The Right feels they and they alone have inherited the mantle of the founding fucking fathers. They feel liberals have no respect for American tradition and history. The Right feels they alone love their country, love their family, and have respect for the work ethic. The liberals are traitors, have no family values, and are lazy welfare cheats. In the Conservative playbook, Libs have no morals (especially when it comes to sex), they hate free enterprise (they all are commie sympathizers), they don't believe in punishing criminals (especially sex perverts), in their book, Conservatives have a god-given duty to stop this menace, wipe out this evil. Besides, the Libs just want to raise taxes and give the money to lazy wetbacks and blacks so they'll vote Democratic. All the Democrats want to do is make it hard on honest businessmen by taxing and regulating them to death, so they can steal their stuff. That's why they made up that Global Warming Hoax, right?

Faced with monsters like this, the Right feels everything, ANYTHING, is fair when it comes to fighting them. And since the Libs don't believe in god, either, then god has given REAL Americans permission to do whatever it takes to wipe them out once and for all.

The diminishing, and increasingly impoverished, American middle and working class have been fed a steady diet of this just like deteriorating 1930s German civil society was systematically convinced that all their problems were due to the Jews. It is this deep, fundamental hatred, fear and ignorance of what they have decided Liberals are all about that is fueling modern Conservatism today.

And by "Conservatism", I don't mean a concern for balancing the budget, strong national defense and law 'n' order; nobody is against that. I mean the trembling, shivering hatred, the sputtering, lip-curling rage we see in the Tea Party, from all the Republican Candidates, and on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. This goes a lot deeper than a civil disagreement on tax policy or public health measures. This is a doomed ruling class fighting for its life, and painting their enemies as demons from hell to help bolster their courage. And in a pinch, any enemy will do, and any ally they can enlist to follow them is fair game.

Think of it, man. Who are the only people in this country today who are doing really well as a class? Not only are they doing well, they are better off than they were just a few years ago, and they are doing better every day. Put your finger on that and everything else falls right into place.

Read William L. Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". This is an old movie, I've seen it before and I've memorized the dialogue. And I don't like how it turns out.