Fear and Favor

[furrbear]

Fear and Favor:

“A note to Tea Party activists: This is not the movie you think it is. You probably imagine that you’re starring in ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ but you’re actually just extras in a remake of ‘Citizen Kane.’”

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[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

This is one of the most offensive things I’ve seen written in the political sphere in recent memory. The Birth of a Nation was about the founding of the Ku Klux Klan, for God’s sake — a vicious and virulent domestic terror organization that was a scourge on America for over a hundred years, and still exists (albeit in a reduced form) today.

“A note to Tea Party activists: This is not what you think it is. You probably imagine that you’re playing an important role in forming a domestic terror outfit whose whole raison d’etre is to murder blacks, Jews and Catholics, drive them out of your towns, keep them marginalized and inferior to your own caste… but you’re actually just extras in ‘Citizen Kane.’”

My God, my God, my God. Has political discourse in this country fallen so far that we can’t tell the difference anymore between masked murderers and people who disagree on the direction our country is headed?

I’m not a Tea Partier. I don’t have Tea Party sympathies. I work with a couple. I disagree with them pretty intensely on a whole lot of theological and political matters, but you know what? One also loaned me a tenner the other day so that I could buy lunch when I left my wallet at home.

In the end, we’re all Americans. Rhetoric like Krugman’s has no place in the public sphere.