By Dan Hagen
The first thing a fascist has to have is a scapegoat to present as the source of all evil, so that he can distract you from the evil that he is quietly hatching himself.
Today's specialty flavors are “uppity woman,” “them gays, “union member” and “brown guy with funny name,” (like, say, “Trayvon Martin”).
It’s apparently open season on the latter. But of course they’d enjoy shooting the others, too.
Think not? Remember, Gov. Rick Perry says he wants to lynch the Fed chairman, and Sen. Tom Coburn says he wants to shoot his fellow senators.
Just out of curiosity, is there ANY problem that Republicans think can't be solved by murder?
From Nixon’s shame-faced, furtive political burglary to Bush’s eager, lip-smacking use of kidnapping and torture, the right wingers’ response when they’re caught red-handed in acts of evil is always, “Oh, both sides do it, so it doesn’t matter.”
That’s quite a strange position for self-advertised moral absolutists to take, made doubly strange by the fact that both sides obviously DO NOT DO IT.
Both sides DO NOT ask who is going to shoot the president of the United States. Both sides DO NOT show up at public meetings about health care armed with guns and carrying signs about refreshing the tree of liberty with somebody else’s blood. Both sides DO NOT murder doctors at abortion clinics. Both sides DO NOT go to Unitarian churches to hunt some political opponents to slaughter. Both sides DO NOT have pundits who broadcast their hatred of political opponents by laughing at the idea of their assassination. Both sides DO NOT make lame, tortured excuses and fake evidence in order to justify shooting down unarmed kids in the street.
The right wing side alone does those things, and they might want to ask themselves why they’re the ones huddled in that smelly corner with all those murderous lunatics.
They might, and they should, but they won’t.
My son and I were talking about all of this this evening. The GOP has spent the last few decades creating this deluded class, this monster in order to get elected, and are now faced with that monster. They've created an electorate that embraces lies, racism and ignorance.
ReplyDeleteA couple of nights ago, while I was winding down my shift, I had Charlie Rose on. He was interviewing James Baker, the GOP former Treasury Secretary. Baker was lamenting the fact that politics had become so divided and divisive and the middle ground had disappeared. I nearly choked. The guy who served under the president who used WIllie Horton and racial fears to get elected said this. Look under "disengenous" under the dictionary-- you'll find James Baker's picture.
The problem is not "divisiveness." The problem is that the Republican Party has become fascist. Literally.
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