As Charlie Pierce says frequently at the end of a report on stuff like this, “They really are the mole people.” One of the major changes that has happened in American politics in the years leading up to and then through the presidency of That Fucking Traitor Who I Will Not Name is that a lot of the political change on the right takes place in the subterranean world of what Republicans I used to work with 45 years ago used to call “the Crazy,” “the Kooks.” The people Richard Hofstadter was writing about 68 years ago when he called them “Pseudo-Conservatives.” The ones he described thus: “... its exponents, although they believe themselves to be conservatives and usually employ the rhetoric of conservatism, show signs of a serious and restless dissatisfaction with American life, traditions and institutions... Their political reactions express rather a profound if largely unconscious hatred of our society and its ways... given to a form of political expression that combines a curious mixture of largely conservative with occasional radical notions... The pseudo-conservative shows conventionality and authoritarian submissiveness in his conscious thinking and violence, anarchic impulses, and chaotic destructiveness in the unconscious sphere... The pseudo conservative is a man who, in the name of upholding traditional American values and institutions and defending them against more or less fictitious dangers, consciously or unconsciously aims at their abolition.
What has happened to “groomer” Matt Gratz? The Krazees are drinking too much kool
Aid. Thank you TC for sharing your insights. It id incredulous the theories the “repugnicans” keep spewing forth.
I’m doing what I can everyday to be more informed of my local elections --the “dark money”’has been working these for years and look at was is happening in so many states!
Im hoping the select committee for Jan 6th has a strategy to pull the rig out from under these “krazees” before the midterm elections in November.
Re: Disney--while listening to an NPR broadcast today, it seems Disney may benefit from the “krazee” governors revenge tactics and Floridians will have to share more of the tax bill. Under the current Disney arrangement, Disney takes care of all emergencies, ie. Fire, rescue,EMS etc. --with the new rules, you will have to rely on the county EMS to take care of your heart attack at Disney--on the taxpayers dime.
This type of rhetoric around all things pertaining to sexuality and identity have been part of the Fascist playbook for a very long time. When you identify certain behaviors with certain people it is easy to turn those people into scum and flies to spit out (Putin). If you read any of Putin's speech's you hear it. You hear it in Le Pen, DeSantis and others who keep looking for THE scapegoat that will distract a large enough group of voters that they'll mindlessly put their mark next to the very candidate whose intention is to smash democracy by making use of democratic practices. This kind of rhetoric is meant to prove there is moral rot in one political party (i.e. democrats or as in Russia any party that has ideas that don't match up with Putin, or in regard to Putin, the West as the bastion of depravity from which not only Ukrainians must be liberated but, the rest of the Russian speaking world) and that therefore to vote for any of that party's candidates is to vote for moral rot. The so-called Evangelical Christian movement has made these matters foundational for years. Orwellian language is being spoken in the land and too few people recognize it for what it is and what it means. The gop is broadcasting exactly what they intend. People need to wake up before their plans can come to fruition.
I don't like to think of myself as a conspiracy theorist, but the speed and consistency of this "messaging" strikes me as emanating from some organized source. The language, the packaging, the widespread nature of it - all seem to indicate that some group is generating these new "talking points" - which in my mind have moved beyond mere talking points into an altogether different dark category. We know the (former GOP) Putrid Putin Party is gifted at projection; if calling others pedophiles and "groomers" is their new initiative, that speaks volumes to me about what THEY might be doing (think Gaetz). They are certainly not using their time to govern.
This country is strange, very strange. It is as though I'm watching Grand Guignol Theatre (ɡrɑ̃ ɡiɲɔl), - a series of sensationalistic plays created to horrify. Cruz, DeSantis, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump... these are the 'krayzees' the political stars for many citizens of the United States. I watched a young girl standing next to DeSanctis as he recited his weird speech about banning school books. She looked quite somber, didn't crack a smile for a nanosecond and what I could see of the other children, they were simply nonengaged, window dressing. It is very creepy to see children around DeSantis. It felt as though he could eat them alive. This is really happening; it is serious as 'hell', literally, because many Americans are captured by them.
What has happened to “groomer” Matt Gratz? The Krazees are drinking too much kool
Aid. Thank you TC for sharing your insights. It id incredulous the theories the “repugnicans” keep spewing forth.
I’m doing what I can everyday to be more informed of my local elections --the “dark money”’has been working these for years and look at was is happening in so many states!
Im hoping the select committee for Jan 6th has a strategy to pull the rig out from under these “krazees” before the midterm elections in November.
Re: Disney--while listening to an NPR broadcast today, it seems Disney may benefit from the “krazee” governors revenge tactics and Floridians will have to share more of the tax bill. Under the current Disney arrangement, Disney takes care of all emergencies, ie. Fire, rescue,EMS etc. --with the new rules, you will have to rely on the county EMS to take care of your heart attack at Disney--on the taxpayers dime.
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/22/1094316591/disney-world-desantis-florida-counties-taxes.
This type of rhetoric around all things pertaining to sexuality and identity have been part of the Fascist playbook for a very long time. When you identify certain behaviors with certain people it is easy to turn those people into scum and flies to spit out (Putin). If you read any of Putin's speech's you hear it. You hear it in Le Pen, DeSantis and others who keep looking for THE scapegoat that will distract a large enough group of voters that they'll mindlessly put their mark next to the very candidate whose intention is to smash democracy by making use of democratic practices. This kind of rhetoric is meant to prove there is moral rot in one political party (i.e. democrats or as in Russia any party that has ideas that don't match up with Putin, or in regard to Putin, the West as the bastion of depravity from which not only Ukrainians must be liberated but, the rest of the Russian speaking world) and that therefore to vote for any of that party's candidates is to vote for moral rot. The so-called Evangelical Christian movement has made these matters foundational for years. Orwellian language is being spoken in the land and too few people recognize it for what it is and what it means. The gop is broadcasting exactly what they intend. People need to wake up before their plans can come to fruition.
I don't like to think of myself as a conspiracy theorist, but the speed and consistency of this "messaging" strikes me as emanating from some organized source. The language, the packaging, the widespread nature of it - all seem to indicate that some group is generating these new "talking points" - which in my mind have moved beyond mere talking points into an altogether different dark category. We know the (former GOP) Putrid Putin Party is gifted at projection; if calling others pedophiles and "groomers" is their new initiative, that speaks volumes to me about what THEY might be doing (think Gaetz). They are certainly not using their time to govern.
There oughta be a law and there oughta be consequences🤬.
Thank You for the wake up call. Waking into a nightmare.
Gulp. Sending more money to Elissa Slotkin. Michigan cannot afford to lose her.
Hopefully, most Democrats are right, but it will take a lot of work and some painful strategic reassessments to prove them so.
This country is strange, very strange. It is as though I'm watching Grand Guignol Theatre (ɡrɑ̃ ɡiɲɔl), - a series of sensationalistic plays created to horrify. Cruz, DeSantis, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump... these are the 'krayzees' the political stars for many citizens of the United States. I watched a young girl standing next to DeSanctis as he recited his weird speech about banning school books. She looked quite somber, didn't crack a smile for a nanosecond and what I could see of the other children, they were simply nonengaged, window dressing. It is very creepy to see children around DeSantis. It felt as though he could eat them alive. This is really happening; it is serious as 'hell', literally, because many Americans are captured by them.