Are Right Wingers Victims of Paranoia?

[stepnw1f]

Poll question: Are Right Wingers Victims of Paranoia?

Are Right Wingers Victims of Paranoia? Well... Pre-emptive, danger, terror, guns, fight, death, bombs.... jesus christ on fire!!!! Are they all just paranoid?

[laststeamtrain]

1. Some are. Can't vote yes or no.

I remember a book called something like: "The Paranoid Style of American Politics" about right wing populism. That really came back in the '90s. And the right sure is trying to woo the left with people like Alex Jones, Tom Flocco, etc, et al.

[mmonk]

2. yes

The administration and its neocons have played them well.

[bloom]

3. I think they are victims of propaganda...

"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon ( a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Tx.) wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them."

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997?rnd=1132582725468&has-player=true&version=6.0.8.1024

The Man Who Sold the War
Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda

"As the war in Iraq has spiraled out of control, the Bush administration's covert propaganda campaign has intensified. According to a secret Pentagon report personally approved by Rumsfeld in October 2003 and obtained by Rolling Stone, the Strategic Command is authorized to engage in "military deception" -- defined as "presenting false information, images or statements." The seventy-four-page document, titled "Information Operations Roadmap," also calls for psychological operations to be launched over radio, television, cell phones and "emerging technologies" such as the Internet. In addition to being classified secret, the road map is also stamped noforn, meaning it cannot be shared even with our allies.

As the acknowledged general of such propaganda warfare, Rendon insists that the work he does is for the good of all Americans. "For us, it's a question of patriotism," he says. "It's not a question of politics, and that's an important distinction. I feel very strongly about that personally. If brave men and women are going to be put in harm's way, they deserve support." But in Iraq, American troops and Iraqi civilians were put in harm's way, in large part, by the false information spread by Rendon and the men he trained in information warfare. And given the rapid growth of what is known as the "security-intelligence complex" in Washington, covert perception managers are likely to play an increasingly influential role in the wars of the future."

[smv12]

4. Brief endorsement

How many times will LaTourette fall in line with Bush's leadership at
the expense of Ohio? Check out www.katzforcongress.com. We need
someone new.

[newyawker99]

11. Hi smv12!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[sam sarrha]

5. actually it is 'Obsessive Compulsive Behavior', cant stop F'n Up !!

compulsive doing what will never work and never has.. just a rerun of the Whig party..

[MercutioATC]

6. Not "victims". They CHOOSE it.

There are plenty of responsible ways to deal with information. They make the choice to resort to paranoia.

[darkmaestro019]

8. I second that. We were all brought up in more or less the same culture

and yet some of us have a clue and some don't. I'm pretty sure nobody is born a bigoted, controlling, cowardly sociopath.

[Hello_Kitty]

7. They are definitely fearful

Also afraid of gays, brown people, and uppity women.

[DanCa]

9. The right relies on feeling the left relies on reason

So given that fact I would say yes.

[dennis00]

10. paranoia with low self-esteem

Paranoia with very low self-esteem. They are sure nobody is after them. So they create imaginary enemies to rant against to confirm their own existence to the world.