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The Democrat may no longer believe in God, the Constitution or even
motherhood and apple pie, but he devoutly believes with all the faith
of a 9/11 Truther in the impermeability of steel and of a Neo-Nazi in
the Protocols of the Elders of Zion that somewhere out there
Republicans are sitting in a sealed room and plotting to bring back the
50s.
And if not the 50s, then at least the early 60s.
The left accuses the right of being deeply paranoid. Meanwhile the left
is convinced that every Republican sneeze is a racial putdown of
America's first black president since Bill Clinton.
Forget about looking for Communists under every bed. The proper
progressive never lies down with his or her partner of choice and their
government mandated birth control from the Catholic institution with no
choice in the matter without first checking their privilege and
checking for conservative bigotry.
Sometimes, somewhere in Kentucky or Alaska, a minor Republican
functionary forwards an email depicting ObamaCare as the work of a
voodoo witch doctor and the first lefty to discover it dines out on
that triumphant accomplishment for a year before writing a book about
it. The rest of the time, the McCarthyists of the left have to work
hard to unpack the subtext of the overlay of the puzzle box of a random
remark.
[...]
The sanest liberal of the 21st century makes the looniest member of the
Birch Society in the 60s seem positively grounded in reality.
Conspiracy theories aren't a fringe element in the Democratic Party
now; they're the entire ticket.
The
politics of paranoid hatred is the crutch of mental cripples who
protect the source of their dysfunction by projecting it onto phantom
enemies. It's Hillary Clinton with her unfaithful husband, her list of
enemies and her conviction that the Republicans made him cheat on her
multiplied a million times over. It's the frenzied MSNBC talking head
who sees the N Word everywhere because it's inside him. It's an
Attorney General who pursues racial grudges without ever admitting it
while calling the country "a nation of cowards" on race.
The War on Women, the constant claims of racism (according to
ex-MSNBC'er Martin Bashir IRS was the new "N Word") and the invocation
of class warfare by wealthy residents of entirely white bedroom
communities is a litany of conspiracy theories. The frenzied search for
new IRS and Tiger Woods "dog whistles" that prove the Republicans
really are out to bring back the 50s is the psychological breakdown of
an entire political party taking refuge in political paranoia.
The progressives are reactionaries who can't run on their record and
can't even run on the record of their political opponents. So instead
they run on the imaginary record of their political opponents derived
from reading their minds, unpacking their subtext and then reading a
few tea leaves. [...]
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