Paranoia Strikes Deep »
Posted By Progressive 2 weeks, 6 days ago in Political OpinionLast Thursday there was a rally outside the U.S. Capitol to protest pending health care legislation, featuring the kinds of things we’ve grown accustomed to, including large signs showing piles of bodies at Dachau with the caption “National Socialist Healthcare.” It was grotesque — and it was also ominous. For what we may be seeing is America starting to be Californiafied.
The key thing to understand about that rally is that it wasn’t a fringe event. It was sponsored by the House Republican leadership — in fact, it was officially billed as a G.O.P. press conference. Senior lawmakers were in attendance, and apparently had no problem with the tone of the proceedings.
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Charlson2 weeks, 6 days ago
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FTA: “The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964),” which reads as if it were based on today’s headlines: Americans on the far right, he wrote, feel that “America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion.”
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"What all this shows is that the G.O.P. has been taken over by the people it used to exploit." -
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Beau78902 weeks, 6 days ago
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That's a separate issue from the one about how the far right exploits paranoia, which motivates the "fascism / Marxism / Nazi / socialist / hates-his-country" labeling that stirs up so much anger from extremists with little evidence to support it.
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But incidentally, Krugman says Obama's job-creation efforts have fallen short because he believes the government didn't spend nearly enough on the stimulus. I'd be surprised if you were defending that point of view.
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albionperfides2 weeks, 6 days ago
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"Senior lawmakers were in attendance, and apparently had no problem with the tone of the proceedings."
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I suppose these "Senior Lawmakers" will reject their Federal Healthcare provisions and Pensions etc etc so they can be at one with the people? Fat chance: they are just hypocrites and why they are not seen as such is the biggest question of all. -
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Progressive2 weeks, 6 days ago
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Here's the direct link:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09krugma...
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