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The Koch Brothers
The Hard Central Fact Of Contemporary Conservatism
The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die.
The sooner the better.
Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right."
To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice, hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html
Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall
Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass final judgment.
Alternatively, G.K. Chesterton embodies such abundance of generosity that he would not wish eternal damnation on anyone. In his greatest work, Orthodoxy, the Jolly Giant even expresses Universalism: "To hope for all souls is imperative; and it is quite tenable that their salvation is inevitable."
Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold.
Remarkably, none of them are tempted to believe this.
G.K. Chesterton Comments On The Essential Uncharitableness Of The Republican Party
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Republican presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, the living American who has served longest as a White House senior staff adviser, observed: “The Republican philosophy might be summarized thus: To hell with principle; what matters is power, and that we have it, and that they do not.” “Where the Right Went Wrong"
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"The Reign of Morons Is Here," Charles P. Pierce, The Atlantic
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"A Southerner Explains Tea Party Radicalism: The Civil War Is Not Over"
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"The Great Recession Vaporized 40% Of Americas's Net Worth. The Tea Party Intends Worse."
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"The Shutdown Is A Republican Civil War" by Ezra Klein
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Republican Rule And Economic Catastrophe: A Lockstep Relationship"
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"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"
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"Sarah Palin As The Mad Hatter" (Image)
"Republicans for Revolution," A Study In Anarchic Apocalypticism
"Sarah Palin As The Mad Hatter" (Image)
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"Shocking Development: Republicans Shut Down Prefrontal Cortex"
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"Jon Stewart Nails GOP Demands For Re-Opening Government"
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