Sullivan links to a Politics Daily story describing yesterday’s teabaggery:
The angry folks at the protest — which attracted several thousand conservatives — held up signs with messages of hate: “Get the Red Out of the White House,” “Waterboard Congress,” “Ken-ya Trust Obama?” One called the president a “Traitor to the U.S. Constitution.” Another sign showed pictures of dead bodies at the Dachau concentration camp and compared health care reform to the Holocaust. A different placard depicted Obama as Sambo. Yes, Sambo. Another read, “Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds” — a reference to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory holding that one evil Jewish family has manipulated events around the globe for decades.
Little Black Sambo!
But I bet the guy holding it would be OUTRAGED!!! at anyone suggesting he might be racist!
Here’s that Holocaust sign, by the way:
Dachau = Health care reform.
Right. So then after posting this, Sullivan goes on to say:
This kind of rhetoric - on the same day that the Fort Hood massacre took place - is gasoline on a fire of atavistic hate. Someone in the GOP leadership needs to call it out - before its logic propels us toward more violence and social division.
Hahahahahaha.
The GOP is attempting to ride that social division - and the violence it must create - back to power. It’s their only path to power.
I said this back in the video “Teabag Hippies” - what we’re seeing here are the remnants of a once-dominant political sentiment reduced to minority status. And they resent it, and the extremism flows from that. Just as the Weathermen grew out of the Students for a Democratic Society, just as Stokely Carmichael emerged from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, so too do radical right-wingers now emerge from once mainstream, or more mainstream, conservative Republican constituencies.
And for the very same reason: They’re not being listened to! The Weathermen went on their “Days of Rage” rampage because the establishment wasn’t listening to its demands that the U.S. get out of Vietnam. And so the only way to make the establishment listen was to get violent.
Is there anyone who’s going to seriously deny that the teabag right has the exact same attitude now? Of course it does; it must. Nancy Pelosi won’t listen! Nancy Pelosi must be made to listen; and if you can’t dislodge her via the ballot box, and the teabag protests don’t do it - what will?
