End-Timers & Neo-Cons: The End of Conservatives

[MSgt213]

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during 1981-82. He was also Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.

I remember when friends would excitedly telephone to report that Rush Limbaugh or G. Gordon Liddy had just read one of my syndicated columns over the air. That was before I became a critic of the US invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration, and the neoconservative ideologues who have seized control of the US government.

America has blundered into a needless and dangerous war, and fully half of the country's population is enthusiastic. Many Christians think that war in the Middle East signals "end times" and that they are about to be wafted up to heaven. Many patriots think that, finally, America is standing up for itself and demonstrating its righteous might. Conservatives are taking out their Vietnam frustrations on Iraqis. Karl Rove is wrapping Bush in the protective cloak of war leader. The military-industrial complex is drooling over the profits of war. And neoconservatives are laying the groundwork for Israeli territorial expansion.

The evening before Thanksgiving Rush Limbaugh was on C-Span TV explaining that these glorious developments would have been impossible if talk radio and the conservative movement had not combined to break the power of the liberal media.

In the Thanksgiving issue of National Review, editor Richard Lowry and former editor John O'Sullivan celebrate Bush's reelection triumph over "a hostile press corps." "Try as they might," crowed O'Sullivan, "they couldn't put Kerry over the top." There was a time when I could rant about the "liberal media" with the best of them. But in recent years I have puzzled over the precise location of the "liberal media."

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=76&ItemID=7056

[jody]

1. Sorry but the battle between the Haves and Have-Nots is eternal. n/t

[garthranzz]

6. Newbie question: What does n/t stand for?

And are there are FAQs lurking out there? :)

[jody]

8. n/t means no content beyond subject. n/t

[Catch22Dem]

2. Posted the same article earlier tonight

It is a GREAT article. Should be required reading for bushbots
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1529983

[TwentyFive]

3. A great article. But one big thing not mentioned.

When liberals had power, they used it to improve people's lives. Govt was used to protect the weak from the poewerful with education, civil rights, etc.

With the GOP, that same power is used to exploit the weak to benefit the powerful.

[DELUSIONAL]

4. Bush warship -- cult like behavior

good article --

In the ranks of the new conservatives, however, I see and experience much hate. It comes to me in violently worded, ignorant and irrational emails from self-professed conservatives who literally worship George Bush. Even Christians have fallen into idolatry. There appears to be a large number of Americans who are prepared to kill anyone for George Bush.

The non-liberal media has created a monster -- bush is an illusion -- he is a useless piece of crap. A lazy frat boy who has had everything given to him and has been supported by his father friends. Without his father's influence -- few people would bother to give him the time of day.

The idiots who adore him and who would kill for him -- and who HAVE killed for him in Iraq and elsewhere -- would turn on him if his carefully crafted image slipped.

How is it that WE can see him for what he is -- while others warship the ground he walks on. Some of his fans are intelligent people and yet they are being duped.

[MSgt213]

5. Are they being duped? Or is it more important to have their kind of man

in the White House?

[DELUSIONAL]

7. One theory is that his supporters are projecting their idea of

the perfect leader onto bush. Basically he is a shallow person -- rather like a screen that people can project the sort of person they want him to be.

Most have no idea who he is -- and I believe I've read articles about polls and people don't know what his position is on many issues.

I believe that his "popularity" is a combination -- some people are being duped (Fox Viewers) and others believe that bush is just like them.

I am amazed how many people think that he is a "man of the people" -- the don't know that his grandfather was a Senator and his family has been rich for generations. "Yes -- but -- his father wasn't rich -- he made it on his own skills, etc." Somehow his wealthy roots doesn't seem to be common knowledge.

[TygrBright]

9. Nail: Head: BANG!!!

>>American liberals called the Brownshirts "conservative," because the Brownshirts were obviously not liberal. They were ignorant, violent, delusional, and they worshipped a man of no known distinction. Brownshirts' delusions were protected by an emotional force field. Adulation of power and force prevented Brownshirts from recognizing implications for their country of their reckless doctrines.<<

"A man of no known distinction."

Ain't that the truth? Unless you count negative distinctions, of course--

disgustedly,
Bright