Ripped off from the term "BUSH DERANGEMENT SYNDROME" (BDS).
And then entire hardcore punk movement owes Ronald Reagan a debt of (in)gratitude for giving them a choice icon for their album art.
The pantywaist in chief can't handle the heat.
Posted on 09/14/2009 12:17:39 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Republicans are now benefiting from the tens of thousands of angry white people who descended on Washington over the weekend—but they’ve tapped into something ugly that they can’t control, says John Avlon.
The weirdness of the Wingnut summer isn’t over. The anger has metastasized into the body politic, and it’s going to get a lot uglier from here.
Obama Derangement Syndrome is establishing itself as a potent political force, able to rally tens of thousands of citizens to the Washington Mall after Glenn Beck’s call. Joe Wilson’s outburst isn’t an embarrassment of incivility to these folks; it is a rallying cry for an army of useful idiots. But Republicans will soon find that they cannot contain or moderate this strain—while Democrats won’t understand what hit them.
The wave of white people that descended on Washington, D.C., this Saturday wasn’t motivated by simple racism, as some liberals might wish—at least that’s what the lady waving the Confederate flag told me. No, this was something else: a pent-up frustration at unprecedented Washington overspending and an individualistic resentment of the welfare state, all mixed with a dose of self-referential patriotism and a spicy dash of paranoia.
These are the American flag-brandishing patriots who dare to call the president a communist and a would-be dictator. As more than one T-shirt put it, they are exercising their First Amendment rights so they don’t have to exercise their Second Amendment rights—yet.
It was hard to tell whether the pictures of the Founding Fathers on T-shirts and posters outnumbered references to Hitler or Lenin, but these folks are riffing off history. They know their Constitution and their Tom Paine, via Glenn Beck.
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Reads like Tokyo Rose.
Conservatives are a mob. Liberals are protesters.
“it is a rallying cry for an army of useful idiots”
Who are the idiots useful to? The authgor must be aware of the phrase’s origin. Is he suggesting some sort of equivalence between Glenn Beck and V.I. Lenin?
Remember!!
It’s “MOB RULE!!” when we do it, it’s “Patriotic Dissent” when they do it.
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On no... the Daily Beast (whatever the hell that is) is saying mean things about me. What ever will I do?
Glen Beck is the new Sarah Palin to the left.
Majority rule is a terrible thing, a terrible thing. Democracy is no more or less than mob rule. Where’s my pitchfork, anyway? /s
the left thinks everything’s a cult-of-personality because, to them, it is.
The same leftists who are always insisting that we live in a Democracy and not a Republic are now decrying ‘mob rule’. Isn’t the definition of Democracy, ‘mob rule’?
The control of the GOP needs to go to those who care (about the Constitution, language, border, culture, keeping Jihadists at bay, personal responsibility, balanced budget, etc.).
Ripped off from the term "BUSH DERANGEMENT SYNDROME" (BDS).
And then entire hardcore punk movement owes Ronald Reagan a debt of (in)gratitude for giving them a choice icon for their album art.
The pantywaist in chief can't handle the heat.
Whatsa matter, John Avlon? No arrests or trash to speak of, so you have to rely upon your small minded hatred and hangups?
This author actually has a pretty good grasp of what is upsetting to liberty loving patriots, but he chooses to poo-poo it.
They just got done celebrating 40 years since the protests at Woodstock and here hundreds of thousands of conservatives gather and it is a “mob”. Yeah. Right.
There is no truth in the Pravda Media.
If Obama ever got everything he wanted, fools like the author would find themselves in the short line to labor camps, having served their usefulness.
I love all these groupthink mindguard pieces. They ignore us at their own peril.
All the people I saw in D.C. each represented thousands more who could not make the journey. We have family and friends.
Their audiences are shrinking. Ours are growing.
And the words still ring true today.
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