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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
nwithers
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I talked about this with my family in the bad days of 1994, and it seems to be coming all too true (fortunately). Te power of the current Republican movement is based on the idea that working together will allow each member of the alliance to gain such political dominion that any “dirty tricks” performed before that day will be rendered moot by the power of the new “ruling class”. The history of this tactic is obvious with the impeachment of Clinton, and the hairpin turn of “deference to the decider” once their man was in power (through a legal decision that rivals “Dread Scott” in its damage to our legal system).
Here is the fundamental gamble with such an alliance. Once in power, you must be able to make it impossible to challenge your power in any fashion. All three factions failed in tandem to do this. The religo-cons failed to fatally breach the wall between church and state (Terri Schaivo, court packing, gay marriage). The Industrio-cons have failed (partially) to fully implement the K street project where the legislative branch is a stenography pool for vested business interests. Finally, the libertarian/neo-cons failed to execute their grand plan of hegemony over the resources and society of the Middle East, and this is where the real implosion begins. (These are of course hazy boundaries, with much cross pollination, which is what allowed them to work so well together)
All three factions have honed similar skills in “dirty tricks” (instant religious protests, astro-turf campaigns, swift-boating) over the past twenty years, they have been held together by the dream of dominance which has now gone horribly sour. As much as we “evil” progressives have thwarted them, we “lost” after 9/11 (we are re-building, much faster than they think, but that’s another post). How else to understand this failure? Why can’t the “blessed of God” change the world in their image? Obviously the enemy within, which they have been so good at squashing by any means available.
But now there is no “other” to point the finger at, so the only possible other is within. (http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114782325663340794 ). All those nasty, yet so, so, so, effective tricks each faction has learned? How easy, how right, to turn those tools against those who betrayed the cause. The religo-cons will turn agains the libertarian-cons for not bowing before god. Industrio-cons, will turn against the religo –cons for making business more difficult over religious issues. The neo-cons turn against the religo-cons for not being good obedient soldiers in changing the world.
Church protest vs. astro-turf vs. swiftboat……
Boom.
I always love it when you see something that makes you sit back and really think. Making things like this shows the best facets of humanity.
@My Man Godfrey, my personal interperation:
The point is that incomprehensible things happen to us from time to time. The VT massacre, 9/11, the slings and arrows that life flings upon us and we must try to comprehenend the incomprehensible. We look and learn and try to find some way to understand, some "box" to fit it in, to pack it away in some way that make it understandable. Still, even when we manage to box it in, we carry it with us always, our personal burden that shapes the way we are.
Murh.. Muhahaha… Kudos to Salon for getting this turkey to give an interview; as noxious as he is, I’m glad I have a chance to beat Glenn Greenwald to the punch a bit, I imagine he will be able to tear this guy apart much better than I.
Before we start peeling apart the spin and defenses, lets take a look at the man’s history. The Wikipedia bio of Jerome Corsi, member of the Constitutional party (originally called the U.S. Taxpayers Party), which has such august supporters like Pat Buchanan, Bob Smith, and minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist. Lovely company he keeps, old school. “constution in exile” and “anti-UN New World order” paranoids. Read the full Constitutional party entry, it’s pretty hair curling.
In the interest of space and because it’s getting late, I’m just going to give the reality-based translation to the first page of his questions, with a link back to the original page.
What's the book about?
How us pure Americans are going to get our bodily fluids sapped and impurified by those Icky Brown People, and the French, I mean Canadians.
What you seem to foresee, however, is something that would go further than the European Union and actually dissolve the United States.
Evil liberals have destroyed the nations of Europe, who are soon going to soon be Muslim because they didn’t keep out those icky brown people. If we don’t go into full frothing paranoid mode, we won’t be able to invade other countries at will, because that went so well the last time around.
So what's the motive on the part of the American government and American corporations in forming this North American Union? That wasn't much discussed in your book.
The icky brown people (and French) are going to take our jobs and stuff. Never mind we ran a political hit job that handed re-election to the shrub, bosom buddy with the Enron, Wal-Mart, Halliburton, and any other multi-national that was willing to pay up. Never mind that.
See? translating a frothing wingnut is easy, fun for the entire family!
P.S. Couldn't get the links to work. working links on my blog.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
