Backlash Against Bush Apparent in RNC
With six candidates competing for the party's helm at the winter meetings this week, some committee members are determined to remove the current RNC chairman, Mike Duncan, who is seen as a candidate of the status quo at a time when they want to sever all ties to the former president. Duncan has held the office since 2007, when he ran unopposed after Bush chose him for the post.
Duncan "has never criticized Bush when the president was wrong," said Shawn Steel, an RNC member from California. "He's the agent of the establishment, and we need a change in personnel."
Let's take a closer look at what goes on in the typical "Conservative" mind after the fold. . .
This is what "Conservatives" always do- no President has more faithfully executed the rightard agenda complete with ideological stubbornness than did Shitboy. Not SBtheE* nor St Ronnie did more to implement those policies. But when those policies blow up in their faces it's never the fault of this "perfect" ideology- oh no, they are psychologically incapable of ever honestly examining how their ideology plays out in the real world and how it plays out is exactly how the Plutocracy that has long sponsored and promoted that ideology wants it to play out- BK and discredit the government so it no longer has the ability to do anything for the citizenry nor the power to reign in their depredations while ensuring the pauperization of the former "middle class" so that it no longer has the time or energy to challenge their power (as happened in the 60's and early 70's) while supplying an ample degree of labor, easily exploited and underpaid.
The condition we find our nation in now is almost the Plutocracy's ideal, not quite but its almost mission accomplished- all that's missing is the Police State roll out which is exactly the dividing line between NAF's** and FFF's.*** The problem for your average wingnut now is to reconcile what to them appears disaster, not having been clued in to the real desired effects of the ideology in practice, instead of the paradise of unfettered freedom, low taxation and prosperity they imagined their perfect world view would yield.
A severe and persistent cognitive dissonance results but THAT is easily reconciled. How? Blame the formerly blameless and perfect conservative President for not being either conservative enough or an imagined straying from the dictates of the ideology. This happened with SBtheE too, remember? The recession of late 1990 thru '92 was not caused by the ideology, it was caused by SBtheE raising taxes, remember? A grand crime that lost a lot of wingnut support for SBtheE, as they moved to Perot because of this grand heresy committed by their former darling. Never mind all the tax increases St Ronnie implemented, those are forgotten as the messiah was the perfect conservative and when he wasn't, well that's just not very well remembered.
The wingnut mind is a curious place, devoid of the ability to reason and completely manipulated by the repetition of endless TP's, they are incapable of ever admitting their ideology is flawed and it is because of this that any attempt to bring them into the process of compromise and give and take is doomed to failure. It is no accident a majority of these people profess an unyielding faith in Jesus and the infallibility of the Bible, to question is a sure ticket to hell. So it is with their ideological faith, to question is to challenge the world view their entire psychological makeup is dependent on. To question leads to dissonance and confusion- surely a temporal version of hell on earth. To bargain honestly with their opponents is anathema as these opponents represent the very forces of Satan himself.
Given these observations of wingnut behavior, it's rather easy to see why the blame must fall on an individual and not the belief system itself. To do otherwise is to invite an internal chaos none of them could functionally survive. To them, it is better to be certain that a lie is the truth than it is to delve into the perceived uncertainty rationality in pursuit of the REAL truth invites.
In short, this personality type that most frequently is predisposed to conservative thought is not equipped in any way shape or form to participate honestly and rationally in a Democracy. They are most suited to be the boot licking toadies in a dystopic, fascist new world order. It is best to ignore them for the foolish and defective characters they have long proven themselves to be.
*Shitboy the Elder aka "Poppy Bush" or "41".
** Nasty Assed Fascists aka "Neocons".
*** Friendly Faced Fascists aka "The DLC".