Who really defines the tea party rhetoric? Who put together the populist meme that drives them? Who crafted and maintained the narrative over the last 15 years?
(over 35 million copies sold)
Hal Lindsey, Late Great Planet Earth
The Late, Great Planet Earth is a treatment of literalist, premillennial, dispensational eschatology. As such, it compared end-time prophecies in the Bible with then-current events in an attempt to broadly predict future scenarios leading to the rapture of believers before the tribulation and Second Coming of Christ
What we are seeing is a massive populist backlash of crazy, predicated on biblical prophecy.
It is a linking-up between secular anti-government libertarians and fear-based (or righteous based, however you look at it) right-wing prophesy nutjobs.
Who really defines their rhetoric? Who put together the populist meme that drives them? Who crafted and maintained the narrative?
Alex Jones
Alex Jones has been crafting the NWO conspiracy language for over 12 years. He has been ardently opposed to Nafta, the Iraq War, Immigration, President Obama, President Bush, Gun Control, and a myriad of other issues that we see behind the Tea Party movement.
All of these issues can be summed up in a single meme:
A global conspiracy of NWO bankers are attempting to destroy America by creating a socialist state. These bankers want to destroy America so that they can be free to establish a form of global fascist control via a global (socialist) government (by definition: the New World Order). For the religious crowd, the reason that this process is happening is because the bible prophecies in Revelation dictate that the one-world government must be put into place for the rise of the Anti-christ. Good people who are aware of this are opposed to it and realize that only a strict resurgence in constitutional government (libertarian meme) will prevent this from happening. (yes really)
Virginia Delegates Pass Bill That Bans Chip Implants as ‘Mark of the Beast’
The "New Right" is a confluence of rhetorics between two groups: The conservative "values voters" who bought into the end-times meme of the late twentieth century and the anti-government libertarians who believe that a global cabal of bankers are trying to take over the world and institute a form of global socialism that equates to global poverty and serfdom.
This interview with producer Aaron Russo by Alex Jones (of course) embodies this meme in a very straight-forward way.
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The Interview
NWO Bible Prophecy Meme
Rebuilding of the temple in Revelations
Human Microchip as the Mark of the Beast, Virginia Law
It was since solidified in the public mind by the overwhelmingly popular (65 million sold) Left Behind series
(sales 65 million worldwide)
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So, here is Alex Jones.
His defining expose on how Barack Obama is a tool of the New World Order conspiracists and how they are attempting to destroy America and replace it with a one-world government and a microchip implant mandated, moneyless economy.
This video has over 6 million views on youtube. If you watch it you will see the common populist memes held by the tea party. Even the very language that they use is crafted directly from this video.
It is these people who are so afraid of being taken down the road to hell: Older christian (mostly southern evangelists) who believe in the end times, expect the anti-christ and know that bible prophecy requires a one-world government leader to arise (the anti-christ) before the return of Jesus.
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So, you were wondering why these people are so easily influenced by hyperbolic rhetoric? How they are taken in by fantastical claims that seemed so surreal, so unrealistic that they couldn't possibly be based in reality? Well, you were right.
What we are seeing is a massive populist backlash of crazy, predicated on biblical prophecy.
It is a linking-up between secular anti-government libertarians and fear-based (or righteous based, however you look at it) right-wing prophesy nutjobs.
-innereye