There was another group that divided its population into 'real people' and 'not real'

[Taverner]

Just like what's-her-pfuck and Palin with their praises of Small Town America.

This group divided the population into the 'Old People' who were old in the sense that they came from the country, and 'New People' who used to live in the cities, but had been moved into the country by this administration.

The group was ruthless, and despised education of any kind. If you had glasses, they shot you. Spoke another language, you were shot. Of a different race? Dead.

The name of that group? The Khmer Rouge. Led by Pol Pot.

The Republicans learned a lot of stuff from the Maoists. Neoconism is based on Trotskyism and Maoism for example.

Just a reminder.

[EFerrari]

1. Real, patriotic, hard working, small town = code for white.

Palin is the most disgusting politician ever. She's worse than Wallace.

[RainDog]

4. exactly. Palin is a pig. n/t

[EFerrari]

5. I want to ream Pol Pot Patty. If anyone finds a site where

they have transcripts of her spew, please let me know.

[YOY]

2. But Bush policy is solid Machiavellian

He takes cues directly from "The Prince." Find the quotables...they fit his admin to a "T".

[Taverner]

3. So does any poltician who wins 2 elections with a 20% approval rating

[Nickster]

10. Nah, they like to think they're clever Machiavellians, but they actually didn't listen to his advice

at all, if they had, they'd have done much better.

[YOY]

12. Dunno about that:

"Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed. "
-check


"From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. "
-double...no. Triple checked.


"The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws."
-in their little minds check.


"A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art."
-Sounds like a solid economic plan: Check.

[Taverner]

14. They may not be clever, but whatever they did worked

They squatted in that house for 8 years

[Nickster]

15. Agreed. I just don't think that they are as smart as they think they are.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. I refuse to be a "real" anything.

Real American
Real Patriot
Real Worker
Real Socialist
Real Liberal
Real Conservative
Real White
Real Man
Real Husband
Real Anarchist
Real Marxist
Real Democrat
Real Gentleman
Real Pacifist

Etc, etc, etc.

And, the same goes for "Good".

[Birthday]

7. Jean-Francois Steiner,

in his brilliant and heartbreaking book, Treblinka, describes the constructing of "us" vs. "them". When I read this, I was struck by the deliberateness and "brilliance" of the way the Nazis created these two groups, and then kept doing it. I have thought that every student should have to read the early chapters of that book so that, as a society, we can identify it when it is happening to us, and we can also be prepared to stop ourselves, when we find ourselves doing the same thing.


:scared:

[TalkingDog]

8. So did the guys who put pink triangles on gays,

stars of david on jews
black triangles for antisocials,
green triangles for criminals,
red triangles for political prisoners


Maybe Palin's symbology would include:
green circles for environmentalist
white squares for computer nerds and tech wonks
brown ovals for artists (painter's palettes, don'tcha know?)


Add your own. It does nothing to make you less pissed off, but at least you have something to laugh at.

[hfojvt]

9. Didn't they do that in Watership Down?

Divide the rabbits between the real ones and the velveteen ones? Or am I thinking of Fantasia, the real world vs. the world of human fantasy? Atreyu and the Moonchild are not real.

Sheesh do we make such a big deal out of typical rah-rah stuff of 'my audience is great', 'my supporters are great'. Hopefully after Obama wins we can round up all those hateful fascists and send them to camps or something, eh?

[Democrats_win]

11. You DO know that her RNC quote came from fascist writer Westbrook Pegler

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/03/american-fascist-wes.html

“Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin quoted an unidentified “writer” who extolled the virtues of small-town America: “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” (9/3/08) The unidentified writer was Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969), the ultraconservative newspaper columnist whose widely syndicated columns (at its peak, 200 newspapers and 12 million readers) targeted the New Deal establishment, labor leaders, intellectuals, homosexuals, Jews, and poets.”

[EFerrari]

13. I'm so glad you posted that because I couldn't find it and need it.

:yourock:

[BeHereNow]

16. I say we round up all the wolves we can find, load 'em into coppers and arm them.

Then let nature and instant karma take its course.

That fucking bitch is the worst hate monger to ever blight our nation.
SHAME on the fucking people who support her.

I say we let the wolves decide her fate.

BHN