Not P but paranoia

[rich]

Sounds a bit like the current election fever in Israel. No wonder the
republicans love Netanyahu

rich

On Thursday, March 19, 2015, 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
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