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To: INVAR
Here's something for you:

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

57 posted on 09/27/2012 3:49:48 AM PDT by Skylab
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To: Skylab
From the link: American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority. But behind this I believe there is a style of mind that is far from new and that is not necessarily right-wind. I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy

Interesting that on FR, you would post an anti-Conservative/anti-Goldwater screed to apply to a simple observation of facts regarding Romney and how this whole damn election is going.

You must be with the Ruling Class GOP-e.

60 posted on 09/27/2012 7:20:32 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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