tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post8409489164710925994..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-44384461567371637332014-12-07T17:46:47.105-05:002014-12-07T17:46:47.105-05:00This was written 50 years ago:
Of course this te...This was written 50 years ago:<br /> <br /><b>Of course this term is pejorative, and it is meant to be; the paranoid style has a greater affinity for bad causes than good. But nothing really prevents a sound program or demand from being advocated in the paranoid style. Style has more to do with the way in which ideas are believed than with the truth or falsity of their content. I am interested here in getting at our political psychology through our political rhetoric. The paranoid style is an old and recurrent phenomenon in our public life which has been frequently linked with movements of suspicious discontent.</b><br /><br />Here is Senator McCarthy, speaking in June 1951 about the parlous situation of the United States:<br /><br />How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster? This must be the product of a great conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man. A conspiracy of infamy so black that, which it is finally exposed, its principals shall be forever deserving of the maledictions of all honest men. . . . What can be made of this unbroken series of decisions and acts contributing to the strategy of defeat? They cannot be attributed to incompetence. . . . The laws of probability would dictate that part of . . . [the] decisions would serve the country’s interest.<br /><br />Now turn back fifty years to a manifesto signed in 1895 by a number of leaders of the Populist party:<br /><br />As early as 1865–66 a conspiracy was entered into between the gold gamblers of Europe and America. . . . For nearly thirty years these conspirators have kept the people quarreling over less important matters while they have pursued with unrelenting zeal their one central purpose. . . . Every device of treachery, every resource of statecraft, and every artifice known to the secret cabals of the international gold ring are being used to deal a blow to the prosperity of the people and the financial and commercial independence of the country.<br /><br /><a href="http://harpers.org/print/?pid=66800" rel="nofollow">Link</a>Dark Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220642215040873632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-28158551415348615122014-12-06T22:19:12.509-05:002014-12-06T22:19:12.509-05:00In NYC I read stories of people getting beaten and...In NYC I read stories of people getting beaten and robbed and old ladies getting their arms broken by a mugger.. and the predators are almost always black. Sometimes Hispanic but that is usually for drug crimes. Strong arm robberies and street level mugging are done by black kids.. and girls can be especially tough .. look out when they get out of schools.<br /><br /><br />Otoh attacks on LBGT are mostly white frat boys... when they are not punching out each other. Also crimes against property when they smash things up. <br /><br />And then you have the biggest theives of all.. the bankers and they are almost always white!!Joey_Blauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10531535968137332174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-66820233849408847662014-12-06T16:07:20.963-05:002014-12-06T16:07:20.963-05:00I agree with all of this.
I want to add another f...I agree with all of this.<br /><br />I want to add another fear though. I think the next rung up the Law Enforcement ladder has additional fear. DAs fear cops. The fear of retaliation while the fear of non-cooperation is a banal fear. DAs know what could be unleashed against them personally if they don't play the cop dance card.<br /><br />For so many prosecuting lawyers to make such convoluted decisions basically against the rules of law means more than racism. Powers That Be have the control of African Americans pretty well established, besides, what can they do? But cops, well cops have the guns & and much more. Pallihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06610910291627363042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-20560576528266734792014-12-06T15:38:52.588-05:002014-12-06T15:38:52.588-05:00Scared of black men out of prison? Why were they t...Scared of black men out of prison? Why were they there in the first place? Racial profiling? Why is it that blacks are disproportionately imprisoned? Could it be they're targeted?<br /><br />Assuming black men are dangerous is the definition of racism. Live with it.squiregeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12122006758279419006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-1382818653639892312014-12-06T15:29:22.864-05:002014-12-06T15:29:22.864-05:00Fear really does seem like almost a necessary ingr...Fear really does seem like almost a necessary ingredient for conservatism. Or perhaps it is only an inevitability of the mindset. Even the "saner" conservatives, e.g., Andrew Sullivan, are prone to panic.mlbxxxxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05931351723996391533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-84701593852877237372014-12-06T15:03:23.694-05:002014-12-06T15:03:23.694-05:00If you are a white American, you are part of an en...If you are a white American, you are part of an enormously privileged section of the global population. You can tell yourself you deserve it by inventing all kinds of myths about your exceptionalism and unique virtue and being a light to the rest of the world and so on, but deep down you're not convinced. You know you're just lucky.<br /><br />And you are terrified that "they" know it too, and they're gonna come and take all your nice stuff for themselves.Ken_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11709548046018362581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-22033839276353302592014-12-06T12:01:04.256-05:002014-12-06T12:01:04.256-05:00FOX and radical talk radio have accomplished far, ...FOX and radical talk radio have accomplished far, far, more than what the feared Communist "Fifth Columnists" could have even dreamed of!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-50479587902001565762014-12-06T11:27:38.643-05:002014-12-06T11:27:38.643-05:00Fear. Adolscent fairy tales to explain away the da...Fear. Adolscent fairy tales to explain away the dark, keep the bed dry at night. Facilitated down through the centuries by religion (red/black "demons") and greatly enhanced with advent in the nineteen-thirties of mass media. None of this is new. Hitler, and Machaivili, though laughing uproureously in hell, were really rather minor characters in a far grander game.<br /><br />Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.com