{"id":509,"date":"2012-02-02T12:56:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T10:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/?p=509"},"modified":"2012-02-09T17:57:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T15:57:59","slug":"last-time-we-heard-language-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Last time we heard language like this…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…the discussion about it violated Godwin’s law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But you know what? \u00a0This isn’t an analogy. \u00a0This is a direct comparison.<\/p>\n

Let’s look at a quote here:<\/p>\n

“If you can think of [these people], think of them as termites eating away at the foundations of your home each and every day. \u00a0See, that’s what they do every day. See, we can’t afford to let them keep doing that. We can’t just go home and forget about and pick up the torch three days from now or four days from now. We have to be involved each and every day if we’re going to stop all that.”<\/p>\n

Now look at this quote:<\/p>\n

“[these people] in every century, in every people, was and remained a foreign body, a destroyer of real and ideal values, a denier of any upward progress, a plague for body and soul. [They] sneak in through deceit and treachery, trickery and slyness, murder and assault, understanding how to establish [themselves].”<\/p>\n

The first is Michael Reagan – the adopted son of the treasonous, terrorist-appeasing, Iranian arms-for-hostages trader Ronald Reagan (yes, that Reagan, the 40th President of the USA) – discussing “Liberals” on Jan 31 of 2012.<\/p>\n

The second is Hermann Esser describing the Jewish Problem in an essay written in 1939<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n(With thanks to Crooks and Liars<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Enough is enough. \u00a0Where are the sane conservatives? \u00a0Hmm? \u00a0These assholes have an entire television network<\/em>, numerous radio networks across the USA, and spew their bile 24\/7 on the national airwaves. \u00a0My tax money goes to pay for the infrastructure that these people use to call for my extermination<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m pretty accustomed to that. \u00a0Being an atheist, I’ve gotten used to being reviled and \u00a0told I should be exterminated already. \u00a0Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, Rick Warren, even Pat Robertson had a pretty vile attitude towards atheists. \u00a0That didn’t bother me so much, because those guys were all dumb shits and too busy self-aggrandizing and playing with their fairy in the sky to actually get anything done. \u00a0Their followers were low-IQ simpletons who weren’t capable of organizing themselves into a cohesive force.<\/p>\n

But this is different. \u00a0This is something else.<\/p>\n

This time it’s because I am a liberal. \u00a0No bones about it. \u00a0I choose the side that morality points to and that math dictates. \u00a0This generally results in a liberal frame of mind – do good by people and do good by as many as you can. \u00a0And this time, these folks are organized. \u00a0They have national media, they have hatred, and they have a “cause.”<\/p>\n

And these people are building up to an extermination campaign<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Think that’s too strong? \u00a0Oh yeah, could never happen, pooh pooh, too many safeguards against that, you say.<\/p>\n

It’s been one year since a crazy conservative walked into a political rally and shot 19 people, killing six<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s been three months since four men were arrested prior to their bombing a set of Federal buildings inspired by the book Absolved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Six months since Anders Brevik killed 85 children<\/a> after penning a 1,500 page Christian Conservative manifesto.<\/p>\n

It’s been a year since a right-wing terrorist in Spokane attempted to bomb a MLK-day parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s been eighteen months since Byron Williams had a long shootout in Oakland after opening fire on a policeman while en route to perform a massacre at the Tides Foundation<\/a>, whom he considered a bed of liberals.<\/p>\n

It’s been nineteen months since Mark Krause was arrested for an attempt to bomb a Democratic senate primary runoff polling station<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has been twenty since the father-son “sovereign citizen” team of Jerry and Joe Kane killed two police officers and wounded two others before being killed<\/a>\u00a0themselves.<\/p>\n

It’s been about four years since David Adkisson first caught my attention on this topic with his attempted massacre of a Unitarian congregation in 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are dozens of other cases that have occurred in just the last few years.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 More if you go back further. \u00a0Do I need to remind anyone that Timothy McVeigh was a right-wing militiaman?<\/p>\n

It’s well past time we stopped pretending “conservatism” is some sort of healthy ideology. \u00a0It is a terrorist<\/em>\u00a0ideology. \u00a0It is a fascist<\/em>\u00a0ideology. \u00a0It is an eliminationist<\/em>\u00a0ideology. \u00a0It is not driven by fact, but by rage, anger, and hatred.<\/p>\n

And it must be stopped.<\/p>\n

Funny thing is that it wasn’t always this way. \u00a0I have considered myself a conservative in the past, because I fell for the bullshit line that conservatism was about common sense. \u00a0It isn’t. \u00a0In fact, I remember to this day the exact moment when I realized that conservatism was off its nut. \u00a0I was listening to Rush Limbaugh in my car in 1996 on the way to work, and I heard the five words that made me realize just how totally vacuous the movement was:<\/p>\n

“Scientists, what do they know?”<\/p>\n

Since then, things have grown worse – much, much worse. \u00a0Murderously<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0worse. \u00a0What began as simplistic stupidity has metastasized into an industry of hate, a machine of propaganda, and a merchant of terror.<\/p>\n

Do you, dear reader, consider yourself a conservative? \u00a0Do you watch Fox News (the company that stands proud of its right to lie to you in the guise of news<\/a>)? \u00a0Do you regularly read Drudge?<\/p>\n

Why do you? \u00a0What do you gain? \u00a0Are you truly that full of hate?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And more importantly, why should anyone consider you a safe member of society?<\/p>\n

Anyone with a shred of human decency would be speaking out against this stuff. \u00a0Would be divorcing themselves from these hateful organizations. \u00a0Would heap shame and scorn on anyone remaining a follower of that disgusting ideology.<\/p>\n

Would be phoning up every radio and TV station in reach to point out that their hatred won’t be tolerated any longer. \u00a0Would be begging their elected representatives to reinstate the Fairness in Broadcasting regulations.<\/p>\n

The right wing has become a monster, and unless we stand up and start making public examples out of its followers, they will only become more deluded, violent, and ultimately destructive of us and our country.<\/p>\n

You can start. \u00a0Today.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/p>\n

The Southern Poverty Law Center has a good article on the topic as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another good run-down on the topic<\/a>. (h\/t Buck)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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