Friday, October 30, 2009

IN WINGER WORLD, WE'RE ALWAYS ON THE VERGE OF DISASTER

Glenn Beck's paranoid fantasies have a long pedigree among conservatives, going as far back as at least St. Ronald Reagan in 1964:
Our natural, unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

In the same speech, Reagan sounds like a present day war-whore neocon:
Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face—that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender.

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