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[Ya-ta Boy]

This is a fairly lengthy discussion of what we've been seeing work itself out on TV the last 3 months or so. The writer draws a disturbing parallel between Beck's and Jim Jones' line of thinking.

Here's an abbreviated excerpt from the end:

Let me start this last piece of the discussion with a warning. This isn't a prediction. It's just a description of how things typically play out when any authoritarian group arrives at the place where the American right now stands.

If they keep going this way, this is where the road leads -- but the people now in that movement still have a choice about whether they're actually going to make the trip. If they do, here's what lies ahead:

Further separation:
Overt lawlessness:
Picking fights with authorities:

From here, the most likely case is that the vast majority of the folks now drunk on right-wing hate talk will ultimately sober up just soon enough not to follow the movement's emerging leaders down this road. But, if the 1990s were any guide (and the DHS report seems to think that they are), there will also be a small but significant fraction of hard-core right-wingers who will zoom right through the flashing red lights and ride all the way to the bloody end.

What we've seen so far has been intense and surprising -- but we should also recognize it as the first warning gusts of a rapidly gathering storm.


http://www.alternet.org/democracy/139825/the_far_right%27s_first_100_days%3A_getting_more_extreme_by_the_day/?page=entire

The section about how some right-wingers separate themselves from society led me to think about the remarkable number of anti-government types here at Daves.

[Kuros]

[mises]

If only left wingers would separate themselves from society us 'anti-government' types wouldn't feel so unique.



http://tinyurl.com/ndjfp

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Gopher]

[mises]

I suppose they're just not used to being out of power right now. When the Liberal Party (the natural governing party) was at threat of being removed in Canada they ran ads saying Harper was going to put tanks in Canadian cities to maintain order. Then they lost power, and the whole country apparently became a right wing dictatorship that doesn't represent the "will of Canadians". Etc.

I'm sure the Repubs will settle and eventually get around to finding sane leadership, as did the Fed Libs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68toCAiPIjo&feature=PlayList&p=5D06EA63BA004D3A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=8

[Kuros]

[mole]

Show your PRIDE
with one of these.

[Gopher]

Prediction: the left, increasingly smug and confident in power, will overstep itself (again). Then someone will emerge and articulate something like this (again)...

[Leslie Cheswyck]

Let Ya-ta bait all he wants.

He just got this month's issue of Whithouse magazine, the one with the Obama centerfold.

[ubermenzch]