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The final countdown to Bush fascism has begun!
Salon interviews Chris Hedges, chronic BDS sufferer and author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. (The interviewer is similarly afflicted, having written the equally delusional Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.) The result is hard to beat for concentrated essence of moonbattery. Some samples:. . . The core of this movement is tiny, but you only need a tiny, disciplined, well-funded and well-organized group, and then you count on the sympathy of 80 million to 100 million evangelicals. And that's enough. Especially if you don't have countervailing forces, which we don't. . . . "The New York Times, the LA Times, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the three major broadcast networks, the newsmagazines, Keith Olbermann, Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Murtha, Cindy Sheehan, the UN, Richard Dawkins, Dan Brown, the gay Episcopal bishops, Andrew Sullivan, Rosie O'Donnell, the Dixie Chicks, Jerry Springer, Air America, the French and the EU, Ted Turner, George Soros--we're just too few and far between, and we don't have the money! We can't stop them." . . . It takes time to acculturate a society to a radical agenda, but that acculturation has clearly begun here, and I don't see people standing up and trying to stop them. The Democratic policy of trying to reach out to a movement that attacks whole segments of the society as worthy only of conversion or eradication is frightening. Doesn't it make sense for the Democrats to reach out to the huge number of evangelicals who aren't necessarily part of the religious right, but who may be sympathetic to some of its rhetoric? Couldn't those people be up for grabs? I don't think they are up for grabs because they have been ushered into a non-reality-based belief system. . . . . . . I don't know how much it's apparent, but it's an angry book. Naw! Yer kiddin' aincha? Posted by: Mike 2007-01-11 |
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