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"Hidding in Plain Sight"
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 8:23 pm
by stilltrucking
Hdding in Plain Sight: The Christian Right in the Tea Party Movement
If you liked Rovian anti-gay marriage referendums, the Terry Schiavo saga, anti-abortion litmus tests for diplomatic service in a war zone, and creationism in the Grand Canyon bookstore, you'll love this season's Tea Party candidates.
Why are we just getting the bulletin about "social conservatives" in the Tea Party movement? The media, beguiled by the period costumes and libertarian theatrics of the Tea Party demonstrations, overlooked from the very beginning the influence of veteran Christian rightwing activists within it. But read between the lines and you'll find clues that the Christian Right has been in the Tea Party trenches from the start.
So why did the Christian Right flock to the Tea Party movement, and what explains their libertarian posturing?
full article here
Re: "Hidding in Plain Sight"
Posted: September 19th, 2010, 5:44 pm
by mnaz
... what explains their libertarian posturing?
and of course the deeper question is, what explains
posturing to begin with? nothing. "posturing' is by definition a false front...
Re: "Hidding in Plain Sight"
Posted: September 19th, 2010, 6:03 pm
by still.trucking
You kick it up a notch
Yeah you know my mind runs to animal behavior when I try to think about what you are saying.
Seems to me primates have reasons for their posturing
I guess I am getttin loose with the use of the word posturing
yeah do animals put up false fronts, to ward of danger?
Don't know mnaz
am I trying to explain posturing or am I just being one of those jerks who automatically disagrees with everyone
I guess I am getting religious in my forlorn rags of old age
I liked this bit
from one my tag lines
It is called I.B. Singer on behaviour modification
about the intention behind the intention and playing the pious man
I be back with a link to it
Re: "Hidding in Plain Sight"
Posted: September 19th, 2010, 6:14 pm
by still.trucking
Isaac Bashevis Singer on Behavior Therapy (JEAB, 1981, 35, 186)
“ ‘Father-in-law,’ I asked, ‘what did the rabbi say to you?’
‘He told me to become a flatterer,’ my father-in-law answered. ‘For eight days I must flatter everyone I meet, even the worst scoundrel. If your rabbi had an ounce of sense he would know that I hate flattery like the plague. It makes me sick even to come in contact with it. For me, a flatterer is worse than a murderer.…’ ”
Journal of Experimentl the Analysis of Behavior
Re: "Hidding in Plain Sight"
Posted: September 19th, 2010, 6:37 pm
by mnaz
They're trying to gain power, to impose their oppressive neo-puritan will, and hasten the End of the World, as they read it in their respective Holy Books. That's the 'why' of it. If 'libertarianism' seems promising toward that end, at the time, then so be it! Instant libertarians as pious and holy as the driven snow...
Re: "Hidding in Plain Sight"
Posted: September 19th, 2010, 6:58 pm
by stilltrucking
It is about frightened angry mob and the the people who use them to pursue their filthy lucre. "Malefactors of Great Wealth" Do gooders, ha.
About power yes. power to the powerless
oh boy
Hell, don't mind me i can't hold up an intelligent discussion tonight
too beat
Re: "Hidding in Plain Sight"
Posted: September 19th, 2010, 7:07 pm
by mnaz
stilltrucking wrote:It is about frightened angry mob and the the people who use them to pursue their filthy lucre.
oh that too. oh, definitely.