Christanic domestic terrorist Republicans

This is what Christanity is all about, this is Republicanism today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09krugman.html

Published: November 9, 2009

Last Thursday there was a rally outside the U.S. Capitol to protest pending health care legislation, featuring the kinds of things weve grown accustomed to, including large signs showing piles of bodies at Dachau with the caption National Socialist Healthcare. It was grotesque — and it was also ominous. For what we may be seeing is America starting to be Californiafied.

The key thing to understand about that rally is that it wasnt a fringe event. It was sponsored by the House Republican leadership — in fact, it was officially billed as a G.O.P. press conference. Senior lawmakers were in attendance, and apparently had no problem with the tone of the proceedings.

True, Eric Cantor, the second-ranking House Republican, offered some mild criticism after the fact. But the operative word is mild. The signs were inappropriate, said his spokesman, and the use of Hitler comparisons by such people as Rush Limbaugh, said Mr. Cantor, conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.

What all this shows is that the G.O.P. has been taken over by the people it used to exploit.

The state of mind visible at recent right-wing demonstrations is nothing new. Back in 1964 the historian Richard Hofstadter published an essay titled, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, which reads as if it were based on todays headlines: Americans on the far right, he wrote, feel that America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion. Sound familiar?

But while the paranoid style isnt new, its role within the G.O.P. is.

When Hofstadter wrote, the right wing felt dispossessed because it was rejected by both major parties. That changed with the rise of Ronald Reagan: Republican politicians began to win elections in part by catering to the passions of the angry right.

Until recently, however, that catering mostly took the form of empty symbolism. Once elections were won, the issues that fired up the base almost always took a back seat to the economic concerns of the elite. Thus in 2004 George W. Bush ran on antiterrorism and values, only to announce, as soon as the election was behind him, that his first priority was changing Social Security.

But something snapped last year. Conservatives had long believed that history was on their side, so the G.O.P. establishment could, in effect, urge hard-right activists to wait just a little longer: once the party consolidated its hold on power, theyd get what they wanted. After the Democratic sweep, however, extremists could no longer be fobbed off with promises of future glory.

Furthermore, the loss of both Congress and the White House left a power vacuum in a party accustomed to top-down management. At this point Newt Gingrich is what passes for a sober, reasonable elder statesman of the G.O.P. And he has no authority: Republican voters ignored his call to support a relatively moderate, electable candidate in New Yorks special Congressional election.

Real power in the party rests, instead, with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (who at this point is more a media figure than a conventional politician). Because these people arent interested in actually governing, they feed the bases frenzy instead of trying to curb or channel it. So all the old restraints are gone.

In the short run, this may help Democrats, as it did in that New York race. But maybe not: elections arent necessarily won by the candidate with the most rational argument. Theyre often determined, instead, by events and economic conditions.

In fact, the party of Limbaugh and Beck could well make major gains in the midterm elections. The Obama administrations job-creation efforts have fallen short, so that unemployment is likely to stay disastrously high through next year and beyond. The banker-friendly bailout of Wall Street has angered voters, and might even let Republicans claim the mantle of economic populism. Conservatives may not have better ideas, but voters might support them out of sheer frustration.

And if Tea Party Republicans do win big next year, what has already happened in California could happen at the national level. In California, the G.O.P. has essentially shrunk down to a rump party with no interest in actually governing — but that rump remains big enough to prevent anyone else from dealing with the states fiscal crisis. If this happens to America as a whole, as it all too easily could, the country could become effectively ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.

The point is that the takeover of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here — and its very bad for America.

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[Desertphile]

The obese Nazi said Americans fighting Nazi Germans during WW2 were committing "racial suicide." FUNNY! Well, funny in a sick, freaky, fucked-up way.

[RevKentHovind]

Insane god damned cultists. I just updated the video's description with an op-ed piece that covers these insane Republinazi piles of shit and how their leaders in Washington egg on their NRA gunloon domestic terrorist colleagues out in the streets.

[Masterzec]

I just randomly thought about this... if Nazi's are anti jew does that mean that they are pro muslim? hmm..

[RevKentHovind]

Naw, these neo-Nazis hate *everything*, even America and what America stands for.

They share a lot of the same ideologies as the people they hate, amusingly enough. It makes these Christians indistinguishable from their Islamic colleagues.

[allieron]

The Southern Poverty Law Center are wonderful people and a credit to America and Huamnity.

What a shame that "freedom of speech" has been so perverted that America is the only country in the civilized world where there is an official nazi party.

Those Americans who rammed their bayonets through the nazi Beast in 1944 must be turning in their graves over these scum who claim to be "white, Christian Americans".

[phenixwryter]

Good grief.

I remember one time, when my kids were little, we saw the KKK out trying to collect donations from the cars caught at a red light. They had on their robes, with guns strapped to belts round their waists. No one that I saw would even roll their windows down.

I ignored the guy when he came up to my car, but that jackass was scary to my kids, so I explained what the KKK was all about. They said, in their youthful wisdom, that those people are really mean.

They were right.

[saburius]

Every single person living on this planet today can be traced back to Africa. DNA science rocks! Ideologies are always the result of ignorance.

[greytornado]

I was born and raised in the South. In close to 50 years, I have never seen anyone wearing a sheet or a member of the KKK. This is a bunch of crap. I'm friends with a black state trooper who spent time within the KKK and said that it's all about money. The KKK is so irrelevant today and so are these skin heads. You are talking about an insignificant group of morons. These people are not Christians. There are a lot of people who say they are Christians but few that are real followers of Christ.

[silverton7777]

She probably gets money from Obama for her fat ass

[Amashkitotamoes]

'One race' anything is STUPID! 

[marvin24723]

hay Hitler

[arklat]

This guy is certifiable. He claims to want to glorify the USA's European history. the last time I checked, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Andorra were all in Western Europe. Yet, they hate all people with an 'olive' skin tone. Why don't they just say what they really mean? they only want Scandinavians here in the US! Screw the Vikings! They were rapists and murdering pirates. Their idea of industry was to make swords to kill people with. And nazis are a slap in the face of those who died in WW2.

[dewfish]

this video describes your average youtube commenter.

[JACEH123]

If I were in charge I would have these people executed. I don't care if it is "wrong" to think that, it would be for the good of everyone.

[Requiemxtoxinnocence]

national socialist or nazi it doesn't matter because they are all the same crazy assholes.