Posted on 01/23/2013 5:03:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The battle over gun control has exposed a truth the mainstream media is apparently too shy to mention: A bunch of far right white mostly southern paranoid extremists are preparing for armed revolution and apocalypse. They speak treason: literally.
They are preparing to defend America from America with arsenals of weapons and stockpiles of ammunition. Their enemy is everyone in America not like them.
They think the world is ending and/or that the government is out to get them. That doesnt mean it will happen. But expect violence and assassinations. Their ideology is made up of equal parts racism, evangelical Christian fascination with the end times, hatred of president Obama, resentment of the Old South variety and a Fox News/Glenn Beck/Rush Limbaugh version of world history. As the New Yorker noted:
Every demographic and political trend that helped to reëlect Barack Obama runs counter to the [Souths] self-definition: The Solid South speaks less and less for America and more and more for itself alone Solidity has always been the Souths strength, and its weakness. The same Southern lock that once held the Democratic Party now divides the Republican Party from the socially liberal, fiscally moderate tendencies of the rest of America The Souths vicesviolence, intolerance, aversion and suspicion toward new ideasgrow particularly acute during periods when it is marginalized and left behind. An estrangement between the South and the rest of the country would bring out the worst in bothdangerous insularity in the first, smug self-deception in the second.
The Republican/white/southern extremists make reasonable gun control impossible. Their cataclysmic irrationality risks taking the debate into the twilight zone, and that zone is a zone of violence: call it the civil war continued by other means...
(Excerpt) Read more at patheos.com ...
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