Tim Wise: Of Broken Clocks, Presidential Candidates, and the Confusion of Certain White Liberals

[JackRiddler]

13. It's the cult of the moment to emphasize how much against him you are.

It's not enough that you're against him along with the rest of the Republican pack. You must have special hatred of him, as though he's worse than Romney or Gingrich (ha!). You must be appalled at the supposed "defense" of him among liberals. If you don't single him out as the worst candidate ever, and if you're not warning warning warning liberals not to look into the Ron Paul Abyss, then you're on your way to being incriminated as a covert supporter.

The reason for this is not how odious his odious positions are. These are no more odious, no more crazy, no more racist than those from Romney, Gingrich or Santorum. (Absurd to think otherwise: these guys are all practically pledging to start World War Fucking Three.)

The reason for this is that right now a D administration is involved in undefined open-ended warfare all over South Asia and producing outrages against the constitution like NDAA, and unfortunately the most prominent voice in opposition (owing to the presidential race) is Dr. Paul.

This is an outrage to the liberal self-image. They want to quietly adopt preventive detention and perpetual war and a growing police state as their own thing, owing to "realism" or "compromise" or "war is peace" or whatever cheap excuse they're making for it. QUIETLY. Not to be outflanked to the left by a right-winger! Grrrrrrrrr!!!

It produces cognitive dissonance, and so for now Exorcism of the Paul has become a required daily ritual. See OP article.