http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6468610Oh my.
The sparkling husband primitive.
One wonders how his wife's doing with the chemistry set, trying to concoct an undetectable poison.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 11:10 PM
Original message
"Let them go on. They'll soon be seen as crazy. There will be a backlash"
This made up quote is emblematic of the kinds of things the more sanguine lefties like to sniff with respect to the army of crazies that has descended upon the land like a plague of locusts.
So .... when will that happen this time?
All I see is the volume going up.
The teabaggers numbered in the scores. The birthers in the hundreds. The town hallers are much more numerous.
DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 11:13 PM
Response to Original message
1. That's what the Jews thought about the Nazis in Germany
"Hitler's a clown", "He won't last a year", "Don't worry the German economy needs our businesses to keep running", on an on. Self-delusion or denial of reality?
Individualist (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 11:17 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. Good point, and clearly a denial of reality
The town hall meetings turned out to be a platform for right wingers to spew their lies far more often than an opportunity to inform the public about health care.
tblue37 (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 11:49 PM
Response to Reply #1
10. Yep. And what about the Swiftboaters? Their claims were so patently absurd, and the historical record so clear, that no one could possibly believe them
Except that then, as now, they had the full power of the MSM to help them sell their propaganda and, equally important, to actively suppress the truth.
Hmmm. I thought the claims of the Swiftboaters were proven true.
Never mind.
troubledamerican (758 posts) Sat Sep-05-09 12:45 AM
Response to Reply #1
13. I can't believe I'm reading these words on DU. Really?
This is something I would write, then get attacked for by idiots on DU who tell me "Hitler was never a figure of ridicule like Palin or Bush" and then get my post removed by the ever-intelligent moderators on the basis of "anti-Semitism".
I predict your post will be removed in 6 hours, and I will be finally banned for pointing out the obvious.
(1) Hitler and the Nazis were figures of ridicule in the "sophisticated" and "civilized" democracy of the Weimar Republic. Fact. This is NOT anti-Semitism.
(2) This is even alluded to in "Schindler's List" where the old matriarch, on a train-ride to Auschwitz, quashes Death Camp rumors by saying "They need us for our labor. They won't kill us." This is NOT anti-Semitism to point this out.
(3) "Mob Rule" was a grave concern of FDR and New Dealers during the 1930s and 1940s. This concern shows up repeatedly in Frank Capra movies of the era, notably
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ox-Bow_Incident ... This is NOT anti-Semitism.
Now feel free to ban me, dumb**** moderators.
coyotespaw (919 posts) Sat Sep-05-09 06:24 AM
Response to Reply #13
17. Five and a half hours later...yet, both you and this post are both here. 'Twould seem that your ability to predict the future is on par with the writers of The Jetsons. The "dumb**** moderators" (whom I believe you owe an apology to) haven't banned you, and I still don't have a flying car that folds into a briefcase. You stay classy, troubledamerican.
MrModerate (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-05-09 06:24 AM
Response to Reply #13
18. What's wrong with this phrase: "Dumb**** moderators?"
Your argument up to that point was just fine. I suspect (I haven't seen any of your previous posts) that on those other occasions you might have had something useful to say and then blew it by an unecessarily provocative remark.
Just chill and I'm sure you'll be heard.
WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 11:16 PM
Response to Original message
2. Pretty soon, partially insane will be mainstream and completely sane will be considered extreme.
Nope, nope, nope, not at all.
The primitives of Skins's island will never be mainstream.
Democrats_win (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 11:26 PM
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5. Common sense would say there is nothing wrong with the President speaking to school kids.
Remember when "conservatives" talked about common sense? When will America wake up and realize that all of these people are complete crackpots?
CakeGrrl (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 11:33 PM
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6. CNN.com's headline right now about the speech to children:
"Obama's speech for kids angers some parents"
Framed as if there's a legitimate issue with a speech that hasn't even been given.
Stupid and crazy are not ridiculed in public; the MSM puts a gentle spin on them and gives them airtime.
Yeah, the mainsteam media puts a gentle spin on Democrat corruption and stupidity.
Shoelace (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 11:34 PM
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7. conservatives don't like them, think they are hurting them all or so I just heard from David Broder tonight on the Lehrer news hour. The last straw is that kerflufle over Obama's school talk. I say let them show the country just how they really are - backlash guaranteed from their own quarters!
One suspects the sparkling husband primitive's been having some problems with the mechanisms of the commode down in the basement:
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 11:42 PM
Response to Reply #7
8. Boortz made an unequivocal statement against them, too. So did Scarborough.
I don't know about other right wing noozers/yakkers, but I'll bet there are more.
And yet, their leader, The Great Gasbag, keeps the crazies all fired up.
The whole bunch of them are like turds in a flushing toilet ....... that clogs and overflows.
opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 11:45 PM
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9. The GOPer Ankle Biters come in hoards using brwn shrt techniques of keeping the discussions focused on wedge issues...the intent is to DIVIDE using emotional Fear Cards...the easily fooled...into GOP ATTACK DOGS
Crow Din Din coming soon.....
jberryhill (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-05-09 12:50 AM
Response to Reply #9
14. The brown shirts won
Must be a reference to November 2008.
opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-05-09 02:08 AM
Response to Reply #14
15. not in the long run....they lost the war
Must be another reference to November 2008.
Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-04-09 11:50 PM
Response to Original message
11. I think that's what they said in Germany during the 1920's.
jillan (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-05-09 12:44 AM
Response to Original message
12. And this was said about the swiftboat liars in 2004.
Hmmm. I wasn't aware it was shown the Swiftboaters had lied.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-05-09 06:10 AM
Response to Reply #12
16. Lots of examples our having done this
It is a well known pattern for our side. We're always too smart, too sure, to chickenshit to fight back.
Fight 'em with the facts, we say.
Well .... the facts don't even enter into the equation!
MrModerate (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-05-09 06:36 AM
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19. I'm one of those who thinks that this round of crazy will cost the wingnuts big time . . .
While still having visions of brownshirts in my head and a very creepy feeling about the whole thing. Color me ambivalent.
What I see (and admittedly I'm watching from overseas, so my point of view may be distorted) is that while the rhetoric gears up, and more of the closet cuckoos come forth, the wedge that's being driven is between the sane and the insane. The number of those identifying themselves as Republican continues to go down, with most of the leakage into self-described "independent" points of view.
Independents are a complicated lot, but can probably be described by two categories: 1) those who know what they believe and think that neither party has it quite right, and 2)those who are confused by it all and think neither party has it right. Are either of these populations moving right as a result of recent eructations like teabagging and the war on education? I don't think so.
While mob rule is not to be sniffed at, I do believe that the mobs would be quite small compared to the rest of us, and that the first time one of these nuts who've been bringing guns to presidential events actualy pulls his gun and hurts someone, the whole hater movement will take one right on the chin.
I don't think you can take over a major state the way Germany was in the 1920s and 30s. Too much information, too much mobility, too much to lose to the fuhrerprinzip. Not to say these dumb clucks and mean ****s don't give me the willies.
Yeah, the primitives give us all the willies.
NashVegas (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-05-09 08:03 AM
Response to Reply #19
20. Come SIt Here By Me
We've had at least two counties embarrass themselves by ordering their school districts ixnay participation. I think it's quite possible Dems may gain seats on state and local levels as a result. (Though I'm not necessarily looking forward to that, because of farm issues.)
Oh, I dunno.
