Nazis, Teahadists and the attempt to turn Christianity into a right wing political movement.

[eridani]

"Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years." — Adolf Hitler, quoted in: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1

Although the Tea Party movement tries to present a veneer of conservative neo-liberalism, in the background we have everything from paranoid communist conspiracies to fire-and-brimstone end-times preaching, deriding Obama as the anti-Christ. Funny, that with all their talk of conspiracies, there seems to be little mention from Tea Partiers about 9/11 as an inside job, which would probably shake up the US government more than any of the New-World-Order-type communist conspiracies, but I digress. As is apparent from Jonathan Kay's Newsweek article - which is titled "Black Helicopters over Nashville" - there seems to be a tendency among some in the press to regard the Tea Party with ridicule instead of treating their brand of political pathology as a sober threat to the nation (and world). How little we learn from history, no?

[auburngrad82]

1. A lot of people don't know that the Nazis were a right-wing Christian organization

Or they choose to ignore it.