Interesting take on who populates the Right - NY Times Book section

Last page. Described the lot of them as those males who were essentially shunned in high school and college - and the women who were attracted to them (incapable of creative thought, scared to death, attracted to a world with no change). And when they find each other, they have a common message to reach those who feel similarly persecuted (like I suppose much of our brain dead, lazy society finds themselves to be these days, put to sleep by an incurious media focused on the misbehaving elite).

Very interesting take. Certainly describes Tucker, Rove, Jennings, Brooks, Coulter, etc.

How true. My God, I remember having that as my sigline myself, back in 2001 when I was very much a "Cassandra". I KNEW there was a good chance something like this would result, even then. It's all archived on DU. Even here, especially back then, talk like that was likely to get one labelled a nutty tinfoilhatter. You know. You were here.

So: Doomed to be disbelieved, too. Right up until the very end, by the vast majority of Amerikan Imperial Subjects.

Oh, and by the way :hi:. It is very nice to see you on DU again.

Why do republicon Homelanders HATE America?

Just a suggestion: sissyhawks is a better term for the reTHUGs who worship war (as long as they don't have to 'serve') - they are the boss class, after all! :sarcasm:

and the other republicon Homelander Chickenhawks

I so often find that Republicans are people who didn't get there way at some point it their life, and they are so selfish and inflexible that they are going to align themselves with people in a similar permanent state of hate.


I don't like their hateful ways so I have learned to simply avoid them.

From http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/books/review/Metcalf-t.html?pagewanted=print

"August 5, 2007

The Road to Rightville, By STEPHEN METCALF

'... one thing I am not, and never will be, is a conservative. The recent essay anthology �Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys� (Threshold Editions, $23) has given us liberals a chance to think about why, even in our calcifying stodginess, American conservatism remains a nonstarter for us, a stack of loyalty oaths we�d never be tempted to sign. ...

...the comforting solecisms flow forth unregulated. When the left is being idealistic, it is na�ve, utopian, technocratic and meddling. When the right is being idealistic, it is idealistic. Thus Lyndon Johnson�s war on poverty reveals the left to be hopelessly overreaching, as David Brooks assures us, while George W. Bush�s war in Iraq "is one of the noblest endeavors the United States, or any great power, has ever undertaken."

Democrats fail essentially; Republicans fail incidentally. Conservatives have been playing this game of "heads I win, tails you lose" for roughly a generation. Ever since Ronald Reagan twitted Jimmy Carter with "there you go again," the American right has carried itself with a swagger, confident the crowd will have its back. ...

Here we near the answer to our riddle: how privileged college graduates, while fronting for the interests of corporations and the rich, speak the language of angry populism, and with such depth of conviction. ... In Rich Lowry�s essay, the point is finally driven home. "If high school had been an ape colony, we would have been those antisocial unattached males lingering on the fringes, envying the dominant males with their mates."

To be genuinely humiliated is to know how to tap into the humiliations of others. Rejecting tout court a culture of cool that prevails against him, a certain sort of person turns to campus politics. Because these conservatives were, by and large, low-status males (or the feminism-disdaining women who loved them) in high school and college, they know instinctively how to connect with the culturally dispossessed. And so it was that the workers of the world did unite, but with the bow-tie-wearing nerds at the Cato Institute. Ad hominem? Juvenile? Needlessly provocative? Maybe I could turn right after all.'

Read it and weep (it would be so funny if it weren't so sad!)

psychologically into a hysterically irate mob that stopped vote counting for Gore in Miami. After the "election" and sophistical USSC decision that put Dubya in the White House, the Washington Post traced the handsome rewards some of the "rioters" garnered.

Remember this photo? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31074-2005Jan23.html

"If high school had been an ape colony, we (republicon Homelanders) would have been those antisocial unattached males lingering on the fringes, envying the dominant males with their mates."

To me that sounds like a Connecticut preppy cheerleader C student who pretends to be a Texan and then deserts his National Guard unit to go sniff cocaine, and then sit on his ass reading "My Pet Goat" after having been told twice on 9/11 that America was being attacked. Hmmmm? No wonder Commander AWOL and Dickie "Five MILITARY DEFERMENTS" Cheney are such heros to the freeper republicon Homelanders.

I was shunned like a leper in HS..

And I'm anything but conservative now forty years later.

There's more to it than that.