09-16-2017, 11:12 AM
(08-21-2017, 02:02 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: A few things made me warm up to Obama or at least, not hate him.
Most of them were the behaviors of fellow Rightists. I can't even properly call them Rightists, because the behaviors were not true Rightist ones. They were actually totalitarian.
Besides all of the racially charged epithets and Birther bullshit during the '08 election, things like the infamous "you lie!" moment. Things like people thinking Putin was some sort of role model. Things like the nauseating repetition of Judge Jeanine vis a vis Bengazi. These were most un-Reagan-like behaviors. It's both sad and amazing to me that people who consider themselves to be on The Right fail to see this. Their powers of self reflection are apparently nearly nil.
I recognized the avoidance of patronage deals and the respect for protocol and precedent in law. Such fits conservative expectations.
As I have suggested in another thread (basically "Imperial Decline"), the Right has begun to seek to bleed the government for easy profits -- something long considered contrary to conservative principle.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.