With the recent two incidents involving right wing Christian terrorists in this country*, and the total suppression, as usual, of their political affiliations by the mainstream press, I thought it would be beneficial to take a few minutes to consider briefly the history of these two groups, the Sovereign Citizen movement and the Christian Identity "religion." This is not a complete story- the Christian Identity movement is an outgrowth of the British Israelite movement, which since the 1870's was based on the absurd claim that Northern Europeans were the real descendants of the Jews in the bible. Various explanations have been given about where today's Jews came from, some going so far as to claim that Jews (and black people too, of course) are actually not human beings at all, but spawns of an affair which Satan supposedly had with Eve, which is why God ejected Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Well, enough of this idiocy, on with the story. First, with Chri...
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The hillbillies are alive with the sound of music.
Is there an effort afoot to discredit The Quitter even before she launches her presidential bid?
Apparently her newest "book" is as awful as her reality teevee show.
And more Republicans are feeling bolder about dissing the ex-beauty queen.
I believe you have not read this blog for all that long. I have, I think I may fairly say, considerable knowledge about Germany and Italy in the period 1900-1945, and over the last couple of years I have laid out exactly why I believe that the American right, with its short and very shallow memory of history, is absolutely recreating, as far as it is capable, the economic conditions which made the rise of Nazism possible. Furthermore, though the rank and file teabaggers are utterly incapable of facing this fact, the leaders of the right are working as fast as they can to complete the missing details, by deliberately triggering the sort of massive economic collapse that coerced the German people to give up their freedom.
I have dealt with right wingers for decades, and I know that you will never face this malignant truth, but it is true nevertheless.
Bush and Cheney WERE involved in an attempt- remember the "unitary executive?" -remember torture? -remember detentions without trial? -remember armed aggressions against innocent countries? -to institute a dictatorship in this country, and thus when we look to past dictators to understand their behavior, we are engaging in historical analysis, not a well financed smear campaign.