Daily Kos: 'Movement Conservatism' More Deadly in America Than al-Qaeda

Here’s a sentence you don’t read every day: “Movement Conservatism will kill more innocent Americans than Al-Qaida ever will.” That is, of course, a Daily Kos sentence from Wednesday.

Several hours later, another Kosmonaut insisted the conservative brain has no sense of time, place or direction. Conservatives can barely walk, it seems, let alone talk.

The blogger “LeftHandedMan” was so upset by liberal Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe gave Obama a near "F" for failure when it came to bipartisan outreach. “President Obama. Only the single-most bipartisan U.S. President in modern American history.” Then came the eruption:

The last thirty-plus years have been dominated by the rise of Movement Conservatism.

What are the hallmarks of this era? Besides absolute fealty to the rich and the powerful?

Concern trolling, navel gazing, and the fainting couch becoming institutionalized, but only in one ideological direction, from a deliberately castrated corporate news media. IOKIYAR. A pervasive beltway mentality where it is a bigger outrage to truthfully call somebody who is blatantly lying a liar that it is for that person blatantly lying to lie. Calvinist Austerity. Weaponized De-funding. Citizen's United. Stacking the courts. Everything takes 60 votes. No appointments. A part-time Congress. Lobbyists writing regulations, and then serving as regulators. Hamstrung government, and then it being pointed to as a sign that government cannot ever work. The generation-long and well-funded national voter disenfranchisement operations targeting non-Republican voters. Tax cuts. Megadeficits. A trillion dollar war of choice sold via lies and disinformation campaigns. A near second Great Depression. Civil rights rollbacks. Civil liberties rollbacks. A war on women, the poor, the non-white, the gay, the middle class, the eldery, the hungry, the homeless, the handicapped, the sick, and those on the margins. Both sides do everything equally. There are no such things as facts, only opinions.

Captain Facts thinks it’s not just an opinion that conservatism is fatal:

Movement Conservatism will kill more innocent Americans than Al-Qaida ever will. That is the greatest argument in favor of a more partisan and confrontational Democratic Party. It's a matter of life and death to a lot of innocent people that somebody stop the Right's madness and roll it back.

Does that shock you? It shouldn't. It's the truth. It's just that we live in a time where it is a bigger outrage to call a bold-faed liar a bold-faced liar than to actually be one.

That's how serious the threat we face from the Right is. They are a national security threat. No other force on Earth can cause America to collapse into chaos more successfully over time.

"The Republican Brain" is now being studied in a book by Chris Mooney, whose last tome was “The Republican War on Science.” Mooney’s still on the cutting edge of “climate change,” and the Kosmonaut called simply “Hannah” breaks out the lab coat to offer her scientific opinion:

And what I'd argue is that the people who have found a home in the Republican party are people who suffer from some sensory deficits.  That is, they are lacking most, if not all, of the following:

sense of time
sense of direction
sense of order
sense of connection
sense of surroundings
sense of place
sense of sequence
sense of temperature
sense of rhythm
sense of situation

They exist in the center of the universe, looking out and, if they don't see something, it doesn't exist. So, since they can't see themselves, their sense of self is missing, as well.

Why have these sensorially deprived people found a home in the Republican party?  I suspect it's because, being endemically uncertain about their situation and insecure, they appreciate having a leader to tell them what to do and that's what the "re" in the word Republican stands for, a "rex" or leader of and from the public.

As if the liberals don’t have a “rex” they demand everyone praise.