Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Burn baby burn

Teddy Roosevelt was a Socialist; so was Adam Smith, Adolph Hitler and FDR. Anyone in fact who thinks there ought to be a government is a Socialist unless there's " a war on." At that point everything changes and anyone who thinks there's too much government, too intrusive and abusive in it's powers becomes the Socialist villain. That's the simple version. Of course people who wonder why, when half the e-mail screeds one gets from Republican sources begin with a picture of the World Trade Center in flames and exhortations never to forget, we can also call an official day of Remembrance and Service "Socialist." Is it the service that sours the remembrance? Perhaps a national day of insulting France would have been less Socialist. Perhaps burning the UN would have been more "conservative."

“The plan is to turn a ‘day of fear’ that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left,”
writes Matthew Vadum in The Spectator. What could be more Socialist that interfering with the fear level Republicans promote in concert with international terrorists to keep authoritarianism alive in America.
"Nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.”
Or at least the meaning that can be interpreted to demand bigger, more militaristic government and an attack on Constitutional Government. That's "desecration" howls Vadum. I'm sure that all the police, fire, public safety, paramedics and others who died on that day were Socialists as well - and desecrators as well. And what about all the Socialists who volunteered afterwards? You can see the danger!

So when you see the inevitable burning towers picture, remember to preserve the fear, promote the panic and for heaven's sake don't do anything to get in the way of ever increasing government power and defense contractor profit. That would be nothing but Nihilism and Socialism (if your doublethink capacity is great enough to tie those two together.)

While your doublethink module is engaged, please remember that it wasn't Socialism to support a national day of service when George Bush promoted the idea or when it got Bipartisan support this Spring. It's Socialism because Barack Obama is President.

Damn, these socialist/nihilist Liberals are insidious! Promoting positive outcomes and reducing fear is the first step down the slippery slope toward Socialism and if that is difficult for you to understand, Raw Story has all the reasons all the Republican opinion shouters give us to support "conservative" fear mongering, xenophobia, divisiveness, totalitarianism, Chauvinism and military aggression instead of that goddamn e pluribus unum constructivism those nihilist homosexual, far-left Socialists, want to sell us.

5 comments:

  1. When one lives on the bottom of the sea, as your faithful and intrepid Octopus does, a hurricane overhead passes relatively unnoticed. Perhaps a scuttled ship sinking into sand is all an Octopus knows of the turbulence above.

    It is difficult to understand the wingnut response to an approaching storm. A wingnut is not a cephalopod and, yet, they act as if they lived on the bottom of the sea.

    There is an approaching Category 5 hurricane. It is comprised of two ongoing wars, the worst economic meltdown in 80 years, a healthcare system crisis, an energy shortage unresolved since 1973, thieves and liars everywhere ... and a total lack of consensus.

    Like most creatures that swim, float, fly, or walk upright, one would think the wingnuttery would have an instinct for self-preservation and an incentive to have an honest and civil discussion … to talk of problem solving. Nooooo!

    Oooo, those winds are howling; the surf is rising. Pardon the mixed metaphors, but one wonders whether wingnuts are human beings or lemmings.

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  2. "one wonders whether wingnuts are human beings or lemmings."

    Either group would be offended at the suggestion.

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  3. Obama is conspiring to strip 9/11 of all meaning?

    Too late, Barack. George Bush, by his endless exploitation of 9/11 for personal political advantage, stripped it of any real significance years ago.

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  4. That's the truth. Whenever I see pictures of smoke and flames, I know someone is trying to screw me.

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