How to spot a right wing extremist, a response to Joe Klien

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

http://time-blog.com/swampland/2007/03/since_you_asked.html?iid=chix-digg

--believes the United States is the only fundamentally positive force in the world.

--believes that American imperialism is so wonderful it could never have any negative consequences.

--believes that the decision to go to war in Iraq was to kill a bunch of "ragheads" who attacked us on 911.

--tends to blame others for American failures—i.e. the failure of our NATO allies to fulfill their responsibilities in Afghanistan.

--believes that capitalism, unregulated and untaxed, is the best idea in human history.

--believes American society is perfect (what poverty? what lack of education? what outsourcing?).

--believes that eternal problems like crime and poverty are the the fault of the individual and can never be blamed on society.

--believes that America is a perfect democracy, even though suppression of voter rights continues.

--believes that corporations are always doing the best thing for the world and are fundamentally good.

--believes in a homosexual, abortionista, and Hollywood conspiracy that controls the world.

--is intolerant of ideas.

--dismissively mocks people of different ethnic backgrounds, sexuality, and skin colors.

--regularly uses harsh, vulgar, intolerant language to attack anyone not like themselves.

[muntrv]

1. --has knuckles dragging on the ground.