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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

A link to the original site of the essay above. I had lost it among my archives since the link gives no clue as to its content.

I don’t expect it to alter the views of the 23%ers

I have friends who held the most absurd views on Clinton and accused him, with no evidence whatsoever, of doing many of the things we have evidence that Bush/Cheney have done.

The entire black-helicopter conspiracy theory concerning eavesdropping, NATO, the UN and Jewish bankers, comes from the wingnuts of the 90’s and before. And yet when American citizens are actually spied on, the balance of trade tossed into the abyss, the doctrine of pre-emtive war made policy (by the first major power since the 1930’s Germany for the obligatory invocation of Godwins Law) and propaganda/PR practiced at the highest levels of government, the “conservatives” are silent.

BTW: For those interested in the current “playbooks” original source document, here is the link.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

The core belief that supports Bush is no longer conservatism, it is naked nationalism and if left unchecked will lead to the precipitous decline of this republic Amid the very social upheavals the conservatives believe they are defending us from.

“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage-torture, the use of hostages, forced labor, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when committed by ‘our’ side.… The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

George Orwell,“Notes on Nationalism.” ,1945

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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

A link to the original site of the essay above. I had lost it among my archives since the link gives no clue as to its content.

I don’t expect it to alter the views of the 23%ers

I have friends who held the most absurd views on Clinton and accused him, with no evidence whatsoever, of doing many of the things we have evidence that Bush/Cheney have done.

The entire black-helicopter conspiracy theory concerning eavesdropping, NATO, the UN and Jewish bankers, comes from the wingnuts of the 90’s and before. And yet when American citizens are actually spied on, the balance of trade tossed into the abyss, the doctrine of pre-emtive war made policy (by the first major power since the 1930’s Germany for the obligatory invocation of Godwins Law) and propaganda/PR practiced at the highest levels of government, the “conservatives” are silent.

BTW: For those interested in the current “playbooks” original source document, here is the link.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

The core belief that supports Bush is no longer conservatism, it is naked nationalism and if left unchecked will lead to the precipitous decline of this republic Amid the very social upheavals the conservatives believe they are defending us from.

“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage-torture, the use of hostages, forced labor, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when committed by ‘our’ side.… The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

George Orwell,“Notes on Nationalism.” ,1945

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