American Right and Limits of Logic

[marmar]

from Consortium News:



American Right and Limits of Logic
July 19, 2011

American politics is increasingly defined by a struggle that pits religious fundamentalism and anti-government true-belief against rationality and liberalism, with the former combination gaining gradual dominance over the latter. But poet Phil Rockstroh says both sides fail to grasp the coming collapse of today’s political/economic model.

By Phil Rockstroh
July 19, 2011


As of late, Pat Robertson has been waxing apocalyptic regarding mankind’s imminent reckoning with wrathful divinity, while liberals have been sharing scary bedtime stories by the ghostly light of computer screens … telling sleep-banishing tales of Michele (“Crazy Eyes”) Bachmann, now stalking primary states, assailing common sense and chewing the scenery of sanity during appearances on the 24/7 Creature Feature Theatre, otherwise known as, Cable News programming.

Granted, the sense of unease displayed by right-wing, fundamentalist Christians regarding the state of the nation is understandable; although, their attribution as to the origin and cause of the destructive drift of U.S. culture is so far off the mark they would fail to get wet if they fell into a baptismal pool the size of Lake Michigan.

Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Pat Robertson et al, these late-empire zealots of shopping mall, militarism and heterosexual hegemony, harbor a comic, yet mortifying vision of the conditions they believe would bring rebirth and renewal to the nation.

Believing, it seems, all that is good and decent can be salvaged, if only the U.S. would be transformed into an earthly analog of their fantasy of an immaculately scrubbed and deodorized, caucasoid heaven (which, of course, to all others, seems a nightmare world where W.A.S.P. faces are permanently affixed on the whole of multi-visaged humanity — a death mask made of white bread) — a creepy, blood-bereft, restricted country club Hyperborea, sustained by holy militarism, where well-turned-out, obedient children of the Lord await the Second Coming — a cartoon universe deus ex machina — vis-á-vis the arrival of their version of Jesus Christ — who seems to resemble a cross between a muscle-blessed, Hollywood super-hero and an eternally vigilant, sin-scouring Tidy Bowl Man. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2011/07/19/american-right-and-limits-of-logic/

[Demeter]

1. The Only Limit on Logic Is That It Is Untried

in our politics since 1800 or so.

[pscot]

2. We doan got no logic

We doan need no stinking logic..

[bemildred]

3. Our very own cargo cult, is what we have.

:thumbsup:

[certainot]

4. there is no inevitability, and the reason the computer and internet connectivity didn't improve the

last 20 years is that what palin and bachman symbolize, and why they even hit the limelight, is that reagan killed the fairness doctrine and the left looked the other way while the right bought up a radio monopoly and used it to create an alternate reality that the left can't see being made and only reacts to after it has already been pounded into the earholes of 50 million a week.

palin was chosen to give limbaugh an excuse to finally get behind mccain, announced minutes before his friday show before the GOP convention. without his blessing the convention would have been a terrible disaster. katey couric should have asked her who she listened to instead of what she read. teabaggers are really just dittoheads gathered in a group, out of the radio closet, led astray because rove lost central control of them when he lost the white house.

and they are still viewed as a popular movement instead of the ten percent they represent because they have the loudest soapbox in the country and because the left continues to ignore them, because it gives them a headache to listen to it.

and the only reason we're at this place now is the same reason we didn't get health care reform and won't get election or media or drug reform- the left ignores the radio.