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Rex

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16. You forgot fear, they are motivated by fear as well as anger.

Tue Oct 7, 2014, 01:56 PM

Oct 2014

The GOP PTB know they can use both anger and fear to keep their voters so outraged/scared, that they never actually pay attention to what is going on. And over the decades, this constant abuse of the brain has left permanent-harmful side effects. Irrationality being just one. The lack of critical thinking. Lack of good judgement.

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The Forty-Year Hissy Fit (Why �Republicanism� is doomed) [View all] riqster Oct 2014 OP

Right wingers have always followed the Buckley maxim: hifiguy Oct 2014 #1

A great response BrotherIvan Oct 2014 #3

I am old enough to tell you that it was once true. hifiguy Oct 2014 #7

Thanks for the link BrotherIvan Oct 2014 #8

+1 daleanime Oct 2014 #9

There were Republicans that were actually fairly liberal NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #12

You nailed it. Thirties Child Oct 2014 #13

I was BORN in '56. hifiguy Oct 2014 #15

Exactly. Of course, there were yesterday's Southern Democrats, most of today's "tea partiers"... Hortensis Oct 2014 #44

May want to revise your progressivist optmism there BlindTiresias Oct 2014 #28

i am not terribly optimistic in the short run, hifiguy Oct 2014 #30

+1 SomethingFishy Oct 2014 #43

K & R. n/t FSogol Oct 2014 #2

Disagree with one central point IDemo Oct 2014 #4

yesssss: it's *unmoored* anger that they've been cultivating for so long (that also helps explain MisterP Oct 2014 #11

Hold on. Frozen is gay propaganda?? LondonReign2 Oct 2014 #22

Hell, if a Teletubbie was gay.... riqster Oct 2014 #26

the queen sings "let it go": literally that's it MisterP Oct 2014 #27

I just learned something there. Thanks. byronius Oct 2014 #40

Republicans should just let it go. Efilroft Sul Oct 2014 #35

Republican anger has been amped up by RW talkers and Fox News. Dustlawyer Oct 2014 #21

For sure! FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) tend to make us react more conservatively, protectively. Hortensis Oct 2014 #45

you have generalized too much strawberries Oct 2014 #5

It's a blog post, not a dissertation. riqster Oct 2014 #33

Things in the rear view mirror may look better than they are/were. merrily Oct 2014 #6

K&R freshwest Oct 2014 #10

But it wasn't a post-Watergate reaction starroute Oct 2014 #14

True. There are those who use emotion to manipulate. riqster Oct 2014 #17

You forgot fear, they are motivated by fear as well as anger. Rex Oct 2014 #16

Fear and anger are synergistic. Good point. riqster Oct 2014 #18

Not quite buying this. zentrum Oct 2014 #19

Nixon was an anomaly, and strange even for that. hifiguy Oct 2014 #23

Well Said!! n/t zentrum Oct 2014 #24

exactly right. n/t MBS Oct 2014 #41

Nixon's vendettas were personal, not systemic. hifiguy Oct 2014 #42

It's more the post-Nixon phenomenon I wrote about here, riqster Oct 2014 #46

Really agree with this. zentrum Oct 2014 #47

Thom Hartmann coincidentally just said..... zentrum Oct 2014 #48

Thom Hartmann has hifiguy Oct 2014 #50

Perhaps it is just more overt these past years. riqster Oct 2014 #32

This reminded me of what President Clinton said EileenFB Oct 2014 #20

He also said something that stayed with me. riqster Oct 2014 #25

I think this is because... zentrum Oct 2014 #49

But conservatism will never go away and will always be a political force. Kablooie Oct 2014 #29

Quibble: the use of "conservative" is inaccurate and plays into their hands. riqster Oct 2014 #31

yes, you're right MBS Oct 2014 #37

Ultra-reactionaries, actually. hifiguy Oct 2014 #39

excellent article vlyons Oct 2014 #34

Some things predate the recent period. riqster Oct 2014 #36

spot-on summary of a frustrating, hideous and shameful period in our history MBS Oct 2014 #38

My parents were yellow dog Democrats. Manifestor_of_Light Oct 2014 #51

Disagree with much of this Centrist1984 Oct 2014 #52

The same way lurkers seek to destroy ... littlemissmartypants Oct 2014 #53

You blew it in your first paragraph. riqster Oct 2014 #54