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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Cliven Bundy Changed Our National Politics
It was a giant mistake for the federal government to let racist freeloader Cliven Bundy and his gun-toting comrades off lightly for an act of genuine sedition. This was obvious from the moment it happened, but it has become increasingly obvious as time has gone by. It has become plain that the Bundy "stand-off" has helped let loose fully upon the country and its politics a strain of wildness that was only barely contained since the power axis of movement conservatism moved south and west from the backyard of the Buckley manse in Connecticut. You can see this in everything from the barely disguised racist refusal to treat the president's election as legitimate, to the hysterical paranoid salesmanship of the NRA, to the stubborn popularity on the stump of He, Trump. And, on its home ground, it's become even worse.
At least they caught this guy before he could kill people the way Bundy acolytes Jerad and Amanda Miller did in Las Vegas. He, Trump is demonstrating to the polite face of the Republican Party what the end result of decades spent playing footsie with an unhinged base can be. Too many conservative Republican politiciansand conservative celebrity media mavenshave worked the spicier end of the Hofstadter buffet with people like Schuyler Barbeau and the Millers. God help us all if somebody like them shows Sean Hannity, or former CNN contributor Dana Loesch, what the end result of that can be.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a40359/cliven-bundy-wildness-conservatism/
The source told agents that Barbeau who claims on his Facebook page to be an ex-U.S. Marine spoke frequently about how "the federal government was not abiding by the principles set forth in the Constitution and that many public servants, such as judges and police officers who had sworn to uphold it, had deviated from their oath of office," according to court documents. Barbeau told the source it was his duty to educate errant public servants and "discussed 'lynching' those he deemed unworthy if necessary," according to a complaint filed under seal Dec. 2. Barbeau and others discussed that they would "physically remove" an unidentified California judge presiding over a misdemeanor-weapons charge Barbeau was facing in that state Barbeau, on his Facebook page, claims he was a member of the security detail for the family of renegade right-wing rancher Cliven Bundy during a standoff with federal agents at Bundy's ranch in Nevada over grazing fees.
At least they caught this guy before he could kill people the way Bundy acolytes Jerad and Amanda Miller did in Las Vegas. He, Trump is demonstrating to the polite face of the Republican Party what the end result of decades spent playing footsie with an unhinged base can be. Too many conservative Republican politiciansand conservative celebrity media mavenshave worked the spicier end of the Hofstadter buffet with people like Schuyler Barbeau and the Millers. God help us all if somebody like them shows Sean Hannity, or former CNN contributor Dana Loesch, what the end result of that can be.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a40359/cliven-bundy-wildness-conservatism/
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How Cliven Bundy Changed Our National Politics (Original Post)
phantom power
Dec 2015
OP
Yeah, that was a new and dangerous level of capitulation to seditionist thugs.
phantom power
Dec 2015
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randys1
(16,286 posts)1. I am still in shock that those assholes could point guns at Federal agents
and nothing was done.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)2. Yeah, that was a new and dangerous level of capitulation to seditionist thugs.
Nothing good is going to come of it.
randys1
(16,286 posts)3. Didnt Texas just push thru a sedition bill? Think so. The day that Black man was elected
tens of millions of white Americans lost their minds.
ALL opposition to Obama from the right (from the right is key here) is based first in racism, ALL.
Sure, there are some issues they were against before they found out he was for them, but everything they do and think starts with uttering the N word under their breath.
Baitball Blogger
(46,745 posts)4. Some people are convinced they are still living in a Frontierland.
But the real crazies are the people who think it's quaint and go along with them.
2naSalit
(86,664 posts)5. It's safer to
avoid voicing one's opinion when surrounded by those who loudly proclaim such a disdain for the government while attempting to become the government. Fortunately voting is still a private activity.
At least that's kind of the way it is in my rural, western neck o' the woods.