Monday, April 17, 2006

[political-research] Re: Kevin Phillips - theocons and theocrats

Kevin Phillips' analysis is astute, as far as it goes -- but he's still trapped in the hamster wheel, going nowhere, spinning and spinning with little effect.
 
What these paragraphs leave out is the central role of Israel, the Israel lobby and neoliberals in the mainstream media and the Democratic Party in facilitating the rise of Christian Zionists, Christian fundamentalists, Christian Armageddonists and Christian extremists in the Republican Party and in the conservative movement.  The "liberal" (that is, neoliberal/neoconservative) mainstream media for several decades now have systematically suppressed the voice of mainstream moderate Christians in American life, while amping up the voice of Christian Zionists.  This has been a scientific psychological operation, conducted since at least the 1970s, and no doubt originating in part in Israel, Likud and Mossad.  There is a major book to be written on this subject, including content analysis of mainstream media venues like ABC Nightline over the 1975-2005 time frame with regard to the propagandistic and warped editing of Christian views.
 
How has Kevin Phillips missed all this?  Beats me.  The folks conducting this manipulation of mass opinion hold all Christians in contempt -- they look upon them as useful idiots and cannon fodder.
 
I do think that George W. Bush is authentically nuts about Armageddonist religious beliefs and his certainty (shared by Adolf Hitler) that he is a divine instrument of historical destiny.  With beliefs like these, drunk on messianic euphoria, he may well push the button which unleashes a nuclear attack on Iran.  I suspect that Phillips would agree.
 
I never thought I would say this, but I wonder if the time hasn't come for a military coup in the U.S. by those who are truly committed to the defense of the Constitution.  There are least a dozen high-ranking members of the Bush administration who are good candidates for Nuremberg-style trials.
 
--- In political-research@yahoogroups.com, "LeaNder" <l.l.hahn@...> wrote:
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> http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060501/phillips
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> Theocons and Theocrats
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> by KEVIN PHILLIPS
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> [from the May 1, 2006 issue]

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