to go outside the mainstream media to find comparable views on the left. for the right, you just have to turn on Fox.
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