“It’s like the boiling frog,” Snowden tells me. “You get exposed to a little bit of evil, a little bit of rule-breaking, a little bit of dishonesty, a little bit of deceptiveness, a little bit of disservice to the public interest, and you can brush it off, you can come to justify it. But if you do that, it creates a slippery slope that just increases over time, and by the time you’ve been in 15 years, 20 years, 25 years, you’ve seen it all and it doesn’t shock you. And so you see it as normal. And that’s the problem,
Irrelevant. The demonization of the Tea Party by both the current regime AND the GOP leadership was a calculated tactic done for the purpose of conditioning the country to accept what is intended to be done to us.
How often and by how many means has the meme that the Tea Party is a threat to the security of the nation and people's rights has been spewed by the current government and it's media?
History teaches that whenever a government or ruling class of a society demonize a specific group - that group will eventually be eliminated by methods political, judicial and physical. There is no exception in history to this.
It doesn't matter that those groups are peaceful and pose no physical threat to society - a people conditioned to believe such groups are a threat will believe whatever the State tells them as the justification for whatever actions the state takes against those groups targeted.
We are already sliding down that slippery slope at speeds that truly frighten.