McCarthyism 2010: The Phony Rage of GOP Resurgence

[Joanne98]

For OpEdNews: Bob Ryley - Writer

With each passing day the bizarre world of politics becomes more bizarre. It seems we've lost any ability to contain our political debates within sensible boundaries of civil discourse. Each day brings another Republican politician or right-wing activist who can't disagree with the president and the Democrats in congress without questioning their motives, integrity, or patriotism as loyal American citizens.

Bookstores are chock full of titles written by an endless array of right wing authors who seem to be full of perpetual rage. Their calling is exposing the treason and disloyalty of the socialists, communists, and terrorists currently posing as the President and Democratic members of Congress. The days of debating the "loyal opposition" are long gone. In the battle of love vs hate, the right is sure of one thing: Hate and rage win. Thus we need to have the derogatory adjectives to justify the feigned rage and anger. The Democrats may be the opposition. But, if you listen to right wing talk radio or Fox News they are not considered loyal.

Aside from winning elections and controlling government spending, there's profit to be made touting patriotic values and our "Christian heritage." Glen Beck's tears, are tears of gold as he weeps his way to banking the huge deposits created by book sales and now "Beck University" tuition payments bestowed by his duped supporters and delusional groupies.

There's another factor too. It's a spin-off of the old cliché that "politics is war by other means." That is how GOP politicians, the professional Tea Party profiteers, and millionaire talk show hosts like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck see things. This is war. As "warriors" in this struggle to preserve their fictional American paradise (it only exists in the mind of Ayn Rand's characters) they believe all's fair in love and war.

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