Ratcheting up the crazy
by digby
This is the conservative movement in 2012:
I don't know that these professional right wingers even believe what they're saying, but the hysteria ramps up a little bit more every single day. It's not so much that every Republican believes this crazy garbage. It's that the craziest ones do --- and there are a lot of them.
Of course, it's not exactly new, is it?
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.
That was Joseph McCarthy in 1951. That may seem like a long time ago, but look at it this way: it's the year Sting was born. A long time ago, but not that long. People's lives were ruined and the world was a very dangerous place because of it.
It seems as though these folks are just another clown show. And perhaps they are. Let's hope so.
BTW: If you haven't seen this video of the man Malkin says is her new inspiration, take a look at it.
And it's always worth taking a look at this every once in a while. Just as a refresher.
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