Like this guy, who compares the Town Hall Blitzers to Anne Frank, being ruthlessly hunted by the Obama Administration.
Perspective is necessary. It can also put your f'ckin eyes out. Health care reform is so exactly like the Holocaust.
[UPDATE 1:10 PM] Josh Marshall, he absolutely gets it.
We should also keep in mind that the birther-mania, as comical as it is on one level, is all part of the same fabric with the Hitler and Holocaust comparisons, an aggressive process of denigration and dehumanization, dressed up around claims about paperwork and places of birth, but all escalating and churning the belief of a minority of Americans that President Obama is not a legitimate president but rather a usurper.Millions of people have been made to believe by the Republicans and other groups that back them that Barack Obama is not the legitimate President of the United States of America, and as such his entire agenda is illegitimate.It's always important for us to remember what the last eight years have again taught us, which is that America has a very strong civic fabric, one that can withstand, absorb and conquer all manner of ugly behavior. It can take in stride a lot of angry rhetoric, townhall fisticuffs and more.
But as this escalates we should continually be stepping back and thinking retrospectively from the vantage point of the future about where this all seems to be heading.
Stop and ask yourself, "What is the logical endpoint of that belief?" If you honestly believe that he is not legally the President, what is the end game there?
I've talked about the 5 D's before:
- Declare the criteria you don't like about Group X that makes them different.
- Divide the people into Us Versus Them.
- Demonize the other group as the Enemy.
- Dehumanize them by classifying their actions as something horrific.
- Destroy them with the people cheering you on.
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