Has anyone bothered to stop and count the number of times that senior elected and political leaders on the left accuse Republicans and the Bush Administration of being "fascists" or "Nazis?"
Just recently Julian Bond, head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People speaking to a group in Fayetteville, North Carolina said: "The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side."
And just a few weeks prior, Representative Jerrold Nadler (Defeaticrat-NY) accused Bush of usurping power in a way that even Hitler and the Nazis never contemplated: " "if he were in Germany in 1933, he would not have required the Enabling Act to pass the Reichstag to claim the power."
Nearly a year ago, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) the only former member of the Ku Klux Klan elected as both Exalted Cyclops of the KKK and Senate Majority Leader of Democrats in the U.S. Senate said very similar words, on the Senate floor.
And let's not forget that Dick Durbin (Defeaticrat-IL) saw the legal, regulated actions of our troops as reminiscent of NAZIS and Soviets in their Gulags.
And now, Coleen Rowley, Democrat candidate for congress in Minnesota, placed an image on her web page where the military uniform of her opponent John Kline, who served 25 years in the Marine Corps, had the military uniform in the photo replaced with a Nazi uniform and the Congressman made to resemble Hogan's hero character Colonel Klink.
Dem's Nazi Rhetoric Poisoning Well of Political Discourse. A Danger to Representative Government.
We could go on and on with examples here of Senior and elected Democrats using such rhetoric. But let's just leave it with Howard Dean who last year described how he "hates Republicans" and later "This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're (Democrats) the good."
The affect this directed and organized campaign has on the lesser minds of those drunk with the ideology of Bush hate is clear and dangerous. Just look at the number of hate-filled references to Republicans as "Nazis" or "fascists" that we read in comments on blogs like Mike's America on a regular basis.
And so poisoned by this hate, it's a small leap from such unregulated raw emotion to equally unbalanced action. During the 2004 multiple examples of this unbalanced behavior were recorded.
Destruction of private property of those displaying Bush/Cheney signs at their homes, or as bumper stickers on their cars was common. Organized union efforts to invade GOP campaign headquarters around the country and shut them down occurred. And don't forget the recent conviction of five men in Wisconsin for slashing tires of Republican election vehicles in 2004. Some of the five were related to prominent Wisconsin Democrats and all five worked for the Kerry Edwards campaign in Wisconsin.
Perhaps most troubling: the various reports of gunshots fired into GOP headquarters.
And we haven't even addressed the problem of vote fraud well documented in states like Wisconsin, Washington State and Pennsylvania.
No comparable and verifiable claims of GOP inspired or organized conduct have been reported.
Hitler and Nazis: How a vocal and violent minority creates a dictatorship.
Read the classic witness to history: "The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich" by William Shirer for a lesson regarding the danger of an unbalanced minority demanding appeasement. A fine synopsis is here.
The Nazis never won an election in Germany and it is unlikely that they ever would. Yet, because they were successful in creating chaos and violence to further their political demands, Hitler was appointed Chancellor by President Hindenburg in a vain effort to appease his followers.
The lesson for our times? It would be a mistake in the extreme to appease those who continue to use extra-legal means to advance their political agenda. The unrelenting organized and systemic campaign of hate against the legitimate government of the United States endangers not only our nation's success in a time of war, but our representative form of government.
Seems those who talk loudest about Nazis have more in common with them than those they accuse. It would be a tragedy if they were to succeed.
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