02.20.12
Leprosy or Santorum? (continued)
The drummer in the DD band passes along an Alternet article, one delving into the right wing fascism of the GOP voter, a phenomenon described by social scientist Robert Altemeyer on his introductory to the book, The Authoritarians.
Rick Santorum is entirely cut from the nasty cloth described by Altemeyer. The more he is in the news, his words published nationwide, the more despicable he appears to those not exactly like him.
If you were asked to imagine a presidential candidate as horrid and horrifying as Rick Santorum more than a decade ago you likely wouldn’t have been able to match the reality. Conversely, it’s Santorum’s most insane bits which now put him, perhaps only momentarily, at the top of the heap for the psychopath vote. To paraphrase Shakespeare, they like Santorum because he’s so toxic he could poison poison.
The Alternet piece, in total seriousness, excerpts a bit taken from the Volkische Beobachter, the newspaper of Hitler’s Nazi Party, and asks readers to compare it with the utterances of Rick Santorum.
The words are a bit stilted but the point, unfortunately, is well taken:
Hence, the right wing’s ongoing attempts to erase the separation of church and state, its crusade against Planned Parenthood, its strange obsession with gays. Consider the following political platform, which sounds almost as if it were taken from a speech by Rick Santorum:
The preservation of the family with many children is a matter of biological concept and national feeling. The family with many children must be preserved … because it is a highly valuable, indispensable part of the … nation. Valuable and indispensable not only because it alone guarantees the maintenance of the population in the future but because it is the strongest basis of national morality and national culture … The preservation of this family form is a necessity of national and cultural politics … This concept is strictly at variance with the demands for an abolition of paragraph 218; it considers unborn life as sacrosanct. For the legalization of abortion is at variance with the function of the family, which is to produce children and would lead to the definite destruction of the family with many children …
The Alternet article adds the excerpt was published in the Volkische Beobachter in 1931.
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