From the same blogger that once predicted that President Bush would cancel the 2008 elections and rule as a dictator comes a disbelieving critique of the excesses of far right paranoia. Yeah, Libby, that look in the mirror can be pretty disturbing, can’t it?
This is, however, more than just another “gotcha moment” for a far left that eagerly jumped on every hysterical BushHitler fantasy for the last eight years. It is revealing of the strong cultural affinity that underlies even wildly disparate forms of extremism. Extremism, to put a point on it, relies on demonization — the presumption (closed to evidence, logic, or counterexample) that everyone on the other side of the political fence is not merely in error, but is actively evil. Only from such presumptions it becomes possible to draw the scenarios of concentration camps, race wars, martial law, foreign occupation, anarchy, brainwashing, mind control, superhuman conspiracies, revocation of the Bill of Rights, et cetera.
Unfortunately, these are the kinds of voices that not only exist in the blogosphere, but more often than not seem to predominate.
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