A "driveway moment*" yesterday on NPR's Fresh Air: The guest was Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party. I haven’t read the book, but based on this interview it sounds like a really interesting book.
One of the ‘founding fathers” of the rightwing fringe movement that he discusses is R.J. Rushdoony, who, among other things, wanted to establish a Christian totalitarian theocracy using the Law of the Old Testament (which would very much resemble the Islamic theocracies whose barbaric policies are so repugnant to anyone who loves freedom, featuring such things as a death penalty for immoral women or homosexuality, etc.). Another major player he talks about is James Dobson and his tactics (who many people call “Reverend”, but actually not a Reverend at all), including causing Sarah Palin to be put on the McCain ticket. Then there’s (I’m ashamed to say, “Austin’s own”) Alex Jones, who has these paranoids convinced that Obama’s about to herd them into internment camps under the guise of FEMA.
Here are a couple of Blumenthal’s videos that he has taken in the very belly of the beast.
Gun Show Nation (Inside Anti-Obama Extremist Gun Culture)
Theocracy Now! Convention 2007
*driveway moment: when what's on the radio is so good that you continue to listen in the car after you reach your destination.
2 comments:
These people really scare the hell out of me. They're so out of touch with reality and so angry, and so heavily armed! I'm afraid there's going to be another Tim McVeigh type incident in the near future.
I am really frightened. It IS the guns. Delusional people should not be armed.
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