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Dumb and written in poor English. But these are indeed rightwing talking points, and we will hear more of them - I predict, more and more tea-baggish. There's a very basic Invading Enemy frame there in which Greens/DFHs want to fuck up my lifestyle, and it will be from my cold, dead hand etc (we know the music). Add to it that we are still in a period of prolonged backlash from the DFH days that so deeply questioned traditional mores.

In this exchange, Migeru asked what was wrong with rightwingers, that they had to deny everything. My response was because it works. A significant constituency, especially in America but not only, is just begging to go into major denial and be fed an enemy as an excuse. Of course, behind this, there are incumbent industries that want to hold on to comfortable revenue streams as long as they can (the next thirty years would be cool), and are funding the propagandists that roll out the talking points we see repeated here.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 04:22:24 AM EST
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