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The Transformation of the American Conservative Movement into Fascism (MEGABARF!!)
VeteransToday ^ | 8-10-2010 | Max Blumenthal

Posted on 08/27/2010 12:46:16 PM PDT by tcrlaf

I am not sure when I first detected the noxious fumes that would envelop the conservative movement in the Obama era.

It might have been early on, in April 2009, when I visited a series of gun shows in rural California and Nevada.

Perusing tables piled high with high-caliber semi-automatic weapons and chatting with anyone in my vicinity, I heard urgent warnings of mass roundups, concentration camps, and a socialist government in Washington. “These people that are purchasing these guns are people that are worried about what’s going on in this country,” a gun dealer told me outside a show in Reno. “Good luck Obama,” a young gun enthusiast remarked to me. “We outnumber him 100 to 1.” At this time, the Tea Party movement had not even registered on the national media’s radar.

In September 2009, I led a panel discussion about this book inside an auditorium filled with nearly 100 students and faculty at the University of California-Riverside. Beside me sat Jonathan Walton, an African-American professor of religious studies and prolific writer, and Mark Takano, an erudite, openly gay former Democratic congressional candidate and local community college trustee.

In the middle of our discussion, a dozen College Republicans stormed the front of the stage with signs denouncing me as a “left-wing hack” while a hysterical young man leaped from the crowd, blowing kisses mockingly at Takano while heckling Walton as a “racist.” Afterward, university police officers insisted on escorting me to my ride after the right-wing heckler attempted to follow me as he shouted threats.

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My encounter with this aggressive right-wing cadre seemed a strange, isolated event. But the hostility turned out to be symptomatic of the intensifying campaign to delegitimize President Obama and his allies in Congress. The Right’s days of rage were only beginning.

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To: ClearCase_guy

“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” — Benito Mussolini

Che Guevara said something very similar, IIRC, “Within the Revolution, everything. Outside the Revolution, nothing.”


21 posted on 08/27/2010 1:01:51 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: tcrlaf

Talk about being unhinged...
Either that or a routine case of a thief screaming “catch the thief” as loud as he can.


22 posted on 08/27/2010 1:02:19 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: tcrlaf

Max Blumenthal? C’mon, rolling out Sidney Blumenthal’s kid as a serious person is ridiculous. Sid Blumenthal was Slick Willie’s attack dog, his pile of dung son is a chip off the old turd.


23 posted on 08/27/2010 1:02:22 PM PDT by MovementConservative (Go Mariners! (Oh well, there's always 2012).)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Property may be owned by individuals and businesses, but may only be used within parameters established by the state.”

IOW, the current US of A.


24 posted on 08/27/2010 1:03:33 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: tcrlaf; All

Just a Note, this haters book is 119, 147th out of 660,00 on Amazon, and is available, NEW, from 19 cents!!!!

Who actually BOUGHT copies of this?


25 posted on 08/27/2010 1:04:45 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
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To: tcrlaf
This loon didn't just complain about having a stage stormed by protesters with signs, did he? I'm going to have to goggle the internets to find out what Maxie had to say when Tancredo was overwhelmed on campus, or Coulter, or Palin, or any conservative.
26 posted on 08/27/2010 1:06:19 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: tcrlaf
My encounter with this aggressive right-wing cadre seemed a strange, isolated event.

Really? The left does this kind of thing all the time. The lefties shout down and thrown food at conservative speakers so often at universities that it's barely newsworthy when it happens.

27 posted on 08/27/2010 1:07:44 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: tcrlaf
I am not sure when I first detected the noxious fumes that would envelop the conservative movement in the Obama era.

Behold, a Nazi smells the stink of his own antisemitism, and thinks it's coming from the Jews.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

28 posted on 08/27/2010 1:08:26 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: tcrlaf

The popular Alinsky tactic: Accuse your enemy of doing (and being) what you in fact are.


29 posted on 08/27/2010 1:11:21 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: tcrlaf
I've never heard of “Veterans Today” but this is one veteran that says it's out and out BS. What the hell kind of crap brain veteran must they appeal too?

Where I go to get back the last few minutes that I wasted reading that drek?

30 posted on 08/27/2010 1:14:30 PM PDT by Brucifer (Proud member of the Double Secret Reloading Underground.)
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To: tcrlaf

No one does fascism better than your side does, Max (son of “Grassy Knoll”).


31 posted on 08/27/2010 1:15:14 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Goldberg's book ("Liberal Fascism") is worth reading. I think he makes a solid case that Progressivism IS Fascism. It really kicked off with Woodrow Wilson -- Mussolini saw what Wilson was doing and he approved of it. FDR served under Wilson, saw what he was doing, and when he became president, he pushed even harder in that direction.

The USA is a major fascist country, and has been since the beginning of the 20th century. And then we got Obama.

It hurts to say it. But Liberalism is Fascism. The New Deal, the Great Society, all of it. Good Guys like Coolidge and Reagan have definitely been the exceptions.

32 posted on 08/27/2010 1:19:05 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: tcrlaf
A rather disturbing read, all in all. Those who live in the reality-based world will have difficulty recognizing the phantasmagorical alternative universe in which Mr. Blumenthal apparently chooses to dwell. It is a clinic on the psychology of projection. Rarely does one see so clearly how a person filled with hatred and rage can almost perfectly transfer those feelings to the subjects of his anger. Example: when he accuses people on the Right of mindlessly hating "the other", he instead perfectly describes the essential character of Progressive liberalism, which directs intense hatred at one's own (country, religion) in favor of any other.
33 posted on 08/27/2010 1:22:59 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Brucifer

Veterans Today appears to be a left leaning group. Their web site doesn’t look like a typical veteran oriented site.


34 posted on 08/27/2010 1:25:55 PM PDT by jimbobfoster
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To: Nachum
The Right’s days of rage were only beginning.

Just another Jewish American Democrat (JAD). Self righteous, self-loathing, loud, insulting, and wrong.

And maybe a little jealous. SDS's "Days of Rage" were very poorly attended, and they got their heads busted. The Weathermen...mostly self righteous, self-loathing Jews, loud, insulting, and wrong...went underground and resorted to violence. The Tea Parties are well-attended and rational. The only "rage" to be found is expressed coherently and politely. And they pick up after themselves.

35 posted on 08/27/2010 1:25:57 PM PDT by gundog (Why is it that useful idiots remain idiots long after they've exhausted their usefulness?)
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To: tcrlaf

If Slapsie Maxie ever got a whiff of REAL fascism, he’d wet his pants and run screaming home to Daddy.


36 posted on 08/27/2010 1:28:41 PM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (And that is all the people need to know!)
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To: tcrlaf

37 posted on 08/27/2010 1:33:00 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: tcrlaf

Nahh. Its the American LIBERAL movement which has transformed itself into Fascism.

The old time liberals from the 1950s and 1960s didn’t trust government - they never would have supported giving the government the additional powers they have sought and received - like extending eminent domain to the right to take private property for re-sale to higher tax paying bsinesses or private parties, or reducing health benefits to certain classes of citizens, or aiding and abetting an international cult which supports Sharia Law.

Its the LIBERALS who have evolved into Fascist Statists, not the Conservatives.


38 posted on 08/27/2010 1:38:36 PM PDT by ZULU (God, guts and guns made America great,)
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To: tcrlaf

Kid, we’ll show you “fascism”


39 posted on 08/27/2010 1:44:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You got a mirror he can look into or somethin’?


40 posted on 08/27/2010 1:45:31 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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