Who would have thought that ANY American poliitico would know who Guy Fawkes was, much less use him as a metaphor for the Tea Party movement?
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/04/23/republican-governors-pay-homage-to-guy-fawkes/
Maybe 300 years from now, a campaign ad will feature images of Timothy McVeigh as a folk hero...
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
The Blog Lives!
http://www.slate.com/id/2251669/
This piece from Ron Rosenbaum of Slate blasts the Tea Party movement (not just the so-called "fringe" that has been marginalized to give legitimacy to the main body) for their deliberate historical distortions. Rosenbaum takes the Tea Party's use of words like "socialist," "fascist," and "tyranny" to task, evoking the rise of the Nazis and Khrushchev's destalinization policies as moments where political language likewise underwent crisis and transformation.
Rosenbuam points out that the Tea Partier's fallacously use the name "National Socialist German Workers Party" as evidence that fascism and socialism are identical. Left unstated is the irony that the Nazis appropriated the term "Socialist" in a cynical attempt to rewrite the past and secure their own political power.
This piece from Ron Rosenbaum of Slate blasts the Tea Party movement (not just the so-called "fringe" that has been marginalized to give legitimacy to the main body) for their deliberate historical distortions. Rosenbaum takes the Tea Party's use of words like "socialist," "fascist," and "tyranny" to task, evoking the rise of the Nazis and Khrushchev's destalinization policies as moments where political language likewise underwent crisis and transformation.
Rosenbuam points out that the Tea Partier's fallacously use the name "National Socialist German Workers Party" as evidence that fascism and socialism are identical. Left unstated is the irony that the Nazis appropriated the term "Socialist" in a cynical attempt to rewrite the past and secure their own political power.
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