Rush and Robertson: Shameless Haiti Wingnuts

[Swede]

The common ground beneath all this callous craziness is a belief that charity begins at home. And for Wingnuts, home has a very narrow definition: fellow fundamentalist Christians or political conservatives, Americans in general, or white Americans in particular. It’s a form of neo-isolationism—a resistance to identifying with the suffering of those outside your narrow tribe. And it’s often accompanied by a bizarre feeling of being misunderstood by the outside world: They isolate themselves and then complain about how lonely they feel.

Too often we wait for a tragedy to unite us. But when those moments occur, most of us remember that what unites us is far greater than what divides us. Addicted to division, Wingnuts can’t drop the posture. They cannot transcend their tribalism. So let them be angry and let us take action.

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