from time to time you get a glimpse of the authoritarian aspects of conservativeland--like mojo, they really don't like folk who think differently than they do and apparently enjoy indulging in murder fantasies in connection with this.
to wit:
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Kerry is a traitor, if I had my way I would have hung him surrounding any of his "dissent".
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and, like mojo, the prefer to blame critique for the problems created by incompetence and duplicity from their own ranks (the case for war in iraq, the way it has been carried out, etc etc etc)
maybe there will sometime be nice camps in rural areas where the right can send the "traitors" they seem to dream of rounding up and eliminating.
and if this happens and anyone now without particular political committments were to say anything in protest, there would be space in these nice camps for them as well.
anyway, mojo's frothing posts give an indication of why the right wants to indulge in wholesale revisionism concerning vietnam and why they allow sleazoids like the swift boat crew to operate.
if they can convince folk that vietnam was not a war predictated on lies and run with the greatest incompetence with the result of decimation of vietnam and fundamental political problems n the states that have not and will not go away, then it becomes all the easier to make the same kind of surreal claims regarding iraq.
this is also an explanation for why the right sees no problem with the near-dictatorial notions of executive authority the bush squad has run with for the past few years.
they don't like dissent.
they dont like disagreement.
they really dont like democracy.
they like the word, but that's as far as it goes.
where the rest of the planet sees debacle, they see a reason to stand firm, question nothing, go along with whichever republican is in power. so long as it is a republican.
it is kind of sad and kind of laughable at the same time.