Seething hate even Fox News can’t deny: Cliven Bundy is not an outlier

[DonViejo]

There should be no surprise here: GOP thinking is that government "free stuff" is a form of slavery

ARTHUR GOLDWAG

No, all right wingers are not racists, but if you open your ears and listen to what the fringe hate groups that even the likes of Sean Hannity and Fox News can’t deny are racist are saying, if you take the time to read some of their broadsides and books (and especially their footnotes and bibliographies), you would realize two things.

First, that that there is a not-so-golden thread running through American history that connects a certain brand of White Protestant Supremacism with a broad trend of rural populism.

Second, that a lot of modern mainstream Republican wisdom comes down to pretty much exactly what Cliven Bundy said—that a dependence on the “free stuff” that the government hands out is just a more insidious form of slavery.

“The specter of slavery,” I wrote in my book “The New Hate,” “has been a perennial theme in American political polemics, from rants against the British during the run-up to the Revolutionary War to Henry Ford’s International Jew.” Here’s Herman Cain, back in 2011: “Our tax code is the 21st century version of slavery. The IRS has become the overseer of the American people.” And here’s former U.S. Representative Allen West, in 2012: “the Democratic appetite for ever-increasing redistributionary handouts is in fact the most insidious form of slavery remaining in the world today, and it does not promote economic freedom.” Both of those guys are black, so they couldn’t be racist, right?

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. History seems to repeat social and economic themes

from time to time. When ever the Ruling Class feels threatened,their use their resources to push back at the proletariat. We are in one of those moments in our Nations History,as Eisenhower eluded to in his farewell speech,beware of the Military Industrial Complex and the greatest threat to our Democracy will come from a group of very wealthy Oil men from Texas.

Need I say more,the man was dead nuts on,Koch's,Bush's,Bass Family,and the Hunt family. And there are others like the Waltons and the DeVos's.