Re: <nettime> Rapture billboard

[navva@earthlink.net]

hey, all, got only a second to comment on neo-cons: remember it is a  
specific tendency of former socialists, almost uniformly jewish east  
coast (NY) intellectuals become right-wing cold war policy hawks.  
Hence no christian rapture.
Neo cons (cf David Brooks, their bastard child) wouldn't hesitate to  
dump the Repubs if necessary.
martha r

On May 30, 2011, at 3:14 PM, David Mandl wrote:

> Hi Patrice--
>
> I think you're giving these people more credit than they deserve.  
> The Neocons, whatever you think of their politics, are a pretty  
> sophisticated bunch. The idea of the Rapture is generally associated  
> with a crackpot (albeit growing) group of Bible Belt fundamentalists  
> from a whole different universe. True, they've mostly been allied  
> with the right wing of the Republican party, but it's a marriage of  
> convenience for the Neocons. The Republicans have thrown crumbs to  
> the religious right to gain their support politically (a brilliant  
> and mostly successful strategy), but they surely roll their eyes at  
> these yokels behind closed doors.
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