OBAMA IS HITLER, BUT WHO ISN’T?
Sep. 25th, 2009 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogAfter 25+ years of arguing politics, you notice some trends that stick.
Like name-calling.
Sometime since the early-90s – even before Rush Limbaugh coined the term “femi-Nazis” – it became common to decry yr political opponents as Nazis, or compare candidates to Hitler. It was chiefly a left-wing thing (since the right usally slagged off the left as Commies and Gawdamn Socialists), but Republicans adopted it around the time George Bush Senior was comparing Saddam Hussein to Hitler. Which wasn’t exactly accurate (and kind of embarrassing considering all the chemical weapons we sold him), but it was more accurate than the current trend of comparing Obama to Hitler.
Or so I thought.
I’ve long since learned to ignore accusations of fascism, Socialism, Communism, Nazism and other isms because frankly, they’re so overused and applied so inappropriately that they’ve lost their value as pejoratives and have been transformed into buzzwords intended to make someone sound scarier than they are. Which is a shame, because sometimes it IS a valid description (neo-Nazis and Kim Jong-Il, for example).
On the other hand, it depends on yr criteria.
In which case, Obama and Hitler really are two evil peas in a pod. And this Tumblog has been collecting evidence.
Guess I owe Glenn Beck an apology.
Then again, by this criteria, Glenn Beck is also Hitler. As well as most of America. So the hell with it.
Mein kampf,
This is dF
Like name-calling.
Sometime since the early-90s – even before Rush Limbaugh coined the term “femi-Nazis” – it became common to decry yr political opponents as Nazis, or compare candidates to Hitler. It was chiefly a left-wing thing (since the right usally slagged off the left as Commies and Gawdamn Socialists), but Republicans adopted it around the time George Bush Senior was comparing Saddam Hussein to Hitler. Which wasn’t exactly accurate (and kind of embarrassing considering all the chemical weapons we sold him), but it was more accurate than the current trend of comparing Obama to Hitler.
Or so I thought.
I’ve long since learned to ignore accusations of fascism, Socialism, Communism, Nazism and other isms because frankly, they’re so overused and applied so inappropriately that they’ve lost their value as pejoratives and have been transformed into buzzwords intended to make someone sound scarier than they are. Which is a shame, because sometimes it IS a valid description (neo-Nazis and Kim Jong-Il, for example).
On the other hand, it depends on yr criteria.
In which case, Obama and Hitler really are two evil peas in a pod. And this Tumblog has been collecting evidence.
Guess I owe Glenn Beck an apology.
Then again, by this criteria, Glenn Beck is also Hitler. As well as most of America. So the hell with it.
Mein kampf,
This is dF
