3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The Tea Party, the Debt Ceiling, and White Southern Extremism
By Andy on August 2, 2011
“Contradicting the mainstream media narrative that the Tea Party is a new populist movement that formed spontaneously in reaction to government bailouts or the Obama administration, the facts show that the Tea Party in Congress is merely the familiar old neo-Confederate Southern right under a new label. The threat of Southern Tea Party representatives and [...]
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Malignant Revolutionary Entity
By Andy on July 27, 2011
“These folks aren’t in the business of doing Wall Street’s bidding. They’re in the business of bringing the system down to create their own new order, no different from a Maoist or Leninist revolutionary on the other side of the aisle. It’s a market fundamentalist cult. They are a sizable and growing minority of the [...]
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The GOP Can’t Control the Tea Party
By Andy on July 27, 2011
“the gop made the same mistake that some on the left did in their perception of the tea party – they thought it was a top down, cynical manipulation of people, similar to what the gop has accomplished with the evangelical vote – a demographic that could be farmed for votes without having to deliver [...]
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Wielding Power
By Andy on July 8, 2011
“The only rational thought is that he’s gotten what he wants. That he wanted to protect the torturers. That he wanted to protect the banksters. That he wanted to solidify and increase the powers of an Imperial Presidency. That he wanted Health Care Reform that amounts to little more than a giveaway to the megacorporations [...]
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Pro-War Ideology Connected to Being Shielded From the Human Cost of War
By Andy on June 29, 2011
“[A new study] suggests that many Americans’ aggressively pro-war ideology may fundamentally rely on their being physically shielded/disconnected from the human cost of war. … The researchers analyzed data from the Jennings-Niemi Political Socialization Study of college-bound high schoolers and subsequent interviews of those same high-schoolers from 1965 onward. In the process, they discovered that men [...]
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The American Death Star
By Andy on June 23, 2011
“When you laugh at Michele Bachmann for going on MSNBC and blurting out that the moon is made of red communist cheese, these people don’t learn that she is wrong. What they learn is that you’re a dick, that they hate you more than ever, and that they’re even more determined now to support anyone [...]
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Gay Teen Describes Brainwashing Camp in Utah
By Andy on May 26, 2011
“I started screaming and crying, as in my mind I was sure that these two strangers had broken into my house and were going to abduct me, rape me, kill me, or in some way harm me. They immediately told me that if I did not shut up that they would handcuff me. … I [...]
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Whites Believe Anti-Racism Bigger Problem Than Anti-Black Racism
By Andy on May 24, 2011
Because obviously there’s no racism involving asians, latinos or other immigrant groups: “Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University’s School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. The findings, say the authors, show that [...]
Gallup Poll Charts Marriage Equality Tipping Point
By Andy on May 23, 2011
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Justice Scalia and the Little Black Box
By Andy on May 23, 2011
“I’ve always wanted someone to run a black box experiment with all the SCOTUS justices. Here’s how it would work. Take any case, X. Break it down along ideological grounds… an opinion/ruling … favored a corporation over the consumer or the other way around; or expanded/upheld/restricted civil rights; expanded/restricted government power vs citizen rights, labor vs [...]
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