ONE LUMP OR TWO? Fake fascism & false outrage

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ONE LUMP OR TWO? Fake fascism & false outrage
by Allan Uthman | May 4, 2009



I’m actually starting to feel sorry for conservatives. They’ve never made much sense, but the trouncing they took in November appears to have driven them completely insane.

I can’t think of a better word to describe people who meet up to protest taxes when taxes have not been raised, or who actually accuse the president who ended torture of being a fascist.

It seems fairly obvious, but if taxes and deficits were the issue, these same people would have been out in the streets for years now. The real issues, the true motives behind these paltry protests, are fairly simple: They lost, and there’s a black guy with a foreign-sounding name in the White House. Does anyone think a bunch of old white people would be out in the street shouting crazy shit about fascism if Hillary Clinton was president? Not a chance. They’d be mad, but not insane.

What evidence is there that Obama’s a fascist? So far, it seems that his insistence on the resignation of GM CEO Rick Wagoner is pretty much it. There is carping that he is asserting “unconstrained control” of the economy, but this is hogwash. He is, of course, totally constrained by congress; they just want to give him what he wants at the moment, much like the Delay congress did for Bush. Primarily, it seems, it is Obama’s very charisma that right-wingers see as a sign of fascism. That is, of course, totally ridiculous. A charismatic leader is not a requirement of fascism, only that a leader be in total control and willing to use force to suppress his political opposition, neither condition being met by Obama. But to the Right, the very fact of Obama’s popularity is proof enough that he is a black Hitler.

Just look at the signs in those ubiquitous pictures of the ludicrously over-hyped “tea parties” on tax day. “Obama’s plan: White slavery.” “Barack Hussein Obama: The new face of Hitler.” And my personal favorite, “The American taxpayers are the Jews for Obama’s ovens.”

It would be bad enough if this were the worst of it, but there is much more. We’ve all heard the crazed, baseless conspiracy theories about Obama’s birth certificate, the flatly idiotic notions of his plans to impose Islamic law, the accusations of “radical Marxism.” But the hits just keep on coming. Recently, Alan Keyes, fast becoming the most ridiculous man in America, asserted that Obama would stage terrorist acts as a pretext for declaring martial law and cancelling future elections.

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1. I don't think you can merely assert

that Allan Keyes is the most ridiculous man in America without some kind of proof. The competition for that title is intense. Oklahoma alone has two senators in the running, and Texas and Louisiana have one each. Hell, half the Texas congressional delegation is in the hunt. And what about Newt? And Michael Steele. Then there's the Great Zepelin himself, Rushbo. And my personal favorite, Glen Beck. We're gonna need a poll to resolve this.

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2. Can't we have a steel cage match?

All contestants are miked. the one on the top of the pile will be mixed loudest (unless there are some really good torturous groans from underneath) And the ridiculousest, reaching the top of the ladder will get them the exclusive mike as long as their feet hold the top step.

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3. Sounds like a natural

for a GOP fundraiser.