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phantom power

(25,966 posts)
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 05:39 PM Aug 2015

The Wingnut Base ... was manufactured by the Conservative Movement to win elections

Conservatives built this monster.

It didn’t just wander out of the woods one day, or land here from another planet. The Wingnut Base -- whatever teabagger, Colonial Williamsburg camouflage they’re sporting this week, and however hard the media tries to pretend they aren't who we know they are -- was manufactured by the Conservative Movement to win elections. Made right here in the U S of A out of spare parts left over from the Segregationist South, Right-wing fundamentalism, Bircher paranoia and general Archie Bunker pig-ignorance.

Conservatives built the unholy thing, programmed it, wounded it up and sent it out to do their bidding.

And everyone knows it. David Brooks knows it. David Gregory. Tom Friedman. David Frum. The goofs at the "No Labels" freakshow. The entire GOP Brain Caste.

...

Nothing short of an extinction-level event is going to change the monster's course or ferocity: it is quite mad in exactly the way its designers intended. It has no capacity whatsoever to correct or even recognize its own madness, which means it is never going to recover.

So please stop trying to reason with it.

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2015/08/at-mr-trumps-pandemonium-carnival.html



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The Wingnut Base ... was manufactured by the Conservative Movement to win elections (Original Post) phantom power Aug 2015 OP
The Koch brothers astro turfed the Teabaggers. merrily Aug 2015 #1
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