The Seductive Power of Right-Wing Persecution Politics
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 29th, 2011 5:35 am by HL
The Seductive Power of Right-Wing Persecution Politics
First, I’d like to thank Josh Marshall for inviting me to participate in TPM’s Book Club and Versha Sharma for setting everything up. I’ve been a devoted reader of Talking Points Memo ever since the 2004 elections. Then in 2008,…
Paranoia Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out To Get You
As Michael Wolraich argues here, that some people no doubt enjoy feeling persecuted. Being downtrodden has the downside of all the trodding but the upside of moral superiority. It also allows the true believer to escape taking responsibility for…
Challenging Right-Wing Paranoia
Thank you, Barry, for your great comment. I think your description of perplexity when facing someone arguing that unicorns lived on the on the ark eloquently captures that feelings that many of us have in response to some of the…