Rove knows about hatred and appeals to it as the article concludes "Finally, the right-wing attacks have a psychological component. George Lakoff's Moral Politics observed that conservatives and liberals have different
worldviews. The conservative view, the "Strict Father" model, is rule based:
"Children are taught to respect and obey their parents and the rules they espouse. Conservative messages are framed from a rules-based worldview that encourages absolutist, "concrete operational" thinking. Obama is not a legitimate President because he didn't follow the rules about citizenship.
What must happen? The article concludes "Liberals must wage their own perpetual political campaign and use it as a vehicle to counter the vicious right-wing attacks. There has to be a liberal message machine that on a daily basis battles for the hearts and minds of average Americans.
Another article "The Mindless Class: The Left's Evil Twin at
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print/23961/
attacks the Right proclaiming it is "deprived as it is of originality, creativity, and the ability to put a logical thought or a coherent sentence together, readily embrace marginally demented spokesmen who are given the power to reach millions by the corporate media, people like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. These surrogates mirror the frustration and fear of the mindless class who get a fleeting sense of belonging and power as they channel their own destructive anger into a larger destructive force.
The Republican Party serves the interests of a tiny percent of Americans but gets around 50% of the vote in every election. The great majority of those who vote Republican are voting against their own welfare. If not for their intellectual emptiness, they'd likely be part of us.
Who are these people? They are people who will attempt to blame their masters for their crimes, but as the article concludes "Most of today's tea party participants are mini, mindless, Adolph Eichmanns. If their tactics, abetted by media collusion, successfully promote their negative agenda on health care, they will have accomplished the nearly impossible task of winning on a position that makes them losers.
The Nuremburg war crimes tribunal, standing in for civil society, refused to accept the idea that people can escape responsibility for their actions by blaming the group. The court did not regard the refusal to think a viable
defense. Each criminal was punished alone. But his victims were still dead.
The radical right isn't playing games. It has caused an elementary school's principal to receive a death threat over a song praising Obama. It has reached the point where the wimpiest of our society is getting attacked.
The article "Fox News altered ˜Obama praise' story to exclude ˜death threats' at
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/fox-news-deleted-mention-of-death-threats-against-principal/
describes this situation and deals with how FOX censored the information to the GOP's advantage.
The GOP, as Limbaugh stated "wants Obama to fail . That means all of his policies--including improving health care, they would do anything to prevent from succeeding. We've seen all of the anti-Obama rhetoric and we've seen people going to town hall meetings with concealed and unconcealed weapons. Let's face it. The GOP hate mongering has riled up their apathetic base to a fevered pitch. This is a dangerous time.
That is past any conception of decency, yet the leaders of the GOP aren't calling the attacks off. If violence erupts then the GOP will have done much more than gain a few seats in an election or destroy Obama's administration. They will have reduced our country to a shambles. What does that say about the GOP leaders and their robotic followers?
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