Progressive Vs. Regressive: The Right Wing Wants History to Go Backwards
BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
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Mark Karlin
The latest right wing psychotic hysteria over Barack Obama's Nobel Prize is part of a broader movement of primitivists who fashion themselves "conservatives" because they can't emotionally cope with progress.
Obama represents the reintegration of America into the international community and an effort to move toward peace, rather than conflict.
Both internationally and domestically, as Gore Vidal once noted, the Republican Party is the political equivalent of advocating death; either in permanent wars or in a desire for a lifestyle that runs counter to the evolutionary progress of America and civilization.
When Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh or the GOP politicians repeatedly talk about returning to the world of their childhoods, they are repudiating the historical reality that the history of men and women has been one of evolutionary progress. Our heritage as the human species is to build upon the foundation of those who have come before us.
Perhaps that is why the religious right is so latched onto the concept of Creationism, because with such a worldview life is fixed in a glass bubble from the moment of "Divine creation" to today. There is no history, no advancement, no rational enlightenment, no progress; all is in frozen in the "Divine Word."
Of course, the brownshirt media populists (who are just in it for the big bucks) shill for a less celestial -- although interrelated -- concept of going backwards: they evoke an emotional yearning for a white Christian nation when minorities knew their place, and the male was king.
Ironically, as Barack Obama is awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, the right wing Goebbel wannabes of the airwaves stir up a cauldron of atavism and Know-nothingism that puts America farther and farther behind the rest of the world, which is continuing to advance without the hindrance of a Neanderthal populism that seeks the reversal of evolution, the denial of evolution itself. (Just look at "Communist China" and India, who are economicaly, industrially and scientifically moving forward full steam ahead.)
It is sometimes so difficult and terribly painful to realize that a nation that came so far on its innovation, free spirit, scientific exploration, and liberation from the constraints of feudal systems in Europe is now hampered by a segment of its population and a large part of its media that wallow in ignorance and dreams of going backwards.
Barack Obama represents hope to the world that we can once again become a nation of enlightenment and international engagement, if we can ever overcome the disabling distraction of an army of fools egged on by multi-millionaire media demagogues who live the good life while dangerously stirring up the prejudices and fears of their listeners for a past that reverses the course of human history.
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Look at how many so-called "progressives" right on HERE are making racist, petty asses of themselves over President Obama's Nobel Prize win...
The race card again, "Doc"?
Is that all you have? I know it worked to get your guy the nomination, but it's wearing a little thin, don'tcha think? Besides, .... it's not "racists" laughing at Obama's NPP, ....... it's everyone, including much of the left. Is Glen Greenawald suddenly a racist? Ruth Marcus? Jim White? Mickey Kaus? Peter Beinhart? Richard Cohen? Ezra Klein? Gabriel Rachman? That's just the immediate reaction. Can you imagine what Jon Stewart and SNL are going to do with this? Wow, .....
.... all those liberal (many Obama-supporting) "racists".....
Who'da thunk, huh, "Doc"?
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I hope you choke on it, ya whingeing Big Baby....
Ohhhhhhh, ......
.... so because there are some racists out there who criticize Obama, then everyone who criticizes him is a racist.
Got it.
Hey, "Doc" ...... you do realize there are some sexist pigs out there who regularly attacked Hillary Clinton, too, right? That's funny, because you spent the entire primary season attacking her. Hmmmmmmmmm, ..... I guess, by your logic, we know what that makes you, right, "Doc"?
BTW - Not that you would care (or believe it), but I've personally done more to fight racism and sexism than you could ever hope to in 100 lifetimes.
But I guess that runs contrary to your "Peter and the Racist Wolf" storyline, huh?
You Clinton-haters and your silly fairytales ....
Heh, heh, heh ....
But what does it say about his detractors?
Obama represents the reintegration of America into the international community and an effort to move toward peace, rather than conflict.
Taking, for example, a Cheney who almost exclusively holds up ominous, fearful images of what will happen if we engage those he deems enemies and do not take it to them first without hesitation.
They can accomplish their aims only by virtue of the perceptions they create so they must be accountable for them. This disregard for the comfort, concerns, and hopes of those who do not fall right in line would take years on an analysts couch to unearth if that were even possible. In lieu of that they are consigned to the only thing that remains -- rationalization. There's the rationalization of "what do 5 Norwegians know anyway?" They refuse to accept responsibility for the reactions they engender. Instead they project that onto scapegoats as their inherent nature. "They're just angry..."
Well it's not very compelling but they'll always have that. They can repeat it like a mantra until they are blue in the face but it will take something entirely different to convince others. They'll always have:
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William F Buckley boasted of the role that these self-designated conservatives would play, shouting that "a conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling "Stop!". One wonders why such an educated fellow didn't know about the famous demonstration of King Canute, who ordered the tide to cease advancing - and failing - as a means of demonstrating to his court that there were limits to the power of a king.
American "Conservatives" don't like to adapt to changing conditions, yet as the British Conservative Benjamin Disraeli observed, change is inevitable and constant. Maybe sometime soon, the media will stop presenting "conservatives" as founts of factual knowledge, and we can give them the ignoble disregard they so richly deserve.
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