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Rachel Maddow on the Mainstreaming of Crackpot Conspiracy Theories by the Right Wing

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)4/26/2013 2:46:14 am PDT

re: #104 stabby

There’s a difference between cowardice and delusion. My suggestion the other day is that delusion is deliberate, that people who imagine enemies where there can be no enemies are pretending. They’re seeking safe excitement. And I think that dangerous radicals may have the same psychology and even the same beliefs.

And this should show you why it’s so deeply, deeply wrong to think a radical Muslim in the Middle East— where real enemies abound— is the same thing as a self-radicalized dude in the US. He had no enemies here. He created them.