The breathtaking hypocrisy of the Tea Party (The Threatened [White] Party - people on gov't assistance protesting against the gov't), is just so astounding that the only way I can wrap my mind around it is to believe that it just has to be a phase. Given the average age I don't think I'm too far off. We'll know more in 20 years. Actually we'll know more in a shorter period of time I think.
Rolling Stone has done a couple of articles about them. The latest one being here.
TPer's are so very Us and Them. Even to the point of Good gov't assistance for US, and BAD gov't assistance for all those lazy non-white people who are just sucking the Good people dry. Sigh.
The only odd thing is the people manipulating the TPer's are younger (Paul, Palin and O'Donnell come to mind) and know what buttons to push. Fear sells especially in the Red state areas. And utter stupidity doesn't seem to slow them down, however you know that the people pushing them into the spot light are much smarter. It's enough to make you paranoid, but I believe in our internet age where information travels very quickly and it's much harder to control it - which is why you see a lot of conservatives arguing about facts and creating weird fantasies like Obamacare Death Panels (TM) that they think if they keep repeating enough times it will make it true. Ironically these are tactics that Hitler and Stalin used.
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Are you familiar with Godwin's Law? :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Although you're definitely off the hook because you're talking about propaganda in a completely relevant manner. It's just intriguing how often Hitler does come up.
Hitler comes up on a very regular basis, but yes I'm not being random, I was referring to the "Big Lie" tactic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie
Stalin is credited with using the tactic of accusing opponents of being unpatriotic.
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