Update:
Apparently this was too crazy, even for Newsmax. Not only have they pulled the story, they're also trying to distance themself from the writer.So, about a year ago, after six years of blogging, I had to give it up. The political season seemed to take a lot out of me, especially the endless stream of ridiculousness from the right--calling Obama a socialist, the "messiah," etc. It became impossible to debate someone about politics because you had to spend too much time correcting the errors in their thinking before you could even get around to dealing with the issues. So I called it quits.
But I can't stay gone. Not because I have some sort of desperately needed insight that will correct the political atmosphere, but because I'm about to have an embolism about the bullshit being spewed by the right these days.
The last straw is
this column by Newsmax writer John Perry, in which he explains why our country needs a military coup. Yeah, he writes that "Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it," but he can't bring himself to actually say explicitly that he doesn't advocate it. Such a comment would ring hollow, of course, when he ends his piece this way.
Anyone who imagines that those thoughts are not weighing heavily on the intellect and conscience of America’s military leadership is lost in a fool’s fog.
Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared responsibility?
[snip]
Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.
Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don’t shrug and say, “We can always worry about that later.”
First, I have to say that this motherfucker, who clearly never served a day in his life, has no idea what is in the mind of a goddamn private, much less what's in the head of a flag officer.
Second, he argues that officers would be thinking this way because they "see the Constitution they are sworn to defend being trampled as American institutions and enterprises are nationalized." I keep hearing this argument from the right:
I want my country back! Quit taking away my rights! They say this stuff directly to the faces of so-called big time journalists who have yet ask the simple question, "What rights have you lost?"
Finally, this should be the final proof of the "patriotism" of the right. No matter how much they claim to support freedom and their nation, as soon as they lose, they reach for their guns, or in the case of this guy, tells others to reach for their guns. As crazy creep Christopher Broughton, the dipshit who took a gun to Obama's health care town hall in Phoenix
tellingly put it, they are threatening to "forcefully resist people
imposing their will on us through the strength of the majority with a vote."
A clearer spokesman for the right's intentions would be harder to find. They will go apeshit whenever a vote doesn't go their way.
And, lest you think it's simply the nuts of the party making these sorts of antidemocratic arguments or that it's racism driving the right crazy, remember that Thomas Sowell was
thinking aloud about the need for a putsch more than two years ago in the supposedly saner confines of the
National Review, writing:
When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.
As
the man said, "Can't
none of this be
new to you."
