http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Vast,_Right-Wing_Conspiracy&feed=atom&action=historyVast, Right-Wing Conspiracy - Revision history2024-03-29T08:21:53ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.21.1http://critiques.us/index.php?title=Vast,_Right-Wing_Conspiracy&diff=134614&oldid=prevMhuben at 15:29, 8 December 20202020-12-08T15:29:02Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They have captured the US Republican Party through an ingenious but simple strategem.  Provide talking points, activist plans and campaign contributions to the most telegenic (but stupid) candidates that can be found.  These candidates are dependent on this right-wing welfare, because they have no ideas of their own.  Would-be candidates with their own ideas can be easily crushed in the primaries for very little campaign financing.  The talking points and activist ideas are provided by part of the vast network of right wing think tanks that has been developed over the past half century, such as [[ALEC]].  People who want to diverge from orthodoxy are shut off from money, ideas, publicity, and other support, and quietly disappear.  This has caused a problem with Republican voters because they actually want to vote for something other than what the orthodox candidate supports.  That's why they are helpless against Trump: he can use more popular ideas than right wing orthodoxy permits, and they can't shut him off.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They have captured the US Republican Party through an ingenious but simple strategem.  Provide talking points, activist plans and campaign contributions to the most telegenic (but stupid) candidates that can be found.  These candidates are dependent on this right-wing welfare, because they have no ideas of their own.  Would-be candidates with their own ideas can be easily crushed in the primaries for very little campaign financing.  The talking points and activist ideas are provided by part of the vast network of right wing think tanks that has been developed over the past half century, such as [[ALEC]].  People who want to diverge from orthodoxy are shut off from money, ideas, publicity, and other support, and quietly disappear.  This has caused a problem with Republican voters because they actually want to vote for something other than what the orthodox candidate supports.  That's why they are helpless against Trump: he can use more popular ideas than right wing orthodoxy permits, and they can't shut him off.</div></td></tr>
</table>Mhubenhttp://critiques.us/index.php?title=Vast,_Right-Wing_Conspiracy&diff=133267&oldid=prevMhuben at 23:26, 30 September 20192019-09-30T23:26:23Z<p></p>
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</table>Mhubenhttp://critiques.us/index.php?title=Vast,_Right-Wing_Conspiracy&diff=132732&oldid=prevMhuben at 12:56, 29 September 20182018-09-29T12:56:57Z<p></p>
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</table>Mhubenhttp://critiques.us/index.php?title=Vast,_Right-Wing_Conspiracy&diff=132730&oldid=prevMhuben at 12:55, 29 September 20182018-09-29T12:55:07Z<p></p>
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</table>Mhubenhttp://critiques.us/index.php?title=Vast,_Right-Wing_Conspiracy&diff=132407&oldid=prevMhuben at 19:05, 12 June 20182018-06-12T19:05:13Z<p></p>
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</table>Mhubenhttp://critiques.us/index.php?title=Vast,_Right-Wing_Conspiracy&diff=132406&oldid=prevMhuben at 19:04, 12 June 20182018-06-12T19:04:17Z<p></p>
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</table>Mhubenhttp://critiques.us/index.php?title=Vast,_Right-Wing_Conspiracy&diff=130250&oldid=prevMhuben at 11:29, 8 June 20162016-06-08T11:29:46Z<p></p>
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