Like a few others here at Dkos, I have a perverse fascination for what the wingnuts are thinking, doing and saying. Today I hit the jackpot in an a FreeRepublic article called "The Enemy Within." (warning, link takes you to the cesspool. Read the full article if you have the stomach for it.)
We are engaged in an epic struggle for the future of mankind in which the forces arrayed against us will employ any means necessary, no matter how underhanded or fraudulent they may be, in order to destroy capitalism and subject man to the will of his brothers.
Is the author transported back to Cold War, thinking of the Soviets? Is he worried about the resurgence of Russia? No. Is this bloviation aimed at the Democratic party? Not even.
One might be led to believe that these addle-headed fools are confined to the Democratic Party or some other equally despicable political organization... what must be understood is that there is a faction of the enemy that exists within the Republican Party as well.
He goes on to rail against "the belligerent across the aisle that presents the gravest threat to the natural order," and doubles back to those moderates:
Oh how these traitorous vermin are to be loathed, for which is the more honorable, those who practice the false gospel to which they confess, or the scoundrel who sacrifices man’s freedom at their altar while professing to be an apostate? ... Their only motivation is that of unethical greed, one that lacks any moral foundation, leading to its corruption through duplicitous actions. It is to these men that we must look when attempting to discern the cause for our most recent electoral failures, and it is with these men that blame rests for the subversion of the freedoms of all men.
And the worst crime? The failure to throw mud and engage in sleaze:
Never once did he stand up for what WE believe in, never did he attack those who have sought to do so much harm to all that we believe in ... With all of the rhetorical, philosophical, and ideological ammunition at his disposal, he should have been able to easily disassemble this rube from Chicago.
Never fear, though, the author is swift and keen eyed, with a brilliant solution:
We must run this rabble out of the party, root and branch, and throw them to the wolves to which they pay more allegiance than the party to whom they belong. Is it not better to spend years in the political wilderness than to suffer these fools for one minute longer?
These cowards must not be allowed to besmirch the movement that claims to be the progeny of such great thinkers and leaders as Reagan, Hayek, Thatcher, and Rand.
Absolutely, freepers, absolutely! We on the other side are quaking in our boots with the fear that you will run every reasonable or even semi-reasonable person out of your party.
Note the quasi-religious hysteria, the appeal to the few "true believers" and the declaration that any who oppose them must do so from horrible motives. The "natural order" comment is close to hitlerian.
I'm particularly disturbed by the religious overtones. The exerpts here give the flavor, but leave out such gems as "objectives of our adversary display not only a lack of honor but a cowardice that nauseates the soul" and "those of us who confess to the righteousness of capitalism and freedom."
This confusion of religion with a political party is frightening. The no-think aspect is what David Frum and John Derbyshire have been talking about recently, the crazy wingnuts that will kill their party.
Rant on, freepers, rant on.