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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen the Right turns on America, Commentary from the Right
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/05/19/when-the-right-turns-on-america/Speaking to the National Rifle Associations recent annual conference, NRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre, in describing America, said, Almost everywhere you look, something has gone wrong. You feel it in your heart, you know it in your gut. Something has gone wrong. The core values we believe in, the things we care about most, are changing. Eroding. Our right to speak. Our right to gather. Our right to privacy. The freedom to work, and practice our religion, and raise and protect our families the way we see fit.
He went on to say this: There are terrorists and home invaders and drug cartels and carjackers and knockout gamers and rapers, haters, campus killers, airport killers, shopping mall killers, road-rage killers, and killers who scheme to destroy our country with massive storms of violence against our power grids, or vicious waves of chemicals or disease that could collapse the society that sustains us all. I ask you. Do you trust this government to protect you? We are on our own.
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This kind of rhetoric, which can only incite and never persuade, is alienating to everyone who is not part of the Apocalypse Now crowd. It is also, in deep ways, profoundly unconservative, in good part because it is overwrought and detached from reality. It is also evidence of a backward-looking conservatism that sees how America has changed and laments it rather than a forward-looking conservatism that sees the great promise and opportunities that still exist in America and seeks to take advantage of them.
He went on to say this: There are terrorists and home invaders and drug cartels and carjackers and knockout gamers and rapers, haters, campus killers, airport killers, shopping mall killers, road-rage killers, and killers who scheme to destroy our country with massive storms of violence against our power grids, or vicious waves of chemicals or disease that could collapse the society that sustains us all. I ask you. Do you trust this government to protect you? We are on our own.
..........snip..............
This kind of rhetoric, which can only incite and never persuade, is alienating to everyone who is not part of the Apocalypse Now crowd. It is also, in deep ways, profoundly unconservative, in good part because it is overwrought and detached from reality. It is also evidence of a backward-looking conservatism that sees how America has changed and laments it rather than a forward-looking conservatism that sees the great promise and opportunities that still exist in America and seeks to take advantage of them.
so, how to make so many of the extreme RW'ers see things from this perspective?
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When the Right turns on America, Commentary from the Right (Original Post)
Sheepshank
May 2014
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leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)1. isnt this like yelling fire in a theater
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)3. welll-l-l-l-l-l
I got a link to this article from Freeperville and your statement....damn if it wasn't exactly like that!!!
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Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)4. Well.............Yes and no.
Based on what I know about conservative family members, acquaintences, friends and such, it's an attempt to triangulate. Deep down they agree with all the "this country is going to hell in a handbasket" rhetoric the author bemoans, but they also agree that to say so publicly ( and loudly ) is impolitic and makes them look bad.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)5. Con game.
Every time there's noise out of the right, it's FEAR! PANIC! GIT U A GUN! BENGHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZI!