Not P but paranoia

[Mark Kohut]

David.

Thanks for this brilliancy from Charles. had missed it so far. (Did
see the Santorum video on Hayes' show though) And I remember that
Monte has read the Sleepwalkers
and it is all so scary.



On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:06 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today Charles Pierce described that long march succinctly:
>
> http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a33766/everything-in-moderation/
>
>  It began with the [Republican Party's] decision to side with the remnants
> of American apartheid. It continued with the decision to ally itself with
> the most virulently retrograde elements of American Protestantism. It was
> energized by the tragic historical truth that this stuff is an effective
> means of gaining political power. The thinking became more and more magical.
> The rhetoric became more and more unhinged. The willingness of the
> Republican party to tolerate an almost limitless amount of sheer public
> lunacy has led us to this moment, where the only answer Santorum dares give
> to a woman who believes the president intended to nuke an American city was
> to say that he wasn't in Washington at the time.
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Ah, the confident clinical detachment of 1964, when a liberal academic
>> firmly planted on New Deal and Great Society could see Birchers and White
>> Citizens' Councils and the Goldwater movement as a passing fever, rather
>> than the beginnings of a long march. I can tell my sons that the mainstream
>> Republican rhetoric of today would have been "lunatic fringe" fifty years
>> ago, and I can see they don't quite believe it because hey, progress, right?
>>
>> ALL of P's California books remind us that San Narciso and Vineland and
>> Gordita Beach are just down the road from Orange County.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I actually believe, based on nothing substantial, that this piece and
>>> the subsequent
>>> book did influence the young Thomas. Crying of Lot 49 mostly, what
>>> with the John Birch
>>> allusions and so much conspiracy drumming.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Fatso Judson <blicerosboy at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
>>> > -
>>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>>
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