Where Are All the Moderate Rightwingers?
The other night I caught Jonah Goldberg flogging his book, "Liberal Fascism", on the Daily Show. It was cringingly awful (the interview, the book just sounds like a long and boring joke) but I stuck with it for reasons I'll explain later in this paragraph. Jon Stewart was clearly still in "ohjustfuckoff" mode from his interview with David Frum and, although it was painful to watch Jonah Goldberg try desperately to pretend "Liberal Fascism" isn't just another ridiculous 100% Rightwing Republican propaganda pamphlet tossed off in time for the Presidential Primaries - a preaching to the converted "book", as it were - well, it was either that or studying French for the last few minutes of my waking hours.
But since the same guys who write books called "Liberal Fascism" are the same guys who cry out in the mainstream media, "Where are the moderate Muslims?", while they back Bush's War on Terror - still - 100% (with any wavering being on the question of whether or not he's gone far enough fast enough), I just thought I'd ask in today's entry, "Where are the moderate Rightwingers?"
Because let's face it - these guys (and Ann Coulter) are 100% in all their Rightwing beliefs and they permeate the mainstream media like, like, like - cat pee on a doormat. Ferchrissakes, for all their claims to belief in Freedom of Speech, they don't even believe in a woman's right to excerise control over her own reproduction.
It's Freedom of their Speech they want protected, while War on Terror/War in Afghanistan dissenters are supposed to preface every argument with "I support the troops" or risk ending up on a no-fly list or a security watch or Gawd knows what lists we don't even know about that have sprung up as a result of 100% Rightwing Republican and New Conservative politicians and their supporters.
Their guys, the guys 100% Rightwingers heil, Bush Inc. and Harper Co., have overseen an invasion into our personal lives, activities, and information histories like nothing that happened even during a time when the world really WAS at war. There's been an unprecedented challenge to our personal freedoms by the Rightwing Establishment they support - 100% - with unelected CEOs essentially being given the power to re-write our national security laws and new Ministries being created to enact and entrench them such that much of what has been done can never be undone.
So where are all the moderate Rightwingers? Certainly, they aren't in the mainstream media, where many of these 100% Rightwingers have been given a pulpit by their employers to spout endless streams of propaganda to naive and frightened fellow travellers. I mean, take a look at some of those 100% Rightwing internet sites and the comments people make on them if you really want to get the willies.
The Rightwing Menace isn't coming, Dear Reader - it's here and it's in power and things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better because the damage they've done hasn't even begun to be felt yet.
Perhaps, at least, as a way to counteract the propaganda these 100% Rightwingers spew in the mainstream media, every time someone who is 100% Rightwing claims to be Libertarian, we should just say out loud to anyone who may happend to be listening, "You mean Libertarian Fabulist. Yes. There's a book by Jonah Goldberg called "Libertarian Fabulism"." Why pretend any of what they say is the truth. It's gone so well past "You can't handle the truth" for these 100% Rightwingers, that most of them wouldn't know the truth if it bit them in the ass.
Still, the problem is - they vote. And they vote for Fascism when they vote because Fascism works for them. It keeps them employed and on the talk show circuit even when the book they're flogging is just another predicatable 100% Rightwing screed incorrectly titled as the opposite of what is actually is - "Libertarian Fabulism".
I mean, Karl Rove, who should be in jail, will soon be flogging a book - a book he has been writing while at work, apparently, too. Yeah, sure, Dude. Don't bother DOING YOUR JOB - just get on those memoirs and start peddling your traitorous 100% Rightwing rationalizations as to why you've left your country the mess that you have with individual rights and freedoms nipped and tucked for the convenience of the State and its rogue foreign policies and no way of going back to when they mattered.
Seriously, all you Moderate Rightwingers - don't buy the books of these Rightwing Fanatics - okay? You're only contributing to the Menace of Rightwing Fanaticism, herein known on SooeySays as Libertarian Fabulism.
