problem with hiring paranoids...

[alice malice]

The Paranoid Style in American Politics[1] is an essay by American
historian Richard J. Hofstadter, first published in Harper's Magazine
in November 1964; it served as the title essay of a book by the author
in the same year. Written at a time when Senator Barry Goldwater had
won the Republican Presidential nomination over the more moderate
Nelson A. Rockefeller, Hofstadter's article explores the influence of
conspiracy theory and "movements of suspicious discontent" throughout
American history.

http://www.units.miamioh.edu/havighurstcenter/conferences/documents/shcherbenok.pdf


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very interesting assertion.  Has anyone else written about this?  Good
> article.
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> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
> <roger.rustad at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> http://guardianlv.com/2014/05/ed-snowden-wants-to-come-home-and-why-the-us-needs-him-back/
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>> "So, the presence of two such 'fragile' personalities in the middle of two
>> separate spectacular security failures may not be an accident at all. It may
>> be a side effect of an intentional government policy, one that has led to
>> unfortunate consequences. The problem with hiring paranoids to protect
>> America’s secrets is that it is impossible to determine what those paranoids
>> are going to be paranoid about."
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