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actually, there is evidence that he was into a version of far right loon mythology--you know, ayn rand, ron paul....combined with a more eclectic reading list.
i've not been making anything like a causal connection between this guy's individual decisions/actions and neo-fascist language as if the latter was working in his brain like a parasite and made him do stuff as a way of expressing its own characteristics. what i'm saying is that this happened within a poisonous political context and the responsibility for that poison comes clearly from the populist right----in the shorter run from the fabrication of the tea party as a movement that in the end has been co-opted by american crossroads and other deep pockets organizations in order to pressure the republican party to head further to the right. this at a moment of total political collapse for conservative politics in any sane sense of the term.
the populist right generated a context in which this is not surprising in general. something like this happening is not surprising.
that's not to make a cause-effect argument---but it is to say that there's a problem with the context that the right has created for it's own self-interest, its own purposes.
there are other questions that arise from this which are more central for the specific action:
why is it so easy to buy a fucking glock?
what possible reason is there to have glocks be available so easily in arizona?
what possible reason is there to have abandoned background checks in arizona?
the other that i've been reading about has to do with the cutting away of mental health services by conservatives because they seem so vaporous and unmanly i suppose.
maybe like most conservative policies, cutting funding for mental health treatment turns out to be a really bad idea.
but it's still funny to watch and read all the conservatives who are whining about what victims they are because of this. and acting all indignant about the Tragedy of It All. and trying to find a way to blame their usual imaginary enemies for it again.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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