Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America
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A wingnut is a name on the far-right or far-left wing of the political spectrum – professional partisans, unhinged activists and paranoid conspiracy theorists. Campaigning as the antidote to polarized politics, Barack Obama promised to transcend the ancient divides of left and right, black and white, red states and blue states. But during his first year in office, he presided over an eruption of despise and hyper-partisanship that mocks the pledge upon which millions ushered him into office.
From Revolutionary War-inspired “Tea Party” protests to the health-care town hall hijackings, principled policy challenger to government spending has taken a sharp right turn into Crazytown. Not to mention death threats to elected leaders and Sarah Palin’s ranting about administration “death panels.” For persons with a vested interest in stirring the crazypot, all of this has been excellent for business – despise is a cheap and simple recruiting tool. But it can be murder on a democracy…
As creator of CNN’s hit segment, “Wingnuts of the Week,” Daily Beast senior political columnist John Avlon has unique insight into how far-left and far-right political extremists came to dominate the country’s political dialogue and, with this audiobook, he shows the way back to a saner, smarter national conversation.
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Don’t waste your money on this Leftist’s trash. He’s just another Socialist who despises the Constitution, distorts truths, and fawns over Progressive Elitists.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
.. go back to sleep. This is a book built on fake premises. Rumor has it that because the likes of Olbermann and Beck are vainglorious asses and featured cogs in the media’s obfuscation machinery, we are to judge that our government – a toy in the hands of industry and/or lobbyists – is essentially “fine.” Avalon’s book itself is just the latest in a long line of specialized paranoid literature. Anyone remember John Foster “Chip” Berlet? He was the guy who based a career on trying to convince Americans that Lyndon LaRouche was the “new Hitler.” Yes, that must be why there are mass demonstrations in major cities calling for the reintroduction of DDT and the rhetorical stoning of anyone who would dare fallow the “nihilist philosophy” of David Hume. Yeah, right. Basically, many of the thoughts deemed “treacherous” by Avalon are not welcome on either FoxNews or MSNBC. They are, in fact, agreed a sort of romantic halo by virtue of their alleged “danger.” We might compare this phenomenon with the post-Anslinger hysteria surrounding marijuana: “worse than heroin.” It’s these sort of extremist reactions that shut down thought and, yes, Avalon is part of that (his defenders/enthusiasts will, no doubt, try to link the recent Pentagon shooter to “too much pot,” such are the limits of their imaginations ..).
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
~Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America~ is one of persons needless books. Besides, I honestly don’t know what is more annoying in politics: fringe lunatics or the busybodies that complain about them relentlessly.
So, are the fringe policos really destroying the political discourse as this book seems to aver? No! Are they airless workable political solutions from being implemented? No! While there are uncouth eccentrics from Left and the Right out there rambling on the blogosphere, public policy formulators have ample opportunity to craft workable political solutions lacking distraction. Their scholarly discourse is entertained by additional scholarly thinkers. Honestly, crafting prudent public policy is not so much a problem as having leaders with the political will to get prudent policies implemented. As John Avlon complains about politics missing substance because of these supposed fringe wing-nuts airless debate, we might question ourselves how substantive is it for us to dwell on banal topics like his book. Is it really a pressing issue? In practical politics, you eventually learn to snub the demagoguery, the hyperbole and smoke and mirror games. You accept that the eccentrics are going to be there. You can permanently snub them and not dwell in their circles, unless you choose to be one.
Having admitted that politics has its eccentrics brings me to my next point. Some of persons labeled fringe, of course, are not fringe; but cataloging them with an ad hominem is a convenient way to eschew debate on a topic for one of their privileged political issues. Honestly, the busybody moderates whose principles are gelatinous and ever-changing are arguably just as much a nuisance in political discourse as anyone. They are so busy engaging in ad hominems while trying to define the limits of discourse in terms of their political correctness, they are just as counter-productive as the fringe wingnuts. Whatever happened to drawing your line in the sand and being a partisan with a backbone?
Alexander Hart place it aptly: “The next time we fret about a few loonies or extremists destroying our cause and movements, we should consider why their presence hasn’t ruined our opponent’s.” The late, fantastic Jewish-American free-market economist Murray Rothbard was once at a Libertarian Party convention in the 1970s. A distressed friend turned to him, and exclaimed, “Oh my God! There are Nazis at this talks.” Rothbard answered, “There’s permanently one.” “What, a Nazi?” his friend queried. “No, a complainer.”
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
When the very take in of this book equates Glenn (Obama has a “deep-seated hatred for white people”) Beck or Sarah (“Death Panels”) Palin with Keith (Bush lied to us about Iraq) Olbermann, then we know what to expect inside (Check [...], or any additional reputable fact-checker to sort it all out for yourself).
And that is the problem with a lot of so-called “centrists”: Either through headline- and power-grabbing intent or simply sloppy research, they try to sell you on the thought that if the Left says, “Two plus two equals four,” but the Right says, “Two plus two equals six,” then let’s just say, “Two plus two equals five.”
Truth and tale are not equals. And that is a huge reason major problems of our nation are not being fixed, or even addressed.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Well worth your time to read, especially in an election year. Gives the reader enough crediable information about the players in the political games in the US.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5