Saturday, March 22, 2014

Conservatives Can't Stop Making Nazi References


http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/03/21/conservatives-cant-stop-making-nazi-references/198558

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Clinging to persecution fantasies that seem to grow darker each year, conservative voices continue to hype doomsday scenarios in which President Obama is scheming to confiscate firearms, socialize American medicine, silence his critics through brute political force, and wage violent class warfare.
Allegedly under siege at every turn as their freedoms are stripped away, conservatives embrace an imagined status as perennial victims.
The result? Wallowing in self-pity and convinced of the dark forces moving against them, conservatives launch attack after attack, insisting they're fighting forces at home akin to Hitler's Nazi storm troops.
They complain louder and louder that America has become like Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler when 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
Nazi analogies aren't new and conservatives didn't trademark them. But the cries have become far more frequent during Obama's sixth year in office.
Four years ago, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes accused the management of National Public Radio of having "a kind of Nazi attitude" for firing commentator Juan Williams. Former Fox host Glenn Beck frequently immersed himself in offensive Hitler rhetoric during Obama's first years in office,
while the then-burgeoning Tea Party movement did the same. And so did Rush Limbaugh, who obsessed over Obama-Nazi comparisons in 2009: "Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate."
we've listened to the right wing Nazi chants for years now they are the only ones who ever bring it to the table, you don't hear any kind of Nazi rhetoric from Progressives regardless to republican insinuation, we know they are liars would be kings of deception except they only have been able to sell that to their base.
first we were all Communist after awhile they figured it didn't carry much weight anymore.  in crawls Allen West self hating wannabe and now we have 80 communist from our side
now they are attacking their own in defense of their communist rant because they did what was right for the country and the people.  seems they really don't know what Communism really is.
In 2009, the Anti-Defamation League, led by Holocaust survivor Abe Foxman, documented the Tea Party's growing reliance on "Nazi comparisons" as a way to express its anti-Obama rage. Yet today the Nazi claims arrive effortlessly and on a depressingly regular basis as conservatives line up to compare this president, his allies, and this country to one of the worst chapters in civilized history.
The thoughtless rhetoric not only captures how detached Obama's critics have become from reality (not to mention the blanket insensitivity involved), but it also reveals the bizarre view conservatives have of their alleged political strife.
Fox News contributor Dr.  Ben Carson recently claimed America is now "very much like Nazi Germany" in that it has a government "using its tools to intimidate the population." Carson defended the insulting comparison by suggesting American conservatives are being targeted and intimidated by the government: "Maybe if I don't say anything, I won't be audited, people won't call me a name."
AuditedName-calling? Historical note: Those were certainly among the least painful afflictions Jewssuffered during the Nazi reign of terror. "I know you're not supposed to say 'Nazi Germany,'" said Carson. "But I don't care about political correctness."
you have never seen Progressives waving swastika flags and Hitler mustaches, talk of taking back a country they share like Hitler and Poland, Putin and Crimea after Communism was proven to stale by the tea party new guard they became immersed in all things Nazi,
these are the 50's products waking from their sleeper mode to infiltrate the gov't and set about destroying it and democracy, does that sound more like what you see and hear going on now more so than Communist in gov't?