Are all right wingers paranoid?

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Are all right wingers paranoid?
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Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:10am

What do you make of the right-wing paranoia? Is it pervasive enough to take seriously? How do you make sense of conservatives concerns about how to take care of their families if Obama becomes president?

As it becomes more and more clear that Obama is likely to win the conservatives are becoming more desperate. They need avenues to vent and a Conspiracy Theory feels that void.

But the whole idea is so implausible. Yet, somehow they are able to rationalize it by believing the conspiracy is real and anyone who doesn’t see it is blind.

Help me out here, is they any way to diplomatically and realistic address this stuff? Are they any conservatives out there who agree that it’s bunk?

>>By Klaus Rohrich Tuesday, October 21, 2008

In October 1962 the film The Manchurian Candidate was released to rave reviews. Directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Harvey, the film was about a nefarious plot that involved brainwashing, an assassin with a post-hypnotic trigger and a conspiracy to deliver the US presidency into the hands of foreign enemies whose plan it was to destroy the country from within. Eventually cracks began to appear in the plot and in the end the evildoers met their just rewards.

Fast-forward 46 years into this year’s presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain. Out of nowhere Barack Obama appears on the scene full-blown and manages to snatch the democratic nomination from Hilary Clinton, despite his complete lack of experience in both domestic as well as foreign policy. In fact, Barack Obama’s experience is so thin that it isn’t even possible to ascertain exactly what he stands for, given that he voted ‘present’ on over 130 Senate bills.

Yet the mainstream media have embraced Obama as the Messiah, the Chosen One, the One Who Will Bring About Hope and Change. No matter that there is no voting record or even a clear history of Obama’s activities since graduation, save and except that he was a ‘community organizer’. Most candidates for political office including those running for dogcatcher of Gnarled Gulch, Montana face close scrutiny by the electorate and especially the media.

But it appears that no amount of subterfuge and skullduggery with which Barack Obama is associated, is enough to raise any questions about his suitability to hold the highest office in the land. Call me paranoid, but suppose there is a vast left-wing conspiracy to take over the United States, there wouldn’t be a better time to do it than now and it seems that there’s no better candidate to do it than Barack Obama. << cont’d

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Registered: 03-30-2007
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:19am

You left out one very important fact about the movie.

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Registered: 07-11-2006
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:23am
Not my theory, just sharing what I've heard, but you make a good point about the POW.

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Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:24am
Conservatives do tend to look at things more logically, and are more concerned with actual facts rather than how someone or something makes them "feel", imo. I think that may be part of your answer.
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Registered: 10-08-2008
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:32am

Conservatives do tend to look at things more logically,


I'm sorry, but that is too funny!


 

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:32am
I didn't see the movie, but I do believe that this inexperienced young man will be VERY DANGEROUS for our country. I don't think he's "in on the plot", if there is one, but he has received campaign funds from overseas contributors which are troubling.
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:33am
Were that the case, there would not be the purponderance of threads about Obama not being a citizen, or Obama being a secret Muslim or the other wingnuttia crap from the right.
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Registered: 07-11-2006
Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:33am

Are you saying that the conservatives are so removed from their emotions that they have to create a delusional story to make sense of them? Or are you saying that believing in a conspiracy is logical even when there aren't any facts to support it?

If what you saying is "Of course there's a conspiracy and you'd have to be blind not to see it", then I just need to know if you're a conservative/rightwinger. If so, I'll put you down as a "yes".

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Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:37am
So what do you think, we can dismiss it as wingnuttery or should we be taking it seriously? Or both.

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Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:37am
Would those over-seas contributors be.....Troops in Iraq?
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Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:41am

All right wingers are no more "paranoid", than all left wingers are idiots.


Nice generalization there...

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