His animosity towards the South shows up again:
The other tea parties have been silent on the war because of the ties between Christian fundamentalism and military chauvinism. This is due, I suspect, to the tea parties first emanating out of Dixieland, where an old Scots-Irish "cracker" belligerence persists in a romantic view of violence - and where, coincidentally, there happen to be so many US military bases, and families dependent on careers connected with them. The confusions of hellfire Christian theology with governance form an overlayment on this, so you end up with a political culture favoring military adventures abroad and pushing citizens around at home on matters of social behavior (while mouthing a lot of disingenuous nonsense about "liberty").He does have a point, though, about the place of Southrons in the U.S. military. Why do so many cooperate with the empire in such a way? A mistaken form of patriotism.
Much of the rest is rather sensible, though I question how much of an "American common culture" there was to begin with. What is Mr. Kunstler thinking of when he says this?
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