Andrew C. McCarthy has tackled the left's bizarre (and infantile) penchant for Nazi analogies over at the National Review. It's a good read. Anything I post is a good read.
I post it because for over a year I've talked about this on and off in various ways.
Are we secretly and sadistically trying to extract the "good" side of Nazi socialist policies? How many times have I read scholars talk about how their stimulus programs saved their economy. What, I'm supposed to overlook one of the most evil and heinous regime in history because they knew how to control the economy through the state? How obscene!
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Health care reform is consuming Americans to bits, eh?
Hm. Let's see.
This is rich.
Nancy Pelosi, you know the third most powerful person in American politics who called Americans protesting health care reform bill 'Nazis' (technically, she said they were carrying 'swastikas' but hey), is seen on this video saying how much she loves protestors.
Recently, she was quoted as saying it was "un-American." Yet, isn't that the base of American history? America is built on revolutionary ideals. Shouting and confronting politicians is a normal thing in American political history.
Ok. When is it safe to call someone a hypocrite?
Yeah, shouting at politicians is normal for Americans. Especially when the goal is to totally discredit a president who is Black! I would disagree with Pelosi by calling the tea-baggers, birthers and town-hallers nazis. They are, in my opinion, more fascist. Fascism always has one class of citizens that is considered superior (good) to another (bad) based upon race, creed or origin. It is possible to be both a republic and a fascist state. The preferred class lives in a republic while the oppressed class lives in a fascist state. Sound familiar? Just ask Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman - or even better Mark Sanford. LOL!! "Let's show those uppity negroes who's in charge here in the United State of Amurica!"
ReplyDeleteYep. The right-wing fundamentalist Christians are successfully making fools of themselves. There shall be no health care reform; because Jesus does not want us to take care of the sick nor the poor! That's socialism!
Ironically, these socialism-a -phobes, are mostly lower class, barely literate folks are the ones who live on their monthly Social Security checks and who who benefit from Medicare or Medicaid (let's not forget Food stamps).
What a mess!
Listen to this recent interview which sheds a lot of light on the so-called town-hallers. I will go further and talk of Dominionists. I will leave The Commentator research this dangerous band of wing-nuts who are trying to install a Christian theocracy in the United States.
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Thank you for your comments; though I wish you'd leave a name. It feels all so, well, cloak and daggerish. I normally delete such comments but I feel this merits being spared.
ReplyDeleteOoo.
You bring up many points.
I won't go the fascist/republic thing you interestingly point out in the interest of time.
Are you suggesting this is "racial?" If we lay this card, then how to distinguish between legit criticism of Obama and not?
If the race card is to be played, then it can spit right back at those who assert it. Obama is not without his dubious "racial" past, right?
I'm not suggesting there's no element of this, but is it a zero-sum issue? Not sure.
Onto the townhallers. Well, while it's true the far Christian right threaten the democracy (and it sounds as though corporate interests are paying for them. Then again, union thugs have made their way there too) there's another side to that coin. Believe it or not, certain elements of Christian political thought does have some merit. It's not all evil and bad.
Check out 'Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy' by Meade at Foreign Affairs.
Oh, and I've already commented on them a few times over the years!
I'm just as wary of the far left. The left can be just as ridiculous and infantile. They may not be an organized religion but they're a disturbing voice nonetheless.
Sure, there are some scare tactics but the far left has behaved in dubious ways as well - Moveon, ACORN for example. They make fools of themselves too.
The truth is both parties have trampled on the constitution. Both support big government and both have lost their way. It seems like old world liberals and conservatives have been squeezed out of the equation.
Everyone talks about the GOP being in the pocket of corps. but aren't the 'Crats also? Isn't Obama beholden to them too? Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, GE and big pharma all support him financially too? While in the U.S. the right and left have gone in complete opposite direction, in Canada they seem to have merged. Being conservative or liberal in Canada is almost meaningless.
It's hard to decipher who is "fascist." Maybe there are fascist tendencies but outright fascist? Wasn't Chretien a "benevolent dictator?" I thought North America was also socialist! I'm so confused.
I know some are saying the Tea baggers are "militants" but I've heard them being interviewed and they sound more like community organizers. In any event, these are just my perceptions based on what I see and hear which isn't always a good thing.
Check out Dave Nalle at blogcritics about this. I forget the title of his article.
Sorry if my thoughts come across as scattered but I have to run!