"The Mindlessness is Total"
At the Downside World News today you can find an article called "Are You Ready for Nuclear War?" Because this article uses spare, pared-to-the-bone language and because its author clearly has his thoughts together and has access to all the facts, it is an unusually gripping read, and also cheering, because it makes you realize that there are still some people in this country, even among Republicans, who care and can see perfectly well through all the smoke and mirrors.
Instead of the excerpt below, I could have chosen any other paragraph or groups of paragraphs from the article, and it would've been equally as informative, interesting, and packing a real punch. The author is an old-line Republican, and here he is speaking of the right-wingers who have taken over his party. He calls them "Brownshirts," a name that was used for the pre-Nazi thugs because of their garb, before the takeover of Germany by A. Hitler and his adherents in the early 1930's. In fact, this article looks just like something a guy like that might write while in a cold, concentrated fury after receiving a particular piece of mail:
I get emails from these Brownshirts and attest that their hate-filled ignorance is extraordinary. They are all Republicans, and yet they think they are conservatives. They have no idea who I am, but since I criticize the Bush Regime and America’s belligerent foreign policy, they think I am a “liberal commie pinko.”
The only literate sentence this legion of fools has ever managed is: “If you hate America so much, why don’t you move to Cuba!”
Such is the current state of a Reagan political appointee in today’s Republican Party. He is a “liberal commie pinko” who should move to Cuba.
The Republicans will get us into more wars. Indeed, they live for war. McCain is preaching war for 100 years. For these warmongers, it is like cheering for your home team. Win at all costs. They get a vicarious pleasure out of war. If the US has to tell lies in order to attack countries, what’s wrong with that? “If we don’t kill them over there, they will kill us over here.”
The mindlessness is total.
How often have we heard, over and over in our own fracases with the Nasties, two of the same incredibly tired propositions that, as related in the excerpt above, the author's "Brownshirts" whipped out against him from their backflaps purely by reflex, which are always resorted to with an absolute "case closed" certainty, as if the numerous possible rebuttals, much less the refutations, can't possibly exist..
The author is Paul Craig Roberts, and he was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan Administration, and also he was an editor for the Wall Street Journal and for the National Review.
You know the modern Republican party has totally failed not only the country but also itself, when it can so thoroughly be nailed to the wall by someone with such impeccable credentials -- and a real talent for plain thought and plain speaking, and in this article he does an astonishing job of putting it all out there.
Instead of the excerpt below, I could have chosen any other paragraph or groups of paragraphs from the article, and it would've been equally as informative, interesting, and packing a real punch. The author is an old-line Republican, and here he is speaking of the right-wingers who have taken over his party. He calls them "Brownshirts," a name that was used for the pre-Nazi thugs because of their garb, before the takeover of Germany by A. Hitler and his adherents in the early 1930's. In fact, this article looks just like something a guy like that might write while in a cold, concentrated fury after receiving a particular piece of mail:
I get emails from these Brownshirts and attest that their hate-filled ignorance is extraordinary. They are all Republicans, and yet they think they are conservatives. They have no idea who I am, but since I criticize the Bush Regime and America’s belligerent foreign policy, they think I am a “liberal commie pinko.”
The only literate sentence this legion of fools has ever managed is: “If you hate America so much, why don’t you move to Cuba!”
Such is the current state of a Reagan political appointee in today’s Republican Party. He is a “liberal commie pinko” who should move to Cuba.
The Republicans will get us into more wars. Indeed, they live for war. McCain is preaching war for 100 years. For these warmongers, it is like cheering for your home team. Win at all costs. They get a vicarious pleasure out of war. If the US has to tell lies in order to attack countries, what’s wrong with that? “If we don’t kill them over there, they will kill us over here.”
The mindlessness is total.
How often have we heard, over and over in our own fracases with the Nasties, two of the same incredibly tired propositions that, as related in the excerpt above, the author's "Brownshirts" whipped out against him from their backflaps purely by reflex, which are always resorted to with an absolute "case closed" certainty, as if the numerous possible rebuttals, much less the refutations, can't possibly exist..
The author is Paul Craig Roberts, and he was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan Administration, and also he was an editor for the Wall Street Journal and for the National Review.
You know the modern Republican party has totally failed not only the country but also itself, when it can so thoroughly be nailed to the wall by someone with such impeccable credentials -- and a real talent for plain thought and plain speaking, and in this article he does an astonishing job of putting it all out there.
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