My most used quote is from Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean:
Probably about 20 to 25 percent of the adult American population is so right-wing authoritarian, so scared, so self-righteous, so ill-informed, and so dogmatic that nothing you can say or do will change their minds. They would march America into a dictatorship and probably feel that things had improved as a result. … And they are so submissive to their leaders that they will believe and do virtually anything they are told. They are not going to let up and they are not going away.
Based on recent lies promoted by this fearful “adult American population” as evidenced in emails, at town hall meetings, in endless reports from both left and right media, but, more importantly, by the lack of denial of these lies by most, if not all, Republican Senators, this 20 percent of adults controls 40 percent of our US Senate.
Will this 20 percent defeat health care reform, stop the greening of American and green jobs that can’t be exported, defeat the Employee Free Choice Act, foment hatred, racism and worse, and bring a stop to all the change that was voted for last November?
I don’t know, but it is up to us to do our part to work against these fearful conservatives without conscience.
Andy Hailey