Posted on 02/13/2010 11:03:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Anybody inclined to laugh off the current Tea Bag Movement as just a passing fancy involving a few isolated kooks had better guess again.
Analyze what was said at the group's recent convention where Sarah Palin regaled her audience along with the series of preceding rallies cheer led by Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and others and a disturbing trend surfaces.
These Teabaggers hold some discomforting points in common with the Brownshirts of Germany's pre-Third Reich period. Many from the progressive movement in Germany during that period laughed off the appearance of "a funny looking little man with a mustache" along with those "kooky guys in the Brownshirts" as one conclusion was clear to them.
This strange breed of crude malcontents could not hope to prevail in a land of rich culture such as Germany. This was, after all, the nation of Goethe, Bismarck, Bach, Beethoven, Schiller. Yes, Wagner held some of those same bigoted views of Hitler and the Brownshirts, but that was seen by many as a tragic aberration of a great composer and he had a genius that these presumed misfits did not.
So now in America, the land of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Lincoln it is easy enough to pass the crude and noisy antics of Teabaggers of as a passing fad and perhaps make a reference or two on the order of what Rahm Emanuel did the other day.
The only thing to be thankful about concerning the rabble rousing, anti-immigrant bashing speech by demagogic former Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado as he preceded Palin's Obama denouncing oration was that he revealed what he was all about along with the hate hungry audience that cheered his comments with enthusiasm.
Note also the practice of Tancredo and others to refer to the current chief executive as Barack Hussein Obama. The trick is to raise the voice just a tad and emphasize that middle name "Hussein" a little more strongly than his first and last names.
Just what do you suppose that practice connotes? Can it represent the bigoted concept that Obama is a Muslim or close to it and that group allegedly is dominated by terrorists?
Just what was behind demagogic Rudy Guiliani's belittling reference to Obama as a "community organizer" at the Republican Party's hate fest St. Paul convention of 2008? Remember how the delegates cooperated and laughed derisively?
What did Obama's community organizing represent? Was it not an effort to assist impoverished African Americans of Chicago rise economically? Do you suppose for one instant that the sharply ridiculing Guiliani and his kindred spirit listeners did not know this?
For those of you who consider the Tea Bag Movement a passing fad, reflect on the words expressed during the Great Depression thirties by Louisiana's Huey Long, one America's most perceptive political figures.
Long disagreed that America was ripe for Communism. The politician known as The Kingfish added that he thought America, if it did go down a totalitarian path, would be more likely to embrace Fascism.
He then concluded with the following words:
"Only it would not be called Fascism. It would be called Americanism."
Should those words be construed as a warning from the wise?
Huey Long? Was Eugene Debs unavailable for comment?
these lefists are getting more and more insane. what’s next trying to say the founding fathers were early nazis?
Already been said....
Tea Bag Movement? Stupid.
They are preaching to a mass of empty minds, the truth will become what they want it to be!
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“Many from the PROGRESSIVE movement in Germany ...”
Well, that’s interesting.
Huey Long? Wise?
Any such attempts at branding the TEA party movement are stupid. For one, one of the things that facists want is total control of lives. The TEA movement seeks to return rights to the states and to the people, and to throw off the taxation shackles that inhibit growth and stifle freedom. Also, if Obama's orginization was so hot on helping blacks, then why the sam hill did he move to eliminate the school voucher program that was working so well in....DC? And if Huey Long is the best quote they can come up with, then the author of this drivel is really reaching, and in an unhealthy way.
Tea PARTY movement.
Isolate the target and demonize it. (or something like that)
The Title says “Tea Bag” movement. Are we to expect when we throw this shit overboard it’s in “bags”?
What a little whack job screed.
The “Tea Party” folks are for individual rights.
The writer is for the power of the state.
Wow, that’s right up there with Naomi Wolf’s shrieking article a few years back about how to turn a country into a dictatorship or some rot. My favorite “point” was that all those Florida Republicans wearing short-sleeve shirts and ties were reminiscent of the Brownshirts.
Where *do* these people come from? And how soon can we send them back?
These morons just love to toss around the word “fascism” yet the vast majority of them have no clue what the word really means.
but will anyone be left to listen to them....has they become more and more extreme they will lose more and more readers/listeners etc. they have tried to make up for this by becoming louder but it is a losing game in the end.
Huey Long was right, when he said America is more likely to turn facist. As proof just look at the current Government with facists in Congress and the White House.
It is a strange brand of Americanism known as Hope and Change. The Tea Parties are the reaction to the facism and lies at all levels of government.
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