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• Friday, March 2, 2007 12:14 PM

  "peaceful, lawful change"

  D. James Kennedy cannot be linked to Rushdooney, because Kennedy always advocates peaceful, lawful change through the ballot box, not militant overthrow.

  So the Bush administration hasn't rolled back civil liberties because it worked through peaceful, lawful change?

  This is the point. Dominionists realize they can't overthrow the gov't. They've wanted to, for 200 years, and now they've figured out how.

  They figured out that they care more than the average person, so they got really organized, started marketing itself, created a parallel world, and is trying to outmarket reality.

  Dominionism and the conservative movement have the same roots ... they can both be traced back to the John Birch Society. The JBS was fringe, it was what Hofstadter wrote about.

  That's why it needs marketing. That's why it attacks everything as "liberal" bias. Science, journalism, history, public schools, universities, ... any person who disagrees with the movement ... as "liberally biased."

  For the movement to succeed it has to revise reality. That's what is going on. You don't think its working? Why did Al Gore, the man who took the lead initiative in legislating the creation of the internet, have that monumental accomplishment COUNT AGAINST HIM.

  Why do more Americans not believe in evolution than the rest of the industrialized world.

  What do you think is going on with the "liberal" media internalizing all the memes of movement conservatism.

  You want to know how we got here ... this is it ... its a war on reality. Marketing is outmarketing reality.

  Last year the number of people who believed Iraq had WMDs and ties to al Qaeda WENT UP.

  That's why we shouldn't be all happy time, yet. The problem, they key essential problem, is that people believed all this bullshit in the first place.

  How has the Intelligent Design movement been defanged? By 1. refuting its nonsense and

  2. Showing via the Wedge Document that the ultimate goal was not to improve science but to destroy it

  David Brock has demonstrated in the Republican Noise Machine that the goal of movement conservatism is not to improve journalisn, but to destroy it,

  Science, journalism ... this is how we understand reality. Democracy does not work without them. They know that, intuitively.

  Its the same reason why Nazis and Communists attacked science and journalism (vis-a-vis whatever their dominant hate ideology was)

  That's what Hannah Arendt meant by the origins of totalitarianism being in the creation of propaganda that can cut the masses off from reality.

  And that's what has been going on.

  —m.b.f.
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