Random thought..is this similar to the anti-communist memes of the 50's?

[w8liftinglady]

Marxist,socialist association with the Democratic Party.
Singling out groups...gays,ethnicities
financial segregation

are we seeing a reverse in history?

Just my observation after beating my head against the wall.I need a life outside of politics.

[Drale]

1. Yes its is

because the only people who are republican are the super intelligent who want to control and the super unintelligent who never learned from our history, and if left to run rampant in the form of the tea baggers it will only get worst.

[rucky]

2. It's straight out of every fascist's playbook since the beginning of time.

The homo sapiens singled out the cro magnums.
The pharisees singles out the philistines.

you get the picture

[rfranklin]

3. It is the same old technique of playing on people's fears...

and insecurities. But the socialist (communist) bugaboo has little traction with younger people. Similarly, most younger people are not so homophobic as they were fifty years ago when Liberace was considered a heartthrob by horny housewives.

[Riftaxe]

4. Why do you think the "Communism" not have quite as much traction

with the younger set?

Perhaps ignorance of the largest 20th century politicides committed in the name of that "ideology" (Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, Stalin, etc)?

or is it perhaps, with the notable exception of Kim Jong Il's, most of those governments have long since evolved from the original Marxist origins into somewhat more enlightened ones.

and Liberace was a heartthrob for many more then just housewives! :D

[rfranklin]

7. I think that they are less tuned in to the threat of nuclear attack...

by the godless commies.

[Riftaxe]

10. Excellent point, Cold War tensions

from the US and Soviet testing of nuclear weapons most certainly was a significant contributor to the attitudes of some of us not so young types. :P

[HopeHoops]

5. There's a difference?

[Hannah Bell]

6. yes. anything which scapegoats the more or less powerless is.

"more or less powerless" varies in time & space.

in one situation, e.g. catholics = rulers/persecutors, in another, scapegoats/persecuted.

etc.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Yes. John Birch lives.

The themes are frighteningly similar - extreme xenophobia with an ultra-nationalist tinge.

Nothing much has changed.

[RealisticDem44]

9. Indeed, it is very similar

nt

[HughBeaumont]

11. The 14 Points in all their ugly splendor . . .

http://ellensplace.net/fascism.html

3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause

The most significant common thread among these regimes was the use of scapegoating as a means to divert the people’s attention from other problems, to shift blame for failures, and to channel frustration in controlled directions. The methods of choice—relentless propaganda and disinformation—were usually effective. Often the regimes would incite “spontaneous” acts against the target scapegoats, usually communists, socialists, liberals, Jews, ethnic and racial minorities, traditional national enemies, members of other religions, secularists, homosexuals, and “terrorists.” Active opponents of these regimes were inevitably labeled as terrorists and dealt with accordingly.

The worst part about it is, their voters don't even get for a second what their party and their benefactors are pulling on them.

[tinrobot]

12. Yes, and one result in the 60's was the Great Society.

...along with a lot of very loud hippies.

[lonestarnot]

13. Same place, same thing.

[w8liftinglady]

14. so..to carry this to the next level...what happened to those who didn't believe the "meme"?

Jailed..silenced..or other?

[JackRiddler]

15. It is, in fact, a direct evolution of the same thing.