he common link between Neo-Nazis and the Tea Party lies in the belief that the Federal government is “evil” because it’s coming after your guns, your jobs, your economic opportunities. By logical extension, the Tea Party talks about an imaginary war on the right wing’s cherry picked version of Christianity. As Meeink’s autobiography explains, the nexus between religion and right wing ideology was part of an indoctrination process he endured during his earliest days with the skinheads. It’s also a common element in the Tea Party’s rhetoric which equates good Christianity with its ideology and a deliberate effort to demonize anyone who doesn’t subscribe to their ideology. Again, while this is a common element and possibly a factor in what attracts skinheads to the Tea Party, this is not to say that Tea Party fascism is a full embrace of the skinhead variety. Meink claimed that CNN went to lengths to convey that he shouldn’t comment on the overlap between the fringe right with the Republican Party and Fox news during an interview, for reasons that we can only speculate about. Of course, they have that choice. But the fact remains, the relationship between the fringe and the establishment right wing is a subject that, generally, the corporate media prefers to avoid discussing. In the end this amounts to denying their viewers information about the ties between the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, Fox and people who have dangerous views about race and about the Federal government. These people are also upping the anti with increasingly violent actions that occur more frequently with the rhetoric to match. It’s too dangerous to close our eyes to these connections because they make us uncomfortable.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 20:22:25 +0000
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