Posted on 09/22/2014 7:57:17 PM PDT by Nachum
The totalitarian impulse is all too familiar: since I represent Progress (and, of course, everyone who acts in the political realm fervently believes that he represents Progress) those who stand in my way are retrograde–evil, really–forces, that belong in the dustbin of history. Therefore, I might have to lock them up or kill them to ensure that Progress prevails.
Until recently, the totalitarian impulse has been blessedly absent from American politics. Now, however, the American left has caught the totalitarian bug that infected Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, and so many others. A case in point: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the drug-addled son of the former Attorney General. Kennedy thinks it is a shame that he isn’t able to jail or execute the Koch brothers and other conservatives, like–for example–me:
Environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lamented that there were no current laws on the books to punish global warming skeptics. “I wish there were a law you could punish them with. I don’t think there is a law that you can punish those politicians under,” Kennedy told Climate Depot in a one-on-one interview during the People’s Climate March. …
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
They can punish people, legally, for politically incorrect speech on race and sex. They tried to bait environalmentalism with “racist pollution” whereby whitey was directing pollution at minority populations. It didn’t gain traction.
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History Lesson: Under Fascist Bush, Democrats Feared Tyranny
Once upon a time, a group of people known as the “Democrats” expressed great fear of tyranny by government. This was a time long, long ago, when a man from a place called Texas, representing a people known as the Republicans, occupied the White House. Leaders of the Democrats feared tyranny by the Republicans and called the man from Texas racist, oppressive and tyrannical.
To refresh your recollection, we offer a few examples from the distant past:
Billionaire Democratic contributor George Soros. He said the George W. Bush White House displayed the “supremacist ideology of Nazi Germany” and that Bush’s administration used rhetoric that echoed his childhood in occupied Hungary. “When I hear Bush say, ‘You’re either with us or against us,’” Soros said, “it reminds me of the Germans.” Soros later said: “The Bush administration and the Nazi and communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. ... Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and communist propaganda machines.”
Former Vice President Al Gore. He said: “(George W. Bush’s) executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. ... And every day, they unleash squadrons of digital brown shirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the President.”
Former two-time Democratic presidential candidate and civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson. After Congress passed new anti-terrorism laws following 9/11, he said: “We are in danger. The extreme right wing has seized the government. Tonight, (John) Ashcroft and the CIA and the FBI and Homeland Security and the IRS can work together. So look out, because without a definition of who is a terrorist, anyone can be. ... Martin Luther King could have been. ... The right-wing media, the FBI — they are targeting our leadership.”
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee. He said: “What we are dealing with right now in this country is whether we are having a kind of bloodless, silent coup or not. ... (President Bush) is trying to bring to himself all the power to become an emperor — to create Empire America.” An Iraq War opponent, McDermott said, “The President of the United States will lie to the American people in order to get us into this war.”
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who sits on four Senate committees, including Armed Services and Commerce. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, she said, “George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black.”
Entertainer and liberal activist Harry Belafonte. When asked whether the number and prominence of blacks in the Bush administration suggested a lack of racism on Bush’s part, Belafonte said, “Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich.”
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, former presidential candidate. He characterized the contest between Democrats and Republicans as “a struggle of good and evil. And we’re the good.” Shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks, Dean actually mused about an “interesting theory” he’d heard — that G.W. Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11 yet took no action to stop it!
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In 2003, Albright said she thought Bush had already captured Osama bin Laden — but that Bush was not going to reveal this until just before the 2004 election to get maximum political benefit! She later claimed she was joking, but Morton Kondracke, who overheard the comment, said, “She was not smiling when she said this,” and that others in the room heard it, too, “and they didn’t think it was a joke.”
Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., sitting member of all six subcommittees of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He compared the newly conservative-controlled Republican House of Representatives to “the Duma and the Reichstag” — referring to the legislature set up by Czar Nicholas II of Russia and the parliament of the German Weimar Republic that brought Hitler to power.
An anti-gun New York newspaper published a report and interactive map with the names and addresses of gun permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties. Shortly after this, an anti-gun columnist for a prominent New Jersey paper said: “(I got) a nasty note from one of my most progressive friends who says ... ‘You’re a fool because when the right wing takes over the government, we’re gonna need guns. ... And then there won’t be guns to fight them back.”
“Words matter,” Obama once said.
During the Bush years, Democrats feared, or at least claimed to fear, the possibility of tyranny — precisely the purpose of the Second Amendment. If these Democrats were even remotely sincere, why wouldn’t any self-respecting patriot want the right to keep and bear arms to protect against thugs like that? Indeed, why not mandatory gun ownership — at least when Republicans control the White House?
You warned us. We believe you. The threat of tyranny is ever-present.
January 31, 2013 | Larry Elder
There is a kind of carelessness and demoralization that was echoed by the Weimar Republic.
It’s a spiritual open door for the first beast that can waltz in.
That would be a short, ugly fight. I have no doubt that we are better armed and know how to use our weapons a whole lot better.
You’d like to think you could stay united.
Some of the worse Freeper fights should disabuse of that notion.
Well, my brother and I could always stop fighting long
enough to throw down with the punks at the far end of the
block.
They’re short on climate facts and long on anti capitalism.
I expect nothing less of fascists.
There oughta be a law...
Sounds like this person didn't get the memo that criminals AKA liberals will be allowed to keep their guns, provided they wreck havoc upon the conservative population. A liberal could go hunting for unarmed conservatives right now, and absolutely nothing would stop them other than an altruistic armed conservative who is willing to risk being savaged by the media. (Quite frankly, any conservative who doesn't own a gun at this point has only themselves to blame if their life, liberty, and property are lessened or destroyed.)
There are *very* sick "people".
Every time I hear about a liberal meeting an ill fate, I rejoice. The only downside to that is how the politicians and the media will use it to justify even more Stalinist tactics.
You know, I had forgotten how bad the anti-Bush hysteria was. Thanks for the post.
In my younger, more naive days I really wondered why The Gulag Archipelago wasn’t required reading in American universities.
Sounds like the "Conservative" plan against cannabis users! It's not fascism when we do it though.
Scratch a “progressive” - find a fascist underneath.
Every time.
That’s a certainty. They are a nasty bunch. I heard a Progressive say he’d laugh when all conservatives get put in front of walls and shot. He was very serious.
I’ve said it before and I say it again. The same murderous blood that ran through Pol pot, Stalin, Castro, and Mao runs through Obama’s veins. If it weren’t for our guns I have no doubt in my mind that Obama would have his opponents marched off to gulags. His political mentor has called for the mass execution of political opponents.
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