Ten Things That Terrify Right-Wingers

[Blue_Tires]

These are some of the things that keep American conservatives awake at night.

Modern American conservatism is based on an almost endless series of grievances. Author Thomas Frank coined a term for it: the conservative "plenty-plaint" -- a long and ever-evolving list of personal and cultural gripes dressed up as an ideology.
But there's also fear! And while it spans the breadth of the movement, this is the year of the Tea Party revolt, when the grassroots right, disgusted with the idea of semi-affordable health-care and tepid financial reforms is rebelling against even its own establishment. And the divide between the grassroots base and its leadership extends to the very fears that animate them. As we'll see, the conservative movement's business-attired hacks and the hard-Right tea Party types waving misspelled signs out in the streets have some very different causes for alarm.

So, here are ten of the most interesting things that absolutely terrify Wingnuttia. First, a few terrors of the real hard-core Right. For the Tea Partier, the midterm GOP primary voter, it's not just the anxiety over social change that typifies more traditional conservatism. A broad chunk of the GOP base today is animated by wildly unrealistic terrors -- monsters stalking them as the sun sets, perhaps hovering just beyond their peripheral vision.

1. Government Concentration Camps

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, who's been facing uphill prospects for re-election in Nevada, is breathing a sigh of relief that his newly nominated Republican opponent, Sharron Angle, isn't a typical civil libertarian. According to Talking Points Memo, Angle endorses the views of (and may be a member of) the "Oath Keepers." It's a fast-rising right-wing group "whose membership of uniformed soldiers and police take an oath to refuse orders they see as unconstitutional -- including enforcement of gun laws, violations of states' sovereignty, and 'any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps,'" according to TPM.

http://www.truth-out.org/10-things-that-terrify-right-wingers60369

[davidinalameda]

1. what about teh gays?

no one is scared of us anymore?

we need to try harder!!!

:bounce:

[Skittles]

6. aw, TEH GAYS should have been way up the list

FAIL

[davidinalameda]

7. what?

honey, I am gay

[mrcheerful]

2. Life and life's nasty habit of being unpredictable is their only fear when you get down to the core

That is why they are so willing to give up the reality of freedoms for the illusion of protection. Religions outside of their own brand, brown people, government other then the government of big brother...R's, liberals, and most of all death and illness are all of their fears based on not being able to perceive any future outside of the now, today has to be like yesterday and so does tomorrow.

[NICO9000]

3. These pussies are afraid of their own goddamn shadows

All they have to sell is fear and there are far too many buyers in this country.

:nopity:

[Jim__]

4. The government concentration camp pictures are amazing.

I wonder how many loons actually believe that shit.

[JohnWxy]

5. "plenty-plaint" - a long & ever-evolving list of personal &cultural gripes dressed up as an ideology

great article!

recommended.

But don't tell this to GOP media echo chamber, they want to call this a political "movement" (in this way, they too can participate, be swept up in(it's fun!), the media event! The M$M people love 'events', floods, earth quakes, oil spills, whatever. It gives them something to talk about on tv!!). OF course, the talkiing heads of M$M are no smarter than the goof-ball losers who are being incited and manipulated by the GOP out-'riggers'.

Paris Hilton became a celebrity because she was talked about by enough media types. Kim Kardashian became a celebrity by becoming a amateur porn star (it's more appealing to people to pretend she's not a skank!). Fux (-you) News has taken 'reality tv' to the political arena. Fox news told people, you don't have to think about anything, or KNOW anything ("we will tell you what you think") to be in a movement or to be on tv (...for being part of a 'movement'). Just must make a lot of noise and act the village idiot. People will think you must be sincere to make such an ass of yourself.

Tea-partiers can't articulate what they are FOR, only what they are against! I submit, a 'movement' without objectives is not a movement. All these supposed 'grass' roots, spontaneous exhibitions are as spontaneous as the exhibitions in Soviet Union on May Day. Only in this case they are driven by Fox News and Tea Parry Express (brainchild of GOP operatives). But this is more stuff the M$M will hear (and say) nothing of!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35785.html


Just days after the first widespread tea party demonstrators hit the streets a year ago Thursday, Joe Wierzbicki, a Republican political consultant with the Sacramento firm Russo Marsh + Rogers, made a proposal to his colleagues that he said could “give a boost to our PAC and position us as a growing force/leading force as the 2010 elections come into focus.”


The proposal, obtained by POLITICO, was for a nationwide tea party bus tour, to be called the Tea Party Express, which over the past seven months has become among the most identifiable brands of the tea party movement. Buses emblazoned with the Tea Party Express logo have brought speakers and entertainers to rallies in dozens of small towns and big cities, including one in Boston on Wednesday that will feature former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.


Aided by campaign-style advance work and event planning, slick ads cut by Russo Marsh, impressive crowds and a savvy media operation, the political action committee run by Wierzbicki, Russo Marsh founder Sal Russo and a handful of other Republican operatives has also emerged as among the prolific fundraising vehicles under the tea party banner. Known as Our Country Deserves Better when it was founded during the 2008 election as a vehicle to oppose Barack Obama’s campaign for president, the PAC saw its fundraising more than quadruple after it took the Tea Party Express public in July, raising nearly $2.7 million in roughly the following six months, compared with less than $600,000 in the preceding six months, according to Federal Election Commission filings.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35785.html#ixzz0r3JTcYYl

[Blue_Tires]

8. thanks for that...