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What the American Right Looks Like in 2013
__________ The above image is of a ouroboros (a serpent biting its tail). Nothing gets in. Nothing gets out. It’s why the right is so goofed up in the United States right now. Its epistemic closure divorces it from reality. And … Continue reading
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Tagged America, conservatism, epistemic closure, hannah arendt, ideology, ouroboros, Red State, right wing, rush limbaugh
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Onward American Theocrats, Marching As To War
A preacher introduces Rick Santorum at a rally in Louisiana: “We don’t worship Buddha; we don’t worship Muhammad; we don’t worship Allah. We worship God; we worship God’s son, Jesus Christ!” Red meat.
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Tagged America, atheism, Buddha, conservatism, Jesus, religion, rick santorum, right wing, stupidity, theocracy
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Right Ring: Perry-Bachmann 2012?
The Herderian religious conservative governor of Texas, Rick Perry, at the recent Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, appears to have wowed the Christian fundamentalist dominated crowd. This is from NBC News: Of all the speakers of the three-day confab, Perry was … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, America, feminism, fundamentalism, gay rights, michelle bachmann, Republicans, rick perry, right wing, rush limbaugh
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Is the Drudge Report Jeffersonian Liberal or Machiavellian Illiberal?
Andrew Sullivan today concisely lays out the difference between a liberal discourse and an illiberal one: [Y]ou help me – through error and insight – to get closer to the truth sooner than if I were trying to understand the … Continue reading
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Tagged America, dialogue, discourse, Drudge Report, Machiavelli, right wing, rush limbaugh, Thomas Jefferson
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Sarah Palin Shows Disdain for a Middle Class Teacher
In the following clip, Sarah Palin doesn’t even try to conceal her contempt for a teacher (that is, someone devoted to developing the life of the mind and a love of books in her young charges). It’s as if Sarah Palin were saying to this … Continue reading
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Tagged America, conservatism, education, learning, Republicans, right wing, rush limbaugh, Sarah Palin, stupidity, teachers
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Are Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity Religious Phonies?
. Some people think that Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity are sincere believers in God, and they take them at their word when they call themselves Christians. I don’t. I think that all three of them, in their religious … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, conservatism, far right, Fox News, fox noise, glenn beck, Jesus, religious right, right wing, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity
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Tea Partier Sharon Angle wants to abolish the Department of Education, end Social Security and Medicare, and get the United States out of the United Nations
And she’s just won the Republican primary in Nevada. Harry Reid’s camp has to be smiling about this:
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Tagged America, Democrats, harry reid, health care, Nevada, Politics, Republicans, right wing, sharon angle, social security, tea baggers, tea partiers
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Conservative Brick Throwers and Tim Pawlenty: Did Tim Pawlenty Call on Republicans to Smash Federal Government Building Windows?
“Conservative” paired with “brick thrower” would appear to be an oxymoron. But not among contemporary American conservatives. And at CPAC recently, Tim Pawlenty seems to have called on conservatives to engage in acts of violence against the federal government’s buildings that eerily anticipated … Continue reading
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Tagged America, authoritarianism, Ayn Rand, brick throwers, conservatism, fundamentalism, health care reform, right wing, terrorism, tim pawlenty
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Entry Level Shout Radio Job Openings: Only Malignant Narcissists Need Apply?
In the Wikipedia article on “malignant narcissism” (a phrase coined by Erich Fromm in 1964), the list of symptoms associated with it struck me as rather parallel to the traits that you tend to encounter when dialing into right-wing shout … Continue reading
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Tagged glenn beck, malignancy, Michael Savage, narcissism, Politics, psychology, religion, right wing, rush limbaugh, shout radio
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Fox News 101: What Every Authoritarian Knows
Hermann Goering to Captain G. Gilbert, Nuremberg, 1945: “Naturally the common people don’t want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country … Continue reading
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Tagged authoritarianism, fascism, fascists, Fox News, patriotism, populism, Republican party, right wing, rush limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity
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