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Why Conservatives Chose Nuttiness
http://www.nationalmemo.com/lyons-mass-conservative-delusion/Why Conservatives Chose Nuttiness
May 9th, 2012 7:00 am Gene Lyons
Following the comprehensive failures of President George W. Bush, conservatives faced a hard choice: rethink or go crazy. For too many, the election of Barack Obama appears to have made it, so to speak, a no-brainer. Millions have chosen the comforts of delusion, envisioning the ordinary give and take of politics in a democracy as an apocalyptic struggle between good and evil.
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But it took the economic catastrophe caused by George W. Bushs policies followed by the election of President Obamanot merely a black man, its important to note, but a black Democrat with a foreign-sounding nameto bring that paranoia to epidemic proportions.
In consequence, longtime GOP congressional aide Mike Lofgren wrote last year in explaining his resignation, the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.
In practical terms, for Obama to succeed where Bush had manifestly failed also had the potential to reduce the GOP to a powerless bloc of neo-Confederate whiners for a generation. So Obama had to fail at all costs.
Sometimes its appeared as if the president himself was the only man in Washington who didnt grasp the irrational zeal of his GOP rivals. Has his vision of himself as a transformative figure, his sheer narcissism, I wrote two years ago made him confuse the rough-and-tumble of Washington with the genteel precincts of the Harvard Law Review?
Alas, crazy cant be reasoned with, only defeated.
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Why Conservatives Chose Nuttiness (Original Post)
babylonsister
May 2012
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liberal N proud
(60,349 posts)1. We have not been able to reason with republicans for a long time
This just closes the loop, crazy is as crazy does.
raccoon
(31,130 posts)2. Thisi is a keeper: "crazy can’t be reasoned with, only defeated." recd nt
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)3. Yeah I like this. Thanks