Very Interesting and probably right on... excerpt : The common thread that runs through the Republicans issues of the day has little to do with those issues per se. What its really about is the fear of a future in which traditional white male power structures dissolve. The true crux of the friction with the White House and the Democrats and indeed with most Americans -- including most women living in the South and many Southern men as well -- lies in the racial history of Reconstruction, Jim Crow and slavery. The lies about our federal government -- that somehow they are in league with the United Nations, to the point where we cant even sign an international declaration on the rights of the handicapped! – have nothing to do with the stated objectives. This is like a family argument where an uncle shows up at the dinner table and argues with everyone not because he actually disagrees but because hes feeling alienated from the family. Simple palpable hatred drives these people to willful ignorance. The white males insisting on carrying guns (in a country where violent crime is way down!) are scared, not of muggers, but of the fact that their imaginary reality is coming unstuck. Theyre too smart to believe that Fox News spin on reality is reality. Most of these folks are too smart to believe in their evangelical theology either. Ill bet at heart many are atheists or at least doubters, well aware of the hypocrisies and inanities of evangelical Christianity. But they put on an act of upholding what they believe are the traditional standards we need to live by, which really boils down to little more than white resentment. These Republicans are from safely gerrymandered districts so they have little to lose and something to gain by “holding the line” against public opinion and the president, even if it continually pushes the country to the brink......read on.....
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 17:28:03 +0000
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