guno
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This is what the republican party has become , bible thumping kooks , lunatics, half dead depends wearers and hoveround cowboys
Mad conspiracy theories are nothing new in American politics.
Historian Rick Perlstein’s book “Before the Storm” describes a similar paranoid outbreak in 1963. A California GOP senator complained about an avalanche of “‘fright mail,’ mostly centering on two astonishing, and astonishingly widespread, rumors: that Chinese commandos were training in Mexico for an invasion of the United States through San Diego; and that 100,000 U.N. troops — 16,000 of them ‘African Negro troops, who are cannibals’ (sic) — were secretly rehearsing in the Georgia swamps under the command of a Russian colonel for a U.N. martial-law takeover of the United States.”
Back then it was President John F. Kennedy, an Irish-Catholic Democrat, who afflicted the John Birch Society with fear of The Other. Today, it’s President Obama scaring an Austin-based talk radio and Internet conspiracy theorist called Alex Jones.
Richard Hofstadter’s classic 1964 essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” explains: “I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind.”
Commentary Mass delusions for Republicans - May 10 2015
Mad conspiracy theories are nothing new in American politics.
Historian Rick Perlstein’s book “Before the Storm” describes a similar paranoid outbreak in 1963. A California GOP senator complained about an avalanche of “‘fright mail,’ mostly centering on two astonishing, and astonishingly widespread, rumors: that Chinese commandos were training in Mexico for an invasion of the United States through San Diego; and that 100,000 U.N. troops — 16,000 of them ‘African Negro troops, who are cannibals’ (sic) — were secretly rehearsing in the Georgia swamps under the command of a Russian colonel for a U.N. martial-law takeover of the United States.”
Back then it was President John F. Kennedy, an Irish-Catholic Democrat, who afflicted the John Birch Society with fear of The Other. Today, it’s President Obama scaring an Austin-based talk radio and Internet conspiracy theorist called Alex Jones.
Richard Hofstadter’s classic 1964 essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” explains: “I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind.”
Commentary Mass delusions for Republicans - May 10 2015
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