Verum Serum takes a quote out of the odious Ted Rall’s new book, The Anti-American Manifesto:
…Christian fundamentalists, the millennial end-of-theworlders obsessed with the Left Behind series about the End Times, neo-Nazi racists, rural black-helicopter Michigan Militia types cut from the same inbred cloth as Timothy McVeigh, allied with “mainstream” gun nuts and right-wing Republicans, have been planning, preparing, and praying for the destruction of the “Godless,” “secular” United States for decades. In the past, they formed groups like the John Birch Society and the Aryan Nations. Now the hard Right has a postmodern, decentralized non-organization organization called the Tea Party.
Right-wing organizational names change, but they amount to the same thing: the reactionary sociopolitical force—the sole force—poised to fill the vacuum when collapse occurs. The scenario outlined by Margaret Atwood’s prescient novel The Handmaid’s Tale—rednecks in the trenches, hard military men running things, minorities and liberals taken away and massacred, setting the stage for an even more extreme form of laissez-faire corporate capitalism than we’re suffering under today—is a fair guess of how a post-U.S. scenario will play out unless we prepare to turn it in another direction…
I’m worried about the guy; the bile is obviously just spilling over in his heart. He won’t have to worry about the teabagger fascists taking over as he’ll have a heart attack long before we get ’round to that.
While Rall has always been extreme (stupid, too), he does speak the mind of the left – just more clearly and forthrightly than most of them are willing to go. They do think we’re a bunch of racist, redneck, fascist, hate-filled, bigoted creeps bent on destroying everything not like us. Which is just a bizarre view to hold – if I were like that, my primary enemy, as there are so many more of them than there are liberals, would be Protestants. What do I care about some freaky liberals in San Francisco when right down the street I might have people who deny the Real Presence?
But, I get along with my Protestant brothers and sisters. I even go as far as being enthusiastic for black candidates for office, and have a very high regard for some gay people. Our liberal friends refuse to understand this, because if they ever did, they’d no longer be able to hate us. And if they stopped hating us, they’d have to listen to our ideas, and then either agree with them or come up with rational opposition.
But, as we can see from Rall, “rational” doesn’t fit well with liberalism. Its an entirely attitudinal thing. Its about how you view yourself – and, more importantly, how you view yourself as a wonderful person, no matter if you’ve never done a decent act in your life. Some liberals have, to be sure, but to be a liberal means to feel morally superior even when you’re a complete creep. Rely on it, Al Gore is proud of himself – never loses a wink of sleep over the fact that he has a carbon footprint as large as a coal-fired power plant…he’s a liberal, and therefore wonderful, and there’s an end on it.
There’s not much we can do for the Ralls of this world, other than pray for them. But we must keep in mind this blinding, irrational hatred they feel. It may come out in violence, but it is more likely to just come out in a truculent effort to block us, no matter how clear and necessary are the policies we advocate. It will be unthinking opposition, and thus at times harder to fight (battling crazy people is always hard). But reason will always win over irrationality.
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