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In reply to the discussion: What is it about conservatives that make them so Gawd Damn Mean? [View all]SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)48. Yep and that fear is raised exponentially by the right wing media..
I was thinking earlier about the piece that Fox ran a couple months ago about Obama privately financing a Muslim Museum. The piece was satire but Fox saw it and ran with it as a major breaking story. When they figured out that their journalistic integrity(You know, looking up stuff on Wiki) failed them again, their retraction came in the form of a a short tweet on the anchors twitter feed... Leaving their audience to believe that Obama is still a Kenyan Muslim out to bring down the country and convert us to Sharia Law.
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I totally agree, gravity. All...every single one.. of the right wingers I know personally is scared
loudsue
Dec 2013
#19
I was actually just reading a piece by Slavoj Zizek discussing this anxiety you speak of.
Gravitycollapse
Dec 2013
#9
They are hoarders consumed by the fear that someone else is happier than they are.
winter is coming
Dec 2013
#5
They have become reactionary... that is, they don't merely resist liberals, they do the opposite.
reformist2
Dec 2013
#8
Not just unthinkingly attack new ideas, but wishing to go back to a past utopia that never was....
YoungDemCA
Dec 2013
#10
an "anyone can achieve anything" versus a "there but for fortune go you or I" view of the world
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2013
#22