Advertising and redistricting may not help the GOP much so long as the ultra-right keeps its stranglehold on Congress.

More and more, reporters, commentators, and just ordinary folk are coming to realize that the so-called “debt and deficit crisis” has been overblown in ultra-right propaganda to force unwise and precipitous actions serving purely ideological goals.

And the vehicle that the right wing is using to help further their efforts is the usually-innocuous debt ceiling vote. As Naomi Klein calls it, they are creating chaos to promote “disaster capitalism.”

On Thursday evening (July 28, 2011), while House Speaker John Boehner tried and failed to round up ultra-conservative votes for his debt ceiling bill, author Thomas Frank appeared on CNN to point out that there is indeed no reason whatsoever to consider American national debt, and current budget deficits, an immediate crisis. This author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves and Beggared America, went further to explain that the kinds of cuts pushed by the conservative movement would actually cause a retreat into recession, cost jobs, and prolong economic distress at home and abroad.

Frank did not hesitate to point out that the hard line of the ultra-right is purely ideological. He could have continued on, as it has become evident from his writing, Klein’s writing, the works of economist Joseph Stiglitz, as well as journalists Matt Taibbi and Robert Scheer, that the extreme right wing intends to replace traditional American capitalism with a Japanese-styled cartel political economy. Alex Kerr, in Dogs and Demons: Tales from Japan’s Dark Side, gives a terrifying detailed image of what in fact is almost the nature of relations between business, politicians, and the public in America today – but it has been so in Japan almost since the end of World War II.

An orchestrated, intentional and massive economic crisis in the United States is perfectly acceptable to a great many ultra-right Republicans in the House and Senate. To them it could create the opportunity of several generations, to essentially conduct a legislative coup d’état that would fundamentally alter the character and future of American government, business and private life.

Fortunately, at least now in the waning hours before a possible new collapse brought on, Samson-like, by tearing down the pillars of the national temple of finance, some observers are last getting the message. The propaganda, deceptions and outright lies of the right wing are being exposed, along with the nefarious goals of the national home-wreckers.