I found this in my email vault this morning. I saved it way back in 2011. I did not write it and found it on a forum at some site. Usually I keep the author when saving things, but this time there is none.
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You've got to stand back and look at the American Falangists in an historical context.
They've been programmed from birth to believe in their nation's exceptional-ism (with a
creepy Christian/Libertarian/Individualist mythology).
In their lifetimes, it's has slowly fallen to pieces, for reasons too numerous to go into
(that would require a modern day Gibbons). They have to believe that their country
is the best in the world, while it turns to shit in front of them. Cognitive Dissonance
ensues.
Adding, insult to injury the 911 attacks, which may or may not have been carried out
by a Muslim fanatic called Osama, were followed only 8 years later by the election of a
President who they believe to be a Muslim, named Obama, who may or may not be a
Hawaiian.
If you wanted to carry out a particularly cruel jest on people who could at best be
described as intellectually incurious, could there have been a better way? It's as if
the U.S. is a giant petri dish, and someone's having a grand old time playing with the
bacteria!
And basically, an already noxious movement has finally snapped, and gone completely
mad. Hence, full-bore lunatics like Beck, as well as the larger cabal of hate-mongers,
mouth-breathers, cock-splinters and useful idiots that populate the electro-magnetic
spectrum of hard right AM radio.
Incapable of following a single line of thought in a logical manner, now you add the
internet, with the array of conspiracy theories - a theory for every belief system (BS).
Shakespeare used to be called "the last refuge of the unbalanced mind". Now, the whole
world is your oyster, if you're coming apart at the seams. Maybe the Earl of Oxford
secretly foretold the 911 attacks in his final sonnet. Did you know that the North Koreans,
in cahoots with Greenpeace, secretly torpedoed the Deepwater Horizon? Etc.....
If you've ever had a close friend or family member or (god forbid) partner suffer from
paranoid delusions (and I've had the misfortune to have enjoyed all three), you'll be
familiar with the way that they twist your every move into YOUR CONSPIRACY
AGAINST THEM. They will invent slights out of the ether, anything to prop up their
paranoid world view. There is nothing that you can say or do, no argument, however
logical (even when you have other witnesses to back you up) that can dissuade them of
the FACT that YOU ARE SECRETLY WORKING TO GET THEM SENT TO JAIL/CHEATING ON
THEM/TRYING TO GET THEM FIRED FROM WORK/ETC.
A swathe of the population - the ones who fall into the "authoritarian follower" class
defined by Bob Altemeyer, are the ones now going into the Twilight Zone. They were
already a mean-spirited bunch of fuckstains - and now they're a batty mean-spirited
bunch of fuckstains.
And as the U.S. continues to slide, they'll only get worse. But don't be scared, because
even though they're batty mean-spirited fuckstains, they're also cowardly batty mean
spirited fuckstains.
They'll huff, and they'll puff, but will they blow your house down?
They'll have to get that kidney transplant first, or find a portable dialysis machine.
If only they had a National Health System...
Good luck with that.
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