Tucker Carlson and the Right-Wing Love Affair With Putin: Peter Savodnik
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- Feb 20, 2024
Last week, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny joined a long line of ordinary and noble people who were and are the victims of Stalinist tyranny and now Russian authoritarianis...
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Feb 21, 2024
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"In a healthy democracy, if we still were one, Americans would recognize such a double stunt— granting a sycophantic interview to a supervillain and then trashing the United States and praising Russia while onstage in Dubai— that should surely be greeted with condemnation, shame or both. But we don’t appear to live in that country right now. Instead, Tucker’s interview was greeted with applause by many on America’s New Right."
Hearing that in the video, I'm reminded in this passage from the Bible.
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." - Isaiah 5:20
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Feb 21, 2024
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"And then there was Joey Mannarino, a podcaster, who told his followers that he’d “take Putin over Biden any day of the week.” This is the Rubicon that, until recently, no sane American would have dared to cross."
My Thoughts: Our party loyalties, our carte blanche allegience to certain people and parties enables our spiral downward. We are willing to support worse and worse people. The way to stop this is to ask ourselves, what would the person I'm supporting have to say or do that would cost him/them my carte blanche support? If we don't have that, we're going to spiral into deeper moral poverty to support them. The question I ask myself is, if Satan were to offer me what I wanted, would I support and vote for him? If he was for the issues I cared about? If he said he'd fix the problems I wanted fix?
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Feb 21, 2024
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"But now the great tsunami of stupid has swept the nation. Conservatives, just like progressives before them, are unthinkingly condemning all things America, because America, you see, is rotten, bankrupt, over.
Now, the way each camp, the left and the right, arrived at their own species of anti-Americanism was different, of course. For the left, there was always something repugnant about the inequities and unfairnesses of democratic capitalism, and above all, of course, America. For the right, it was the fall from grace, the loss of virtue, and the betrayal of the American dream by a corrupt elite."
My Thoughts: As someone who is concerned about both the radical left and the radical right, and has shed my carte blanche allegience to the Republican party, I see what both sides see in the other. The woke and anti-woke are both problematic. As Matt said earlier about the false dicotomy of Republicans and Democrats... I agree. They are the same, just different versions of it.
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Feb 21, 2024
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"And American right-wingers are so eager to demolish their political foes that they will cheer on someone, anyone who would literally do just that."
My Thoughts: Our political enemies are unifying us. And our desire for their punishment is strong. Trump's campaign message is "I am your retribution". He found his message.
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Feb 21, 2024
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"What they don’t grasp is that the strongman is the opposite of strong... We know why so many on the American right are confused. They have been engulfed by a tornado of tribalistic furies. They have succumbed to the same idiocy and myopia that gripped so many progressive identitarians."
My thoughts: We are morally impoverished, and we've embraced godless / secular moral reasoning. The Christians in our country have become that best at it, and its deeply disapointing. But I'm one of them, so its something we've all got to go through and continue to go through.