A RW Political Weakness: They want the World to Burn [View all]
If I was someone who trolled RW message boards (hypothetically, of course. I don't recommend it. Gaze not into the abysss...) I would be going full tilt on the "radicalize the people" angle... that this is the election the Right Wing needs to lose in order to win.
A substantial part of the Republican base is apocalyptic, and not just religiously. They want to be on the righteous side, but in their hearts the want the world to explode because their righteousness means little without the Gotterdammerung that will show everyone they were right.
If you waste your income every year on ammo and dehydrated food, at some point you start rooting for the end of the world. The end of the world is a personal validation. Without the end of the world you look like a fool. And imagine a world where only fire-power is the measure of a man, where you can shoot looters and moochers with impunity... where gold and ammo are the only currency. It is the world many people think they want. When the end comes they will be like kings.
So with the antichrist in place (a black president) and an unsympathetic non-Christian financier as Republican candidate looking like as ass, this is surely the long-awaited test.
When we read these lurid fantasies of what will happen if Obama wins, of the coming race-war and food-riots and mass-rape and Sharia-law, they are to some degree wish fulfillment fantasies.
And that is potentially a practical political weakness... a base that, in part, secretly hopes the other guy wins.
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