pollywog on Nostr: The Left has been programmed to detest any "traditionalist" so any American to the ...
The Left has been programmed to detest any "traditionalist" so any American to the right of Lindsay Graham is someone they just reflexively want destroyed.
Most folks on Nostr are too young to remember this but back during the W years it was interesting to view the cognitive dissonance this created for the American Left.
They were squarely against the "War on Terror" because, in their view, 1) it was against poor, downtrodden brown people and 2) because it was ostensibly being fought for American interests (defending the homeland, oil, allies).
This led to this really strange situation for the Left where they had to reject the traditionalist ways of the brown people we were fighting without indicting them particularly. So, you the Left took to calling all the White conservatives in America the American Taliban or similar. Kos wrote a book called that and there were many others like "Christian Jihad" that made the same point - take the worst of Islam and that's what all of the Christians in America represent. It made it easy for them to convince people that we had our own domestic threat that needed to be repudiated.
Most folks on Nostr are too young to remember this but back during the W years it was interesting to view the cognitive dissonance this created for the American Left.
They were squarely against the "War on Terror" because, in their view, 1) it was against poor, downtrodden brown people and 2) because it was ostensibly being fought for American interests (defending the homeland, oil, allies).
This led to this really strange situation for the Left where they had to reject the traditionalist ways of the brown people we were fighting without indicting them particularly. So, you the Left took to calling all the White conservatives in America the American Taliban or similar. Kos wrote a book called that and there were many others like "Christian Jihad" that made the same point - take the worst of Islam and that's what all of the Christians in America represent. It made it easy for them to convince people that we had our own domestic threat that needed to be repudiated.