Episode XCIII of The American Political Melodrama:Queer Atheist on candidate John Huntsman, the Mirage of Moderation

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/21/huntsman-s-gay-rights-shakeup.html?om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BOAeUMB8cA9gDk


The American Psyche was pushed into political irrationalism by September 11th with the assistance of the Neo-Fascists, Neo-Conservatives, and War Mongers who pounced on the opportunity to pursue the American Imperial Dream of Endless War and the concomitant project of the wholesale destruction of constitutional governance, with the nullification of habeas corpus. That is the historical frame of American politics that partakes of that political irrationalism and feeds upon the cultivated paranoia that is a necessary part of that endeavor: The Other is the object of not only suspicion but the active subverter of American Tribalism. Muslim and the LGBTI communities have borne the brunt of this manufactured hysteria. Enter the political arena John Huntsman of The Sclerotic Old White Guy Party, a moderate voice among the shrill voices of the not so new American Paranoia. My rage and skepticism are high, that my civil rights, the exercise of my inherent civic virtue, as argued in our founding documents, will be bought over the bodies of how many innocents, in the pursuit of that malign murderous reverie.

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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