The Right's two-pronged religion of rage and self-pity

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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/02/self_absorption/

The Right in this country -- meaning the faction that followed George Bush for the last eight years -- long ago ceased being a movement of political ideas and is driven by two, and only two, extreme emotions: (1) intense, aggressive rage towards their revolving door of enemies, and (2) bottomless self-pity over how unfairly they're being treated. As their imminent defeat looks increasingly likely (potentially on a humiliating scale), these two impulses are in maximum overdrive, feeding off one another in endless self-perpetuation.
The Right's rejection by the public can't possibly be due to anything they have done. It can only be due to some extremely vicious enemy that oppresses them uniquely and so very unfairly. For the moment, they're only losing because The Leftist Mainstream Media hates them and is deeply biased against them. Blue Texan points out just some of the painfully obvious idiocy at the heart of this specific strain of woe-is-me-ism:
It's pretty clear that and the drooling Malkinites in wingnutland are getting ready to blame the corporate media when Obama wins.
The problem with this narrative is that:
a) the GOP has dominated national electoral politics for a decade, in spite of said "liberal media" conspiring to elect Democrats, and;
b) the wingnut bloggers themselves spend lots of time and energy obsessing over the idea that the mainstream media has an ever-diminishing influence/relevance (how many posts has done this year of the New York Times stock price/circulation figures?)
I'm not sure how they square all of this in their little brains exactly, but it makes my head hurt.

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1. K&R

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. In many cases, their rage is justified, but the genius of the Right has been

in channeling that rage toward precisely the wrong targets.

It must be worrisome for the Republican strategists to have populist anger directed at BANKS. Hence the widespread talk of how "unqualified" minority homeowners are responsible for the mess.