Reply #10: All the "outrage" of a moral and political nature that the rightwing think

[nealmhughes]

tanks promote are the works of shills who try to give an intellectual and religious aegis to the Megacapitalist Agenda. Noone would say "one corporation for the entire world" and fight and aplogize for it, now would they? However, wrap oneself in a flag and shove a cross in one's face and many are frightened to not jump on the bandwagon.

They, the MegaCorp, chose "terror" and "culture war" as their own private memes and the media have enabled them to the point of it not even being remarkable.

They could have cloaked themselves in a progressive mantle, had they chosen, but the Ayn Rand fetish is too strong for them to shake. See, "conservatives" are strong! Individualists! Oohrah! U-S-A! Don't you know that making money is all there is in the world and to shape the people who aren't even really people in the mold you, the true man desires?

Rather like rigid religious fundamentalism and strict Stalinism/Trotskyism: in a changing world, one clings to a set of beliefs to the ultimate day to give one's life purpose....

And oh, what a purpose it has...