Tuesday, June 28, 2005
The current Republican Party line and the apocalyptic mindsetAs we get ready to hear Bush's wise counsel and inspiration in a few minutes, I thought I would share this.David Neiwert sees the current Nixon-on-OxyContin, liberals-are-traitors line from Karl Rove and the senior Republicans as an example of "eliminationist" rhetoric: The hunting of the liberals Orcinus blog 06/27/05. Speaking of the kind of rhetoric to which Karl Rove treated us last week, he says: What's important to understand is what the nature of these appeals - and their self-evident success - tells us simultaneously about the nature of the audience. Because the very nature of fundamentalist apocalypticism is profoundly dualist - entirely contingent on a black-and-white Manichean worldview - it is clear that the majority of at least the religious followers of the conservative movement are what is known as "totalists".Tags: authoritarianism, david neiwert | +Save/Share | | |
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