{"id":1980,"date":"2008-10-28T09:28:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2022-07-16T10:31:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T15:31:25","slug":"the-long-dark-night-of-my-empty-soullet-me-project-it-on-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1980","title":{"rendered":"The Long Dark Night Of My Empty Soul…Let Me Project It On To You…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been…interesting…to watch the reactions of the heterosexual mainstream to the gradual unraveling of the Bush republican mask.\u00a0 Wow…these people really are Nuts!\u00a0 And…they really Do live in their own separate reality…<\/em>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Yes they do.\u00a0 And now comes the dawn, that they not only live in their own separate reality, they project their own private demons onto everyone who doesn’t live there with them.\u00a0 This from David Krutz Talking Points Memo…<\/p>\n

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Dark Night of the Soul<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Barack Obama is noted for his powerful intellect, but I don’t think he gets nearly enough credit for the mental dexterity it takes to be simultaneously an Islamic theocrat, atheistic communist and national socialist while posing<\/em> as a center left candidate. Those must be the compartmentalization skills they taught him at that Manchurian madrasah in Indonesia.<\/p>\n

The fact that Obama embodies the worst nightmares of so many on the political right says far more about them that it does him.<\/strong> In this piece at The Corner<\/a>, Mark R. Levin, bristling over normally rational conservatives like Colin Powell and Charles Fried falling under Obama’s demagogic spell, pushes ajar the door to his inner psyche, where the horrors are of the communist-cum-Nazi variety. Levin doesn’t go in much for the Obama as closet Muslim nightmare. I’m sure it’s just a failure of imagination.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Emphasis mine.\u00a0 Re-read that sentence again…\u00a0 The fact that Obama embodies the worst nightmares of so many on the political right says far more about them that it does him.<\/em>\u00a0 Ya Think?\u00a0 And here, via Sullivan, is Eric Martin over at The Poorman<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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New meme: Obama is nuclear holocaust Jesus<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Anyone familiar with the history of communism<\/a> knows enough to be terrified by utopian visions. Equally frightening is the staggering breadth of the Moonbat Messiah\u2019s ego. Not long ago<\/a>, Obama told Sunday worshipers in Greenville, South Carolina that they don\u2019t have to wait for any Second Coming:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, et al. had ambitions on a similar scale, although I don\u2019t recall them comparing themselves to God. For the messianic aspect, you normally have to leave politics for cults like Heaven\u2019s Gate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obama isn\u2019t the first to mix Marxist utopianism with cult deification. Jim Jones did it with his Peoples Temple<\/a>. Fortunately Jim Jones never had access to the USA\u2019s nuclear codes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A bit of a misstep here, comparing Obama to Jim Jones, rather than the more evocative Charlie Manson.\u00a0 True, Jones brewed the original Kool-Aid, and did go to darkest Africa swarthiest South America.\u00a0 But Charlie Manson was much scarier, was all about the class and race war, and – and this is critical here – was from the Epochal and Very Scary Late Sixties, rather than the Forgettable and Mostly Embarrassing Late Seventies.\u00a0 Now, one could construct a perfectly serviceable Culture War narrative based on late-70\u2019s resentment – in fact, I can think of 3 without even trying:<\/p>\n

