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Bright Light on Breitbart 0

StevenM analysizes why the Breitbarts and the other components of the Republican smear machine exist. A nugget:

But this was really not a surprise event. The right wing has been gunning for every prominent African American they can find from Van Jones to ACORN to Holder himself to Sherrod. They don’t care how they get them. They don’t care about the individual person, or what they have or have not actually done. One’s as good as the other. They are place holders, almost figures in a distant landscape. The right wing is building a narrative, the kind that their followers like: vague, juicy, filled with anger, built on the notion that Obama brought the angry blacks into power and that its going to be reparations all the way down. Fighting it may be hard, but the Obama Administration has to fight it or its going to go down under it. Resentiment, especially when aimed carefully at outsiders and other races, is a very powerful force in people’s lives. It is a marvelous tool for right wing demagogues and for corporatists because it moves people to anger, despair, and lashing out but it hardly ever moves them to question authority or the monied. In other words, its a perfect electoral strategy for a do-nothing party focused on returning to the status quo ante. Get people riled up, beg for money, get your voters out, and then see them subside into quiescence right after the mid terms.

There aren’t enough banksters to elect Republicans, so they peddle fear to the rest of the electorate.

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