Um... could this be "it"?

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Just so newbies don't think this list is an extension of 
Daily Kos...

As usual, Michiko Kakutani is wrong. The American public
managed to get this angry and confused all by itself. 
Richard Hofstadter called this the paranoid style of 
American politics, and his analysis is as valid now as it 
was in 1964:

"American politics has often been an arena for angry
minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work
mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now
demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political
leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of
a small minority. But behind this I believe there is a
style of mind that is far from new and that is not
necessarily right-wing. I call it the paranoid style
simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense
of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial
fantasy that I have in mind."

And then there is this:

'As for Eisenhower himself, Welch characterized him, in
words that have made the candy manufacturer famous, as “a
dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy”—a
conclusion, he added, “based on an accumulation of
detailed evidence so extensive and so palpable that it
seems to put this conviction beyond any reasonable
doubt.”'

https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/

As for Jill Stein as a "Russian asset", there is only one
question:

"How long are American liberals going to put up with this
bullshit?"

Yes. And how many principles are they willing to 
compromise, how many former allies are they willing to 
demonize and marginalize? Parry, Hersh, Assange, Snowden, 
Hedges, Stein... What's next? Martin Luther King as a 
Kremlin stooge, like the FBI always said he was? Black 
Lives Matter as a fifth column of the Kremlin? Susan 
Sarandon as Putin's "useful idiot"?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/28/jill-stein-in-the-crosshairs-the-russia-investigation-shifts-to-clintons-political-rivals/

As C. J. Hopkins says, we are witnessing a war on dissent:

https://consentfactory.org/2018/01/26/the-war-on-dissent/

"If anyone challenges incremental, corporate-funded, 
hyper-militaristic neoliberalism in any way, I know what 
to do: Denounce them! And denounce their master, Putin."

http://www.chris-floyd.com/home/articles/a-liberal-s-confession-16012018.html

The abominable state of the so-called liberal media is 
perfectly illustrated in this interview with the 
Guardian's Luke Harding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ikf1uZli4g

As one observer noted:

"How can you write an entire book called COLLUSION and
then not be able to coherently and convincingly answer a
single question or offer a single fact which undeniably
proves that collusion took place?"



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