In reality, the new Brownshirts are, and have always been, the Democratic Party. Nice try at the attempted spinning transference though. 
 
Nothing like the Left trying to constantly silence the Right either through attempted marginalization or end-all "fairness act." 
 
Those old coots giving hell at townhall meeting are your grandmothers and grandfathers. And unlike the disrectful Left, the Right happen to love and appreciate their grandmothers and grandfathers and we don't consider them MOBS or "Brownshirts".... 
 
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That was certainly a fast response. Congratulations! 
 
I would be interested in the association Herr Null makes between the Brownshrits and the Democratic Party. Unfortunately He does not offer any explanation for this bizarre comparison either by way of the Democratic Party's actions or ideology.  
 
Of course everyone knows (perhaps with the exception of Herr Null) The Brownshirts were the infamous SA who helped Hitler’s rise to power by cracking the skulls of those dissidents they could not shout down at his early Town Hall meetings. The Brownshirts and their Italian cousins, the Blackshirts have always been associated with the fascist right- never to my knowledge with the Democratic Party. National Socialism has always stood for anti-Semitism. National Socialism represents the antithesis of democracy, socialism, neo-Marxism and all things the progressives in the Democratic Party have to some extent traditionally embraced—just the opposite of the Republican extreme right.  
 
”Nothing like the Left trying to constantly silence the Right either through attempted marginalization or end-all \"fairness act.\"  
 
One thing I think the Left will never be able to do will be to silence the rabid-Right. They cry when they are in power just as loudly as when they are out of power. I don’t mind listening to them once in a great while. It provides a little humor in what might be an otherwise dull routine. Of course they said the same thing about Hitler…. 
 
I challenge Herr Null’s claim that the Rights love their grandmothers more than I love mine. The last time I saw her I gave her a big kiss on her cold nose and told her just how much I loved her—just before kicking her adrift on her ice flow. 
 
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Dear Nanook, 
 
Interestingly someone asked me yesterday if I believe this very scenario is possible. I think civil war is possible. I think the rabid right is foaming at the mouth and buying, apparently, lots of ammo. But I think this is being fomented by the neoconservatives who know full well that ultimately only under a blanket of mass outrage will Cheney/Bush and Co. ever not be prosecuted. They are literally covered from the consequences of their crimes - until