Matt Taibbi: Arizona Debate/Republican Disaster: "This is the last stage in any paranoid illness"
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This is justice. What we have here are chickens coming home to roost. It's as if all of the American public's bad habits and perverse obsessions are all coming back to haunt Republican voters in this race: The lack of attention span, the constant demand for instant gratification, the abject hunger for negativity, the utter lack of backbone or constancy (we change our loyalties at the drop of a hat, all it takes is a clever TV ad): these things are all major factors in the spiraling Republican disaster.
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This is the last stage in any paranoid illness. You start by suspecting that somebody out there is out to get you; in the end, youre sure that even the people who love you the most under your own roof, your own doctors, your parents, your wife and your children, theyre in on the plot. To quote Matt Damon in the almost-underrated spy film The Good Shepherd, they became convinced that theres "a stranger in the house."
This is where the Republican Party is now. Theyve run out of foreign enemies to point fingers at. Theyve already maxed out the rhetoric against us orgiastic, anarchy-loving pansexual liberal terrorists. The only possible remaining explanation for their troubles is that their own leaders have failed them. There is a stranger in the house!
This current race for the presidential nomination has therefore devolved into a kind of Freudian Agatha Christie story, in which the disturbed and highly paranoid voter base by turns tests the orthodoxy of each candidate, trying to figure out which one is the spy, which one is really Barack Obama bin Laden-Marx under the candidate mask!
more:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/arizona-debate-conservative-chickens-come-home-to-roost-20120223
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)av8rdave
(10,573 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)Love it.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)That gif is almost 2 megs. Have mercy on us.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Javaman
(62,540 posts)teewrex
(96 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)emulatorloo
(44,274 posts)Thanks so much for posting.
quispquake
(3,050 posts)"The finger-pointing game is a fun one to play, but its a little like drugs you have to keep taking bigger and bigger doses in order to get the same high."
Yup...
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/arizona-debate-conservative-chickens-come-home-to-roost-20120223#ixzz1nJLawac0
Loge23
(3,922 posts)Taibbi nails it - the right has become a cornered, rabid animal.
Hopefully, this is a sign of the last gasp of politically sanctioned sexism, racism, and extremist politics in this country.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)The Republican Party made a Faustian deal with the Religiously Intolerant, the Racists, the Selfish Monied, the Politically Ignorant, the Xenophobes and Nativists...and they haven't a clue as how to break the chains to those factions with which they so willingly bound their party.
This is the coalition they have formed, and breaking it asunder means the destruction of their political party, so they must double down and keep moving down that path until the inevitable happens.
This is just the end stage of the losing side of a demographic shift as their base of Angry White Males is slowly but inexorably becoming a voting minority in this nation, as they are losing their grasp even among that group.
They have no choice but to maintain their coalition of the fringe, and that choice will destroy them.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)that was the horseshit thrown at me last week when I pointed out that AZ is one big desert loony bin.
Ptah
(33,057 posts)Thanks for nothing.
SalviaBlue
(2,918 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,839 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)unpunished, they can be as nutty as they want and still gain voters. I sort of thought that by now the revolutionary american spirit would have led us to accomplish some major retaliation against the Limpballs, Levins, Medveds, and Becks. Hope is dwindling.