http://thinkingmeat.net/2009/12/18/becks-role-in-paranoid-politics It's meat! And it thinks! Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:03:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://thinkingmeat.net/2009/12/18/becks-role-in-paranoid-politics/comment-page-1#comment-42630 Green Eagle Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:28:07 +0000 http://thinkingmeat.net/?p=4951#comment-42630 "the single most pervasive defining characteristic of the right in the United states is paranoia." This has been a defining characteristic of right wing ideology as long as it has existed, and far outside the United States.  As a single example, I would cite the behavior of the German right after World War I- its fabrication of the "stabbed in the back" theory to explain Germany's loss, and the rise of numerous right wing groups, culminating with the Nazis, based on constantly stoked paranoia about bolshevism. “the single most pervasive defining characteristic of the right in the United states is paranoia.”
This has been a defining characteristic of right wing ideology as long as it has existed, and far outside the United States.  As a single example, I would cite the behavior of the German right after World War I- its fabrication of the “stabbed in the back” theory to explain Germany’s loss, and the rise of numerous right wing groups, culminating with the Nazis, based on constantly stoked paranoia about bolshevism.

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