This new socialist wave
Apparently Wayne LaPierre is Even More Bonkers now:
To see the National Rifle Association boss speak this week at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference was to see a man in urgent need of mental-health intervention. He turned a conventional speech about guns (specifically, the need for more of them in schools) into a paranoid fantasy about a socialist takeover of the United States.
He saw a “tidal wave” of “European-style socialists bearing down upon us,” creating a “captive society,” eliminating “resistance,” making a “list” in a cloud database of those who spank their children, expunging the “fundamental concept of moral behavior,” controlling speech through “safe zones.”
Yeah, boy, there’s no better index of moral behavior than a country packed with guns. Good people shoot first and ask questions later; bad people say let’s have less shooting ok?
With this “new socialist wave in America,” he said, “it’s just a short hop to the systematic destruction of our most basic freedoms.”
Had LaPierre fallen on his head and awakened in 1964? All that was missing was for him to quote General Jack D. Ripper in “Dr. Strangelove” on “the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
Sterling Hayden ruined that kind of crazy for all time.
LaPierre singled out three billionaire capitalists to blame for the socialist revolution: George Soros, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer. But he saw conspirators everywhere in the government — Trump’s government: the FBI (with its “corruption” and “rogue leadership”) the Justice Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the intelligence agencies. He also blamed the Democrats, media, Hollywood, universities, classrooms, Black Lives Matter, elites and Keith Ellison.
Even the CPAC audience seemed to be stunned by this unhinged time-traveler from the Cold War. “You know, I hear a lot of quiet in this room, and I sense your anxiety,” he said. “And you should be anxious, and you should be frightened.”
Right? You never know when the furious white guy with the AR-15 is going to lurch into view.
What do Soros, Bloomberg, and Steyer all have in common besides being Democratic billionaires, I wonder?
What he doesn’t know is that Soros, Bloomberg, and Steyer are merely MY puppets! Muah ha ha ha HAAAAAH!
I’m guessing he’s okay with the Koch brothers? Right wing billionairs manipulating the political landscape is just fine, then.
Mere coincidence, Seth. Just like last time, and the time before that, stretching back past Martin Luther.
Barely a day ago, an american was busily lecturing me about how the NRA promotes self reliance and bravery, refusing to even consider that maybe they peddle in insecurity to stimulate gun sales.
Game, set, match.
The USA, as a society, has absolutely no concept of what socialism is. Also, the rest of the western world long since gave up looking to the US for moral leadership. Rather we look on it as a dysfunctional family of distant relative. We hope that Jess, the quiet no nonsense liberal, will finally get them to sort their shit out. But we fear that Billy, the deranged ignorant gun fondler is about to show up drunk on our doorstep at any moment.
Meanwhile the lizard people and the Illuminati continue their wicked machinations under the radar. OPEN YOUR EYES WAYNE LA PIERRE YOU BLIND FOOL!
Rob: re, your ‘Jess’ & ‘Billy’
See this analysis of US politics over the last couple of centuries.
http://davidbrin.blogspot.ca/2014/09/phases-of-american-civil-war.html
Brin has more recently stated that 2016 was when the confederacy took Washington.
Very interesting Jim, thanks.