Chris Mattews: Right Wing Mania Assails Modern America

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Chris Matthews vents about the Right Wing Mania and gets it exactly right.

Transcript: " Let me finish tonight with the Right Wing Mania hitting this country. I’m not talking about people worried, angry even over the bad economy, the high unemployment, the deficit, the rising national debt. Who isn`t worried about those things? Everything that`s been happening in this economy — highlighted by the financial crisis of the fall of 2008 is scary. It`s only added to the concerns — highly justified I think — about the growing tendency of this country to rely on borrowing, not just to offset economic downturns which we were taught in school made sense, but as standard operating procedure.

No, the right-wing mania runs deeper and does no good for America. The Tea Party people just love attacking government— government itself. It`s their favorite attack target: government. As if they had this alternative to running things in a free democratic society. What is their alternative, I wonder?

Why are some talking secession from the Union, like Texas` Rick Perry, saying they`re for the Constitution but they keep talking about dumping all the parts they don`t like. Like the progressive income tax and direct popular election of senators. The only part they do like is the Second Amendment, not for hunting, not for sport, not for self-protection, but to challenge their favorite target — you know, government.

Sharron Angle, running for the U.S. Senate in Nevada, talks about Second Amendment remedies to things they don`t like Congress doing. Give that some thought. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann yesterday created a Tea Party caucus right in Congress itself, even while saying that no one in Congress was responding to Tea Party demands. No one? Not even Republicans? A while back, Bachmann got useful notoriety with her call on this program for a media investigation of Democrats in Congress for what she called anti-American attitudes. She`s talking pure Tea Party now: “the whole government needs to be dumped.”

I forgot something — race. Listen to the birthers. Catch their latest rant about the woman working at the A.G. Department down in Georgia, that mean distortion of her story, and you see a right-wing effort to rip the scab off of America`s hard racial history. People who push this line want to justify racism by finding it on the other side. They want to tear the country apart if it would relieve them of the duty of living in modern America, which I truly believe — despite all their anger — continues to march in making us a more progressive land, something they just can`t stand."

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