Wow. Just wow.
For those who wanted to see examples of demagoguery...
Tea Party Nation Leader says #OccupyWallSt. organizers and protesters are Communists and Nazis
In the sixth of some very short paragraphs, he claims that communists and nazis are socialists "hate freedom and liberty and both want to see freedom and liberty replaced with tyranny."
Just. Wow.
Here we have what is probably the best example of a demagogue that I have EVER seen in my lifetime.
Using emotionally charged rhetoric, provably FALSE rhetoric at that, to "Rabble Rouse"
Inflaming indignation in those that either can't, or won't be bothered to fact-check his references to communism, Nazi-ism, or socialism and the basic tenets of each.
My grandpappy always taught me to "know my enemy", which is the ONLY reason I took the time to study each of these political ideologies.
You can't avoid something when you don't even know what it looks like...
You can't fight something when your own personal ignorance allows it to slip past you unrecognized.
That we live in such a world as this. Where people like this Judson Phillips can count on the support of the uninformed and uneducated. Undeniably taking advantage of their fears and biases.
And how brazen of Judson Phillips to be using the proven tactics of Nazi-ism and fascism in order to get that support...
And, what makes me actually physically ill is the sure knowledge that he will get away with it.
I am shaken to my very core.
For maybe the third or fourth time in my entire life, I find myself hoping there is a God, so that this Judson Phillips will be assured of his due, his eternal punishment.
I firmly believe that while #OWS is important, and needed, this Judson Phillips has shown me that the problems of this world are much more basic, and primal than just some economic woes.
If we need to rise up, then we need to rise up against things like this, as well.
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