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herdingcats commented on the blog post Come Saturday Morning: ALEC — The Koch-Funded Group That’s Stealing Your Rights And Your Birthright
I find the reflexive “It’s not Egypt.” mantra very curious. By economical standards it isn’t (yet, though the Republicans are very hard at work to make it that way), and nobody made a claim to that effect. But when protesters in Madison are holding up signs that read “Walk like an Egyptian!” that means they are indeed inspired by what they have seen in the Middle East, that they recognized what happened there, and that they feel inspired by it. Maybe that’s the point we should be making because it could reveal that mockery as the whistling in the dark that it is.
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herdingcats commented on the diary post McCain’s German Spokesman: “It’s Also Certain That Mrs. Palin Has Summoned The Demons” by Phoenix Woman.
It seems, Hektor6766 was referring to the time before the Nazis usurped power when talking about intimidation and bullying by displaying weapons, not about what happened after they gained absolute control over the entire government.
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herdingcats commented on the diary post McCain’s German Spokesman: “It’s Also Certain That Mrs. Palin Has Summoned The Demons” by Phoenix Woman.
Bitteschön. :)
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herdingcats commented on the diary post McCain’s German Spokesman: “It’s Also Certain That Mrs. Palin Has Summoned The Demons” by Phoenix Woman.
It is also worth mentioning that Germans, due to historic experience and the catastrophe of the Third Reich of course, have a clear idea and very well know the concept of what is now so vigorously discussed in the US. Namely, whether there is a relationship between heated and vitriolic rhetoric and violence. Heck, they [...]
