This Space for Rent

The stupid, it burns!

Digby has been paying some attention to a right wing thinktank called "Family Security Matters" (a name that right away tells you that something is wrong with the group) and their rapidly-being-sanitized website. She wondered why they'd be sanitizing their website, because normally the right wing kookieheads are proud to let their freak flags fly, and went for a little archive search.

It is wonderful, in the sense that it's a wonder that their spinal cords haven't leapt up and strangled their brains yet. These people are kooks, they've got a mad crush on Maximum Leader Genius, and they are unhappy about the thought that the B*sh junta might just step back and leave the stinking wreck of the United States to someone else.

Yet in 2007 he is generally despised, with many citizens of Western civilization expressing contempt for his person and his policies, sentiments which now abound on the Internet. This rage at President Bush is an inevitable result of the system of government demanded by the people, which is Democracy.

Yup. They don't like the whole idea of a democratic republic and would be just as happy if it went away. So what is their recommended course of action here?

If President Bush copied Julius Caesar by ordering his army to empty Iraq of Arabs and repopulate the country with Americans, he would achieve immediate results: popularity with his military; enrichment of America by converting an Arabian Iraq into an American Iraq (therefore turning it from a liability to an asset); and boost American prestiege while terrifying American enemies.

He could then follow Caesar's example and use his newfound popularity with the military to wield military power to become the first permanent president of America, and end the civil chaos caused by the continually squabbling Congress and the out-of-control Supreme Court.

Yup, they think that Maximum Leader Genius should just formally overthrow the US government and become a slightly kookier version of Baby Doc Duvalier. But this is not what sets them aside from the run of the mill right wing kook site. You notice that they mention "emptying" Iraq of those pesky brown-skinned people so that they can fill it with white folk, but are nicely vague about it. Well, they aren't vague enough about it, because a little earlier down the line they were whining about it's not faaaaaaaiiiir that the Coward in Chief should be blamed for destroying the US military, and a better solution to the (nonexistant) problem of the (nonexistant) Iraqi WMDs was to:

The wisest course would have been for President Bush to use his nuclear weapons to slaughter Iraqis until they complied with his demands, or until they were all dead. Then there would be little risk or expense and no American army would be left exposed. But if he did this, his cowardly electorate would have instantly ended his term of office, if not his freedom or his life.

They think that genocide is a good thing and that if the United States is to survive it needs to start nuking the wogs and replacing them with white people.

That's pretty spectacularly stupid. It's evil, of course, and it would have been responded to by every other country in the world (except for Canada; I'm sure that Stephen Harper would say "what a wonderful idea! Please annex my country now!") boycotting the USA and going into a massive frenzy of bomb-building and the occasional sub rosa transfer of nuclear devices to sufficiently enrange Iraqi refugees ("someone nuked San Diego? Wow, I guess you were right when you said that Iraq was working on The Bomb. Good luck finding the terrorists, oh, and get your ambassador the fuck out of our country before we peg him to the front of a HST and do some collision testing.")

It would be funny if they weren't the sort of people who get to whisper sweet nothings in Darth Cheney's ear (assuming he didn't ghostwrite the thing in the first place,) or if we had an oppositiongoverning (I keep forgetting that the Democrats are allegedly in control of Congress this year) party that wasn't also too timid to govern. As it is it's sort of awe-inspiring in the complete and total disconnect from reality that these neocons have.