“ The America which Europe fears is the America of the Reaganites. The America once of the Scopes trial; the America of prohibition; the America of ignorant isolationism. The America then of ‘‘better dead than red’’; the America of McCarthyism; the America of the last fundamentalists of the 1950s. The America now of the new evangelicals; the America of the Moral Majority; the America of a now ignorant interventionism; the America which can see homosexuals as a conspiracy; feminists as a conspiracy; perhaps even women as a conspiracy. The America of fear.
For it is in fear that the ungoverned and the unfree are doomed to live. And there was this America in control at Detroit. It is time that we reminded ourselves, and said aloud and more often, that it is from these people that nastiness comes. It is time that we pointed out to the neo-conservatives that democracy has never been subverted from the left but always from the right.
For it is in fear that the ungoverned and the unfree are doomed to live. And there was this America in control at Detroit. It is time that we reminded ourselves, and said aloud and more often, that it is from these people that nastiness comes. It is time that we pointed out to the neo-conservatives that democracy has never been subverted from the left but always from the right.
— Henry Fairlie talking about the 1980 Republican convention (!) as quoted by Andrew Sullivan. Amazing. Amazing that he’s not talking about anything that’s gone on in the last 10 years.
It is time that we pointed out to the neo-conservatives that democracy has never been subverted from the left but always from the right. So true. These people, these Palinists, fundies, “birthers,” ditto-heads, and their ilk — they are a threat to the American republic. It IS time we recognized that.
It is time that we pointed out to the neo-conservatives that democracy has never been subverted from the left but always from the right. So true. These people, these Palinists, fundies, “birthers,” ditto-heads, and their ilk — they are a threat to the American republic. It IS time we recognized that.
