re: #15 ObserverArt

Yep, and it will be very interesting to watch what the response to all that crazy is going to be. That response may well foretell the next 20-30 years politically.

This country is either going to buy into the nuts and be nuts, or there will be a huge backlash and the TeaParty/Party of God/Arch Conservatives will be run out.

I’m counting on the younger population of this country (40 and younger) to learn from this and be the folks that turn back the nuts. I hope anyway. They will need to become very active politically.

New commenter here—just registered today, although I’ve been lurking for a while.

I used to subscribe to the “convicted through their own mouth” school of thought: That the General Public would see how crazy these fuckers are and be totally repelled, leading to a backlash. I’ve finally given up on that, because I’ve come to realize that the General Public doesn’t know anything about what the RWNJs really stand for.

The loons who are marinating in the wingnut-o-sphere are of course all right with all this crap, but they are a small, if vocal minority. Those of us on left-leaning blogs show each other these idiotic pronouncements and think that’s showing the public what’s going on. Problem is, we’re an even smaller and infinitely less vocal minority.

Believe me, 90% of the ordinary people I meet, if I mention any of this wingnut crap that the RWNJs are hyperventilating about, they are completely unaware of it, and quite frankly don’t believe me when I tell them about it. This American strategy of letting the nut jobs convict themselves out of their own mouths is a miserable, abject failure.

We have nothing like Charlie Hebdo to expose the insanity. This is why Americans can’t grasp what Charlie was up to. They print all these “racist” “hateful” cartoons—that must mean they agree with them!

No. They’re exposing to the populace what the Right is saying—often carrying some of the dog-whistles to their logical conclusion. Americans can’t even seem to understand that, so both ends of the political spectrum disapprove of their cartoons. Starting such a journal in the US would be a fool’s errand, I suppose*, but it’s the only thing that would get the vast bulk of the voting public to see what they’re voting for.

*Well, maybe I’ll win the Powerball𠅎xcept those crooks want you to buy a ticket beforehand, right? Wadda rip!

(I can’t explain the Chinese character replacing my em-dash back there. Think I’ll keep it as an oddity.)