10 Things That Terrify Right-Wingers

[polichick]

AlterNet/By Joshua Holland

These are some of the things that keep American conservatives awake at night.

Modern American conservatism is based on an almost endless series of grievances. Author Thomas Frank coined a term for it: the conservative “plenty-plaint” -- a long and ever-evolving list of personal and cultural gripes dressed up as an ideology.

But there’s also fear! And while it spans the breadth of the movement, this is the year of the Tea Party revolt, when the grassroots right, disgusted with the idea of semi-affordable health-care and tepid financial reforms, is rebelling against even its own establishment. And the divide between the grassroots base and its leadership extends to the very fears that animate them. As we’ll see, the conservative movement’s business-attired hacks and the hard-right Tea Party types waving misspelled signs out in the streets have some very different causes for alarm.

So, here are ten of the most interesting things that absolutely terrify Wingnuttia. First, a few terrors of the real hard-core Right. For the Tea Partier, the midterm GOP primary voter, it’s not just the anxiety over social change that typifies more traditional conservatism. A broad chunk of the GOP base today is animated by wildly unrealistic terrors -- monsters stalking them as the sun sets, perhaps hovering just beyond their peripheral vision.

http://www.alternet.org/story/147159/10_things_that_terrify_right-wingers?page=1


From government concentration camps to unions - and everything in between, this article lists the things that scare righties shitless. Interesting stuff!

[badgerpup]

1. BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA! n/t

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[MineralMan]

2. You beat me to it.

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[izquierdista]

4. It's a scary world out there!

But you sure don't need a union helping you fight it, no sir, no union, no way! :hide: BOO!

[pundaint]

5. Fear drives the Democrats too. We've been offered nothing better than the "lesser of two evils" in

most races. When your strongest argument is "I'm not as bad as the other guy," you don't get my vote anymore.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. What? They left out 'Teh Gays' from this list? n/t

[Tutankhamun]

7. "So, here are ten of the most interesting things that absolutely terrify wingnuttia."

Let it be noted that AlterNet's Joshua Holland did hereby coin the term "wingnuttia". May Mr. Holland's wonderful word cross the lips of every American who doesn't believe that Fox News is fearlessly reporting the unvarnished truth. (Like people who watch Fox News would EVER use the word "unvarnished" when not referring to the floors of their trailers.)

:rofl:

[byrok]

9. I laughed so hard...

a macaroni flew out of my nose.

( I was eating mac & cheese )

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Demeter]

8. Before Reading--Let Me Guess---

1) Freedom (lack of conformity)

2) Diversity within the population (natural variations and cultural differences)

3) Any social contract designed to see that all win (gotta have losers, or there

ARE NO winners!)

4) Anything to do with numbers or hard data (including the census)

5) Anything to do with reality (especially science)

6) Anything that threatens to open the mind to alternatives

7) Equality in any form

8) Being proved a fool or to have erred

9) What else is here?

[applegrove]

10. LOL!

[Catshrink]

11. 10. Unions

"Here’s another one that scares the Right-wing coastal elitists who in fact run the conservative movement, the operatives.

Most people understand that the Right’s corporate patrons don’t care for organized labor because it hurts the bottom line. But there’s another thing to fear: Union members are more likely to vote their economic interests than be blinded by culture war distractions.

In 2004, although George Bush won the votes of white working-class men by 25 percent over John Kerry, blue-collar white guys who belonged to unions broke for Kerry by 21 percent. Charles Noble, a political scientist at IC Long Beach, commented, “Clearly, union members had a different perspective on the election, most likely provided by the unions themselves, which poured millions into educating and mobilizing union households.” In 2008, John McCain beat Obama by 25 percent among all gun owners, but Obama won over union members who pack heat by a 12 percent margin. Guy Molyneux, a partner with Hart Research, which conducted exit polls for the AFL-CIO, told the New York Times that white male union members “supported Mr. Obama over Mr. McCain by a margin of 18 percentage points, while for all white men, exit polls found they backed Mr. McCain by a 16 percent margin.”

White working-class “Reagan Democrats” voting for the colored guy? The horror!"

http://www.alternet.org/story/147159/10_things_that_terrify_right-wingers?page=5

[libodem]

12. They fear any thing that

they can't do to you first.

[OnyxCollie]

13. Socialism!

Terrorist fist bumps!

Teleprompters!

Czars!

Activist judges ignoring states' rights and legislating from the bench! (Bush v Gore? Never heard of 'em.)

Death panels!

Guantanamo detainees!

Government takeover of healthcare!

Taxes!

Illegal immigrants!

American conservatives are afraid of anything corpmedia tells them to be afraid of.