How many here have read "Blinded by the Right"? [View All]

[msmcghee]

I am reading it for the third time. I am noticing the way that the author, David Brock, describes his intitial attraction to the conservative cause - and how that morphed over several years into a liberal hating machine with a huge megaphone and millions of $ of RW money behind him. And how he used that weapon long after he had any desire to continue - it just became a habit and it was his "niche" that had to be filled - his image and the expectations of other RW liberal haters who collaborated with him that needed to be maintained.

Whatever caused Brock's hatred of the left - and it was obviously a psychological need to be accepted rather than ideological - I believe the RW ranks are now overflowing with eager young liberal haters, just like David Brock was - all yearning to really trash some liberal cause or candidate or - anything liberal. Most are not connected to the money - they just show up at places like DU and troll like some posters in the current GD thread "The Democratic Party is Finished". Reading that is what got me going this morning.

We have been trashed - and it will continue and probably get worse. And the American people as a whole don't give a shit. They have bought much of the RW swill, because the RW is able to present their swill as a popular uprising against the liberal elite - or some such crap (as in that other thread) and see our feeble struggle against this as just so much politics - like a reality show. They know that it's dramatic, there will be winners and losers - and they know its probably rigged for the benefit of those with the money. But most of them don't really care about the ideas or the people or the lives being trashed.

The RW have tried for years to create a movement - philosophical mini-reformation - glorifying the male values of war, hatred and bigotry. Historians will see this as the biggest, most successful PR campaign in the history of the world. They are not riding along on a wave of history - they built the wave machine - and we're all being swept along with them.

They were making steady headway - Dem pols were not even aware of what was happening (and most still aren't) - steady inroads were made every year against America's traditional liberal values. And America became a bit more more conservative every year - then 911 put them over the top.

As in all reformations - we may just have to wait until enough lives are destroyed and enough of America's sons and dughters are killed - before they (we) see the folly of it all. If history is an indicator that could be a while - unless something really bad happens - like another 911 type event. Civilizations in the throes of reformation are like boys fighting on the playground - one of them has to be thoroughly whipped before they quit.

In the meantime - remember that old TV show that started Walter Cronkite's television career - "You are there"? Well, every day now you know what it was like to be alive during the Crusades.