The lies of American Right

Yes Rory, there are things that American Left is conflicted about, and there were that were done by American Left that were wrong - the worst one of these having been political correctness, which I vocally opposed from the start. But given the aggressiveness of American Right in claiming that it is right in every way and that everything that comes from the Left is a menace, it is rightful that they be met at their level and with their own type of uncompromising stridency - which kind of uncompromising stridency they equate with righteousness and strength even as they equate civilized discourse with weakness. Extremes create the middle, and when the Right shouts and the Left puts up and shuts up guess who gets away with their outrageous claims. I've always believed in meeting things at their level instead of throwing good energy after the bad - if you try to be above the fray you get accused of being out of touch; if you are nice you are accused of insincerity; if you are compromising you get accused of weakness. Given the extreme rhetoric and deceptiveness of the American Right, it is for public benefit and for America's benefit that they be met at their level, in just the kind of strident terms that they themselves use.

Anonymously Given (not verified): Of course there's a liberal media just like there's a conservative media! JEEZ! Fox is conservative and MSNBC (the organization that turns black men into white men) is liberal. So what? To make the claim that Fox is right wing and biased and every other news organization is "fair and balanced" is absurd and has no basis in fact.

The merchant (i.e. G.E., Westinghouse, etc.) has no country. Those corporations couldn't care any less what type of crap their news organizations spew as long as they get ratings and bring in the bucks . . . .

Spydermonkey: Don't choke! JEEZ! I'd feel terrible if you did that on account of something that I said. Quite frankly, I could rip at least half of what the author said about the right here apart and point out just as many inconsistencies and hypocrisies on the part of the left.

The Jewish conspiracy thing (ZOG--Zionist Occupation Government) that supposedly is a common belief of the right would be pretty hard for neocons (many of whom are Jewish) to swallow. The same thing goes for the New World Order belief.

The author is taking a tiny subset of the American right--the far out  fringe--who absolutely despise the Republican party and is lumping them in with all of those who happen to be right of center. Rush Limbaugh doesn't even believe in those theories! It's like labeling anyone that's left of center or that takes a liberal view an out and out communist. Obama supporters went ballistic when those in the Tea Party were calling Obama a Nazi and a socialist. The author here is essentially doing the same thing but only using different terminology to describe those that don't march in lock-step with leftist ideology.

It is apparent that you have not read before responding. Here are the points quoted:

3. The Right claims its way to be the most successful way ever invented. And now it is howling about "elites" that have committed the outrageous sin of being more successful than them. Which means that either their first claim - the claim that they've used to destroy every other way of life that existed on Earth or that attempted to come into being in places in which they were operating - is false, and for that reason is their central ideology; or that their elite talk is nothing but conmanship and scapegoating for their own failures. Since they had America for the last decade, once again both are the case. 

4. The Right proclaims that it has superior culture. And yet it claims those who actually care about or contribute to culture to be elitists, snobs, and posers, and sees culture as luxury of the elites. Which means that either their first claim - the claim that they've used to destroy creativity, intellect and beauty in their youth and vastly impoverish America culturally - are false, and for that reason is their central ideology; or that their abuse of culture and its contributors is vast hypocrisy and wrongdoing. Once again, both are the case. 

5. The Right claims to have as its values "responsibility," "family values," and "American patriotism." And yet it put their children and their country $10 trillion in the hole, aggressively denied global warming, claimed anyone who knew to the contrary to be a "greenie" or  "wacko," and is hoping for a violent destruction of the world and all its inhabitants before the children being born now have learned how to read. Which means that either their first claim - the claim that they've used to slander and demonize all in America who aren't them - is a lie, and so is their central ideology; or that they are a bunch of liars and hypocrites. Once again, both are the case. 

"The Right merely has the audacity to claim that there IS a DOMINANT CULTURE. Not a White culture. Not a Male culture. Just a dominant culture."
Which is totally wrong thing to believe, as anyone knows who has actually travelled around America. South is different from Midwest, which is different from Northeast, which is different from Pacific Coast, which is different from the Rockies. In a single metropolitan area we find all kinds of different cultures as well.
" We acknowledge that every other country is entitled to a dominant culture but the USA. "
In a free country, people create their own cultures or go to ones that are appropriate for them. Claiming that there is a dominant culture and using that claim to persecute other cultures prevents people from doing that, which means that doing so suppresses liberty, which means that doing so is anti-American.
" We wouldn't dream of going to France and bitching about the way their culture works and demanding changes. "
Oh, but you do.
"But somehow when someone from an alien culture comes here, we contort and distort our country's culture to suit them."
Your ancestors came from an alien culture. They were influential in shaping American culture, so do people coming in to America now have the right to be.

I was writing about how right-wingers start with "money talks, bulls**t walks" and end with New World Order conspiracy theories about people who are supposedly wealthier than they are and who for that reason must be evil. Capitalism, as you say, has both liberal and conservative contributors, and its greatest contributor in recent decades has been the largely Democratic computer industry. So first the right-wingers claim that capitalism is theirs and the only way; and then when a critical mass of Democrats get wealthy suddenly the world is evil and a satanic global conspiracy of the leftist super-rich is running the world. So which one is it then? It can't be both at once.