"Indiana Green" who once proposed "Revolutionary Justice" (executions) for conservatives if the Left ever takes over.There are lots of people on the Left who think this way.
One of the things that most people don't get is the innate fascism that is on the rise amongst the left activists in the Democratic Party. People like our friend, "Indiana Green", are far more numerous than is generally believed by those in the media. Remember, as with the "Days of Rage" generation, today's left activists who are in thier twenties will be tomorrow's left liberal gun-grabbing congressmen. One of them might become President someday, should the American voters take leave of their senses (as happened in 1992 with the election of that power-hungry, narcissistic couple).
At bottom, all too many of the folks on Democratic Underground see the State as their salvation with no understanding of the terrible consequences of overweening State power. They conveniently forget that it was during the terrible Twentieth Century that the dangers of State Power were displayed for all to see:
Armenia, 1915
The Forced Collectivization of the Ukraine and the Great Terror, the Soviet Union, 1926-1938
National Socialist Germany, 1933-1945
The Great Leap Forward, China, 1956-1958
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, China, 1966-1972
The "Angka", Cambodia, 1975-1979
The rule of the Pathet Lao, Laos, 1975-present day
The Iraqi dictatorship, Iraq, 1978-present day
Each of these examples include states that practiced mass murder on "class" or "racial" enemies. Nearly 100 million people perished as a result of State action in the Twentieth Century. This does not include acts of war, such as the German invasion of Russia in 1941. This number only includes the actions of states against their own peoples.
It is for the above reason that the fascist vermin who populate the Democratic Underground are to be watched. Their liberties should not be threatened. That is not our way. We are Conservatives. We believe in the supremacy of the Constitution and recognize that when one's speech is protected, then everyone's speech is protected. But over at Democratic Underground, they have a far different interpretation of what "freedom" and "justice" means....
At bottom, that is all that the Left has to offer as its animating ideology: "Strength Through Joy". It is for the Conservatives to guard the Constitution against this fascism. The Framers understood the threat to liberty from potential tyrants such as our friends over at DU.
For they not only made sure that the 1st Amendment was first among equals, they gave us the 2nd Amendment so that we might safeguard our liberties against the likes of "Indiana Green".
Hold fast to your M-1 Garand rifles, gentlemen. Your liberties may depend on their safekeeping.
Be Seeing You,
Chris