Democrats have a few whopping-bad ideas that we inject from time-to-time into the political system. One of them, the “response” to the State of the Union address, initiated under King Richard of Nixon in 1966, really has to go. [1] Read the rest of this entry »
Last night, the first Republican Presidential primary debate for the 2012 election was awash with all kinds of interesting factoids that were dead-bang wrong. Illusions. Myths. Mendacities. Lies. They project them. collectively and individually, on the Lee Attwater-amplified theory of using the “Big Lie,” a tactic of extremist governance used throughout history, but most clearly stated by the ultimate Right-wing liar and mad-man, Adolph Hitler.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler defines the use of the same Big Lie that is common to the Attwater-Rove era of Republican dogma:
“[I]n the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
Paul Conrad: ProandConrad.com
No matter how far out you go into modern political history from 1972, the ghost of Richard Mihous Nixon, and his administration, follows U.S. presidents.
In Frost/Nixon, Frank Langella gives a very charitable and gentle film performance of one of the most dark and disturbed men ever to hold the White House. Nixon was a man obsessed with power, his personal image, and his place in history.
Nixon was not a nice guy. A friend, many years ago, told me that his brother, who was a Secret Service agent on the Nixon detail well after 1972, came into a bar after one particularly bad day and said: “That’s a hard guy to want to take a bullet for.”
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