It;s for dudes who are still stupid enough to think that war is cool. So yeah, major maturity issues.
Actually I disagree. The tea party does this to Obama and others all the time. I think you have to fight slander with slander.
And I disagree with you, in that Iott is not being slandered at all. There's no fabrication. Just watch that video of him slobberjockeying (thanks, "Granville"!) the freaking SS! Dude admires the most atrocious of the Nazis. It's pretty hard to watch.
If this Nazi-lover is so popular with Tea Partiers, shouldn't they also love Obama, who they've been comparing to Hitler since he was inaugurated?
If you aren't able to make the distinction between the average German infantryman and the Waffen-SS, you obviously know nothing about WWII history. It's also possible that he's a neo maxi zoom dweebie.
New Yorker ran an article on Glenn Beck and the roots of the stuff I didn't understand. I guess it's good to know where they came from. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_wilentz
Thanks for noting that article. It's a truly interesting piece. So, 1% of people: "Interesting, thank you." Tea party: "TL;DR. Beck is on TV now. LOL, see ya!"
I knew I had heard this Bircher reference before and here is the NPR story from an interview with the author... "I think what's happening is the Republican Party is willing to chase after whatever it can to get the party back — to get power back," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "This is what's happening in the Republican Party, so instead of drawing lines, they're jumping over fences to look like they're in the good graces of these Tea Party types." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130534982
But the point is, if things ever come to a crunch in the United States, this massive part of the population (religious fundamentalists) - I think it's something like a third of the adult population now - could be the basis for some kind of fascist movement, readily. For example, if the country sinks deeply into recession, a depoliticized population could very easily be mobilized into thinking it's somebody else's fault: "Why are our lives collapsing? There have to be bad guys out there doing something for things to be going so badly" - and the bad guys can be Jews, or homosexuals, or blacks, or Communists, whatever you pick. If you can whip people into irrational frenzies like that, they can be extremely dangerous: that's what 1930s Fascism came from, and something like that could easily happen here. ---Noam Chomsky, 1989
this was nothing new when he said he said it, it was nothing new in 1900 and its definitely not new now. upheaval in any society always results in the same, a reversion back to "fundamentals". on top of the recession people actually have a black president with a funny to name to blame
I don't dispute that at all. I never claimed it was novel, I just thought it was remarkably well said and particularly acute.
