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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 03:10 PM Aug 2014

Someone needs to explain the right’s adoration for Vladimir Putin because it’s creeping me out.


Is This How Patriotism Works?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/25/why-u-s-conservatives-love-russias-vladimir-putin/

I voted against George W. Bush in both 2000 and 2004, and I spent most of his presidency actively working against his administration with every tool at my disposal, but I never said or wrote that I would prefer that the country be led by a foreigner or a foreign leader. Not so, for many pundits on the right. Ann Coulter wants Benjamin Netanyahu to be our president, Erick Erickson wants David Cameron to be our president, and Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle would be okay with either Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin being our president.


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_08/is_this_how_patriotism_works051906.php
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Someone needs to explain the right’s adoration for Vladimir Putin because it’s creeping me out. (Original Post) kpete Aug 2014 OP
What's even more creepy is the left's adoration. Coventina Aug 2014 #1
The 'left' adored Saddam too, remember? sabrina 1 Aug 2014 #5
They love to fantasize about America being a dictatorship, kinda like it was under the BFEE. Rex Aug 2014 #2
He's perceived as a tough, white guy. TexasProgresive Aug 2014 #3
Exactly. zappaman Aug 2014 #4
The right hates Putin. To them he's a commie, leftie enemy who the LEFT LOVES. Where does this sabrina 1 Aug 2014 #9
Well, he was white and arguably male tularetom Aug 2014 #11
There you go. n/t TexasProgresive Aug 2014 #12
Very true. Rex Aug 2014 #15
I'm going with this group of replies rock Aug 2014 #24
It sure is treestar Aug 2014 #6
They love authoritarianism and somehow are stupid enough to think it's always with them, for them. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2014 #7
Exactly right. treestar Aug 2014 #8
Some of them never even made it off of the 7th grade playground! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2014 #22
Do you remember when we all went bananas here over Raygun? bemildred Aug 2014 #10
Eeyup. hifiguy Aug 2014 #21
The right hates Putin. former9thward Aug 2014 #13
Giuliani moondust Aug 2014 #14
Here's why some right-wingers love Putin: He's a fascist and they can relate to fascists. Louisiana1976 Aug 2014 #16
For the repugs - Russian trumps black lame54 Aug 2014 #17
Authoritarians Respect And Admire Other Authoritarians Dirty Socialist Aug 2014 #18
Maybe it's that he takes his shirt off a lot, showing his macho chest. lunatica Aug 2014 #19
... probably some control freaks mixed in with that same crowd too, and/or one in the same. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2014 #23
That's one of the characteristics of right-wing politics; admiration for "strong leaders". Spider Jerusalem Aug 2014 #20
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
2. They love to fantasize about America being a dictatorship, kinda like it was under the BFEE.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 03:12 PM
Aug 2014

What else do you expect from a group that gets most of it's funding from Communist China and the Koch brothers?

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)
3. He's perceived as a tough, white guy.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 03:17 PM
Aug 2014

That's what they want. It's why the 27% that was continually loyal to bush like him. They saw him as tough, male and WHITE! He was none of these thing but hey it is perception that counts with some people.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
9. The right hates Putin. To them he's a commie, leftie enemy who the LEFT LOVES. Where does this
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 03:24 PM
Aug 2014

garbage come from? Because one public right wing figure snarks about replacing a Dem president with EVEN a commie from Russia everyone runs with the 'Right loves Putin'??

Every Right Wing moron I have ever met, HATES Russia with a passion and especially Putin. But they WOULD say 'even he' would be better than 'demoncrat'.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
11. Well, he was white and arguably male
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 03:29 PM
Aug 2014

Tough was just an act.

However the liberal media did their job in crafting an image of him as a tough guy so a sizable percentage of idiot Amurkins bought into it.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
7. They love authoritarianism and somehow are stupid enough to think it's always with them, for them. n/t
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 03:22 PM
Aug 2014

treestar

(82,383 posts)
8. Exactly right.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 03:23 PM
Aug 2014

High School macho posturing means more to them than how many people get killed when the world is seen in such a simple and barbaric fashion.

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
10. Do you remember when we all went bananas here over Raygun?
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 03:27 PM
Aug 2014

"The shining city on the hill" and all that right-wing jingo nationalist crap? Well, that's Putin in Russia. And right-wingers everywhere lap that stuff up.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
21. Eeyup.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 04:13 PM
Aug 2014

The low-info jingoists always go for this shit like a honey badger tears into a beehive.

former9thward

(32,025 posts)
13. The right hates Putin.
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 03:40 PM
Aug 2014

It's the Rs who want to go to war with him. Have you been listening to McCain, etc., etc.?

moondust

(19,993 posts)
14. Giuliani
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 03:43 PM
Aug 2014
“He makes a decision and he executes it, quickly. And then everybody reacts. That’s what you call a leader,” Giuliani said.

Today's RW authoritarians would have loved Hitler as well.
 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
20. That's one of the characteristics of right-wing politics; admiration for "strong leaders".
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 04:11 PM
Aug 2014

It's a trait of an ideology that emphasises conformity while at the same time disdaining collective action.

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