The Bundy Takeover of the Malheur Refuge.

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27. This is Oklahoma City...not Waco.

Like an explosion in slow motion. First Bundy ranch...what did not get reported was the galvanising aftermath. Contact between disparate extremist groups, energised cells, transition from static to dynamic groups. Then the mob in the sanctuary. Watch the unifying meme evolve. While we were laughing at them they were catapulting their propaganda to a waiting audience. The audience is tinder, soaked in kerosene. Did you catch Palin literally speaking in tongues? Who do you think she was talking to? Of course the transcript reads like gibberish, but that was not the message. It was the affect, the ritualised iconography, and most importantly, the thrumming sound of the cheering mob echoing in a million empty, hunger heads, "we are legion!". The mob is not engaged in discourse; it is working itself into an altered state. These two comedy shows at polar ends of politics are symptoms of the same syndrome. No need for conspiracy, it is the self organising endgame of uncontrolled capitalism and corporate fascism. After the cowboys comes the brown shirts. After the tea party comes the strong man. The first destroys the artifacts of democracy, the second destroys the idea.