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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
That anyone at all sees this person as viable as the potential leader of the USA is just so profoundly sad. I feel that people like Palin - the Republican base, (really??) - are addicts to some kind of hate-candy; 'Jesus is my savior and I get to hate, too!' And somehow that never seems dissonant to them. The creepiest thing I've seen since Palin was named is the film of her at her old church (@Huffington Post). She seems like a gushy twelve year old - not even an adolescent's maturity level, but a child's - who's never even thought through what humility might mean in a mature relationship to God. Altemeyer's definitely nailed this as authoritarianism, but there's more. There's the angry, spoiled child's tantrum, the selfishness of the bully. The Republican base is apparently where America's little not-so-christian haters go to not feel so alone. Ugly.
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
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