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lunadelcorvoThat was the sound of my head exploding. "Hitler gave good speeches, too?!?" Obama with a Hitler 'stache!?!? WTF? Are you fucking serious?!?
This health care nonsense has gotten to insane extremes. As the clip below notes, associating our president and the congress with Hitler and the Nazi regime goes beyond the pale. It is dangerous, as it is a blatant and clarion clear invitation to violence, just as the rhetoric connecting abortion providers to nazis provided, to those extreme enough to heed it, a sanction to violence, even murder. But it is also a travesty to the memory of those who truly were the victims of the Nazis, both civilian and military.
Rachel Maddow: Maddow: 'Nazism is not a metaphor'
(Click HERE if the embed fails.)
Rachel Maddow: 'Time to bring facts to the health care debate'
(Click HERE if the embed fails.)
I spent nearly an hour on the phone with a relative who called to 'warn' me of the 'true' content of the health care reform plan. She believes the euthanasia scare. She believes that senior citizens will be forced to die. WTF? How insane has this country gone when this kind of outrageous crap is bought, wholesale, swallowed hook, line and sinker? When lunatic fringe elements and panicked big business put out ideas that don't even *sound* reasonable, and people believe them? When they rise up in the thousands to fight against the phantoms of the paranoid?
HAS THIS ENTIRE FUCKING NATION LOST THE ABILITY TO THINK??????????
This health care nonsense has gotten to insane extremes. As the clip below notes, associating our president and the congress with Hitler and the Nazi regime goes beyond the pale. It is dangerous, as it is a blatant and clarion clear invitation to violence, just as the rhetoric connecting abortion providers to nazis provided, to those extreme enough to heed it, a sanction to violence, even murder. But it is also a travesty to the memory of those who truly were the victims of the Nazis, both civilian and military.
Rachel Maddow: Maddow: 'Nazism is not a metaphor'
(Click HERE if the embed fails.)
Rachel Maddow: 'Time to bring facts to the health care debate'
(Click HERE if the embed fails.)
I spent nearly an hour on the phone with a relative who called to 'warn' me of the 'true' content of the health care reform plan. She believes the euthanasia scare. She believes that senior citizens will be forced to die. WTF? How insane has this country gone when this kind of outrageous crap is bought, wholesale, swallowed hook, line and sinker? When lunatic fringe elements and panicked big business put out ideas that don't even *sound* reasonable, and people believe them? When they rise up in the thousands to fight against the phantoms of the paranoid?
HAS THIS ENTIRE FUCKING NATION LOST THE ABILITY TO THINK??????????
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Date: August 10th, 2009 04:23 am (UTC)I have always thought that was a large part of the success of Christianity; that it could do the same thing - inspire a deep fear, AND provide the remedy for it. Perhaps that's why so much of the fear-mongering seems to go hand in hand with the religious right....
...then again, we have always been at war with Eurasia.... ;)