What are you thinking...right now?(Ochenta y dos)

It's interesting to me seeing how the GOP is at least partially reacting to what's going on with Israel and Hamas.

No surprise that based on religion they're against anything having to do with Islam and instead are pro-Israeli (except for when they're talking about Jewish Space Lasers, run of the mill long discredited anti-Jewish conspiracies, openly supporting anti-Semitic individuals and groups, etc.), even if only because their Evangelical base demands it.

What's interesting is that the right wing lovers of authoritarianism party is against the authoritarian Hamas. The right wing haters of anything with even the faintest whiff of Socialism are siding against the authoritarians who attacked a kibbutz; generally speaking, an agriculturally based commune which can be more accurately compared to what the Khmer Rouge were trying to do in Cambodia compared to the rugged individualism pull yourself up by your bootstraps kind of shit GOP right wingers love to talk about. My comparison is general, not total. A kibbutz obviously has nothing to do with forcefully relocating people from urban centers or all that nasty killing of intellectuals, artists, professionals, et. al. The kibbutz is a friendly and benign form of Communism, but Communist none the less and that's really the only facet of comparison with the Khmer Rogue I'm making. You'd think the more fascist wing of the GOP would be happy to see an attack by religious based authoritarians on a peaceful commune practicing Socialism, or maybe they just can't say that quiet part out loud because they know they'd lose their Evangelical support. Maybe the religious factor trumps the authoritarian factor. Maybe it's just a case of cognitive dissonance.

I'm sure it's all way more complicated than all that and I'm just looking at this one particular strange anomaly in a bubble.