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dk--let's not be disengenuous. it is not the case that all movements which work in opposition to the existing order are the same simply because they're in opposition. and you don't believe it yourself--were this a movement from the left, you'd be jumping up and down about it and buying more canned goods for your bunker.
conditions are now such that it's hard to even have a discussion about this. it's like there are separate planets and folk who support this teapartiers live on one and other folk live on another. things which are axiomatic on the teaparty planet--like the gubment is evil by definition--are surreal in their simplemindedness on the other planet--but there's no common ground to have a discussion. this erosion of the basis for a debate seems to me to be the result of a long effort on the part of the populist right to carve out for itself a space of self-confirming short bromides which shape what passes for a coherent politics amongst the demographics which find such stuff to be appealing.
it's the self-confirming nature of the statements that indicates the problem.
then you start adding to that the particular political orientations of segments of this coalition. the militia movement. who the fuck wants the militia movement getting itself into power? the xenophobia set. the social reactionaries. the only thing holding this movement together is some incoherent sense of having been fucked over that's been channeled by folk like beck into some strange political movement.
so yeah, i think it's dangerous.
i think neo-fascism is always dangerous.
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