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Friday, May 1st, 2015

Right-wing lunatics think the military is planning to invade Texas. Here’s why.

Author:     Heather Digby Parton
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Thursday, Apr 30, 2015 02:58 AM PDT
 Link: Right-wing lunatics think the military is planning to invade Texas. Here’s why.
Stephan:   This story has been bubbling along for several days. At first I thought it was a prank, a kind of Onion send up, that would be revealed as such and everyone who have a good laugh. But no, then I realized that in the surreal world of the Theocratic Right this was, as they say, a thing. Surely I thought the Governor and leaders in Texas would bleed the air out of this balloon. As usual though the Rightist parallel universe is even crazier than one can imagine. I see all of this as part of the symptom profile describing the breakdown of rationality in Red value states.
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott Credit: AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner

Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott
Credit: AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner

You have probably heard the lyrics at least a thousand times at televised Republican rallies:

And I’m proud to be an American
Where at least I know I’m free
And I won’t forget the men who died
Who gave that right to me

Those of course are the words to “Proud to be an American” by Lee Greenwood, a song that could almost be described as the conservative national anthem. It perfectly expresses the patriotism of the Real American, the man and woman who love their country without reservation, the ones who boldly invite dissenters to “love it or leave it” and attack anyone who would dare besmirch the red, white and blue. These colors don’t run, hippie…

But something has changed. In fact, it appears that the right wing in this country has become downright hostile to the one government institution they heretofore had defended with every fiber of their being: the military. This […]

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