-by Noah
Since the days of Barry Goldwater and The John Birch Society, America has been careening towards the Republican desire of a Nazi future. Nixon made a lot of headway in that effort when he brought the Dixiecrat racists and anti-Semites into the party cesspool with his "Southern Strategy" in 1968. One of his aides, Roger Ailes even had plans for what became FOX "News" or what he called GOP-TV. However, the dream was slowed when Nixon was forced to resign. Ironically, one of the people who convinced him to resign was Barry Goldwater himself. In retrospect, he probably saw that as a "Live to fight another day" action. In the end, a fellow traveler named Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon and Democrats and whatever few decent republicans there might have been at that time grew more and more complacent as the country developed the false comfort of a "Nothing to see here attitude" which begat an "It can't happen here" blindness. Even the likes of Reagan, 2 Bushes, and Cheney didn't snap our sleeping country out of it so the republican dream has only grown and grown.
So many words are being written about the dire American future that the Republican Party has been striving for, so I will just stop here for today. The perfect storm of an absolute madman Nazi arrived in the man-thing that Republicans now worship golden statues of. The Republican Party is a messianic cult. Out of all the tens of millions of Republicans in the country, less than a literal handful will speak against their Nazi messiah. The others do not speak up, not out of fear but because of belief. Meanwhile, millions of passive fools and idiots, ostensibly on our side, continue to naively wait for them to do the right thing. If that was ever going to happen, it would have already occurred, long ago.
Ah, hater blows another valve. predictable.
Yes, I grant you that Noah has touched on these themes far more often than anyone else on this page (a sum total of zero others). But he's almost always done so tangentially. Better than nothing, but NOT all that useful.
The dumber than shits MUST be exposed to a yan as fully fleshed out as the nazis' yin, or they simply cannot understand (a distinct possibility anyway). Why, YOU are exposing yourself as a prime example of this.
And I find it fascinating that you will (and shall in the future no doubt) blow a valve when I flesh out the yan, yet defend this author when he does better than touch on…
It's so cute how the guestcrapper sees the written word of others in terms of his own ego. If Jesus or Buddah was around and had a radio show, he'd be calling in and telling them "That's what I've been saying for years!I'm vindicated, so vindicated! I even invented those thoughts!"
And guestcrapper, Noah has made every point you mention over the years. I know. I know. You put that aside or convince yourself he didn't just so you can set your flaming ego off. Unlike you, he knows how to focus. He even said, "I'll just stop here for today." He knows the reader's time is limited. He's respectful and he doesn't want to distract from the key point…
Thanks for the vindication. Worded slightly differently, but says exactly what I've been saying for over 5 decades (Goldwater lost in '64 in spite of the valliant efforts of one of his "girls" named Hillary fucking Rodham!!!).
One quibble: Nixon's southern strategery could only have been viable after LBJ wrassled his own party into passing VRA and CRA in the mid '60s. Once the Democrats "did the right thing" instead of continuing to avoid doing it in order to maintain that tenuous north/south coalition, it made millions of southern (and rural) white racists flee the Ds and join the Rs. Nixon's campaign did the electoral math, completed the nascent southern strategery AND proto-nazi party transformation started by Goldwater, and perh…