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  1. Obama as secret (black, gay, urban, coastal) disco partisan opposed to salt-of-the-Earth (white, suburban\/rural) Eddie Money fans;<\/li>\n
  2. Obama as secret (London\/NYC, jobless, stoned, callow) anarchist punk rocker\/reggae listener opposed to John McCain\u2019s steady, hard-working Frank Sinatra-listening establishment type;<\/li>\n
  3. Obama as creepy glam transsexual Ziggy Stardust Bowie vs. coked-out fascist<\/a> but sensibly-tailored Thin White Teuton Duke Bowie;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The last one made more sense when it was in my head – substitute some kind of scary forced-busing liberal Negro vs. punk-killing \u201cDeath Wish\u201d Charles Bronson narrative here.\u00a0 It\u2019s not hard.\u00a0 But once you\u2019ve made a narrative choice, you do have to stick with it – you can\u2019t just keep bouncing around, or people become confused.\u00a0 If you are telling the story of a scary vampire, you can\u2019t decide in chapter 2 that he\u2019s also 500 feet tall and radioactive and bent on destroying Tokyo, in chapter 3 that he is actually a giant man-eating shark, and in chapter 4 that he is all this and a super-terrorist trying to plant a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.\u00a0 All of these things are, indeed, scary, but taken together they add up to a muddle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    This is the problem.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just the McCain campaign\u2019s problem – although their inability to pick a narrative and stick to it is a special kind of inexcusable –\u00a0 it\u2019s a problem for the entire wingnut noise machine.\u00a0 Obama is a Marxist Muslim Arab Jesus Black White Terrorist Technocrat Racist Do-Gooder Liberal FDR Stalin Hilter Commie Fascist Gay Womanizing Naive Cynical Insider Noob Boring Radical Unaccomplished Elite Slick Gaffe-Prone Pedophile Pedophile-Seducing Liberation Theology Atheist Etc. & Anti-Etc. with a bunch of scary friends from – wait for it! – the Nineteen Hundred And Sixties.\u00a0 It makes no sense.\u00a0 It\u2019s a jumble sale of fears and scary associations from 50 years of wingnut witch hunts and smear campaigns, a flea market of pre-owned and antique resentments, and if one does detect a semi-consistent 1960\u2019s motif running through it all, that\u2019s because that\u2019s when most of these ideas were coined.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    But Sullivan should have at least recognized all this.\u00a0 Consider the Militant Homosexual: If he’s male he’s a contemptible, mincing, swishing, girlie-boy faggot with limp wrists and a high pitched voice that giggles a lot.\u00a0 He cowers pathetically and hides behind his purse at the first sign of trouble.\u00a0 But he’s also a dangerous psychopathic killer lurking in the alleyways, waiting to pounce out a rip the liver out of you and eat it.\u00a0 Lesbians are male haters who just need a real man but are so ugly they couldn’t get a real man if they wanted one, which they all secretly do.\u00a0 But lesbian are hot…especially when they’re having sex so real men can watch them and get off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Gays are a weak and pathetic minority of very sick and mentally unstable individuals.\u00a0 They are a powerful gay mafia that controls Hollywood and the news media.\u00a0 They lurk in back alleys and dirty slums and engage in petty theft and prostitution to support themselves.\u00a0 They’re a rich and powerful elite who control congress and the courts.\u00a0 Their minds have been completely destroyed by sex and drugs and AIDS.\u00a0 They are clever and scheming and secretly manipulate governments and the media.\u00a0 They are narcissistic.\u00a0 They hate themselves.\u00a0 They have sex with hundreds of partners every night.\u00a0 They are lonely.\u00a0 They engage in every kind of filthy, sadistic, sexual perversion known to man, and invent new ones every day.\u00a0 They are delicate prissy dainty little fairy boys.\u00a0 They have no friends and are incapable of emotional connection.\u00a0 They occupy in a vast secret subculture with its own code words that they all know and recognize.\u00a0 They lurk around schools looking for children to molest.\u00a0 They lurk in public restrooms trying to seduce men into having sex with them…\u00a0<\/p>\n

    The long dark night of the bigot’s soul.\u00a0 When I was busy growing up, black men…negros…coloreds…were shiftless shuffling lazy stupid servents.\u00a0 When they weren’t big and powerful criminal thugs that went around raping white women.\u00a0 The fact that Obama embodies the worst nightmares of so many on the political right says far more about them that it does him.<\/em>\u00a0 But doesn’t it always, no matter whose face the nightmare has?\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Because in the end, it is the world that is their nightmare.\u00a0 The world they cannot cope with.\u00a0 The world that doesn’t need them.\u00a0 Every time we tell them to get the fuck off our backs, we remind them that they need us far more then we need them.\u00a0 And so they despise us a little bit more.\u00a0 And so the nightmare, the demon, the destroyer of worlds, has our face.<\/p>\n

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