2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Something major is wrong, isn't it? [View all]KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)What you're seeing/hearing are the things "conservatives" have talked about among themselves for years. They did it below the radar...in churches, conferences...on hate radio on religious radio. These are the long held regressive ideals that were part of this "perfect conservative" world that they felt once existed (of course it never did). This is the gestation of decades of talking points that broke into the open as part of the race to the bottom in the ruhspublican clown car demolition derby.
In the past you didn't hear a lot of this bile as the party elite controlled the great unhinged...making sure they get on those church buses on election day. That control is now gone as hate radio and faux noise are now wagging the dog. It's not that Rectorum suddenly believed that a college education turns you into a "librul" or that Nooooot thinks there's a "war on religion"...these are dogwhistles that have long resonated among wingnutia.
Women's rights...along with minorities go back to their being "strict constructionists" where blacks were 3/5th of a man and women were property. It was a world designed for white males and those who threaten that order are the cause of all today's problems. Pretty simple way to look at things, no? Thus when the war on women was unleashed it was just the shining of a light on what has been a long, privately held mantra of the right wing. As the party moved further and further right it's isolated itself from the majority and is over-reaching in a way that's both wreckless and dangerous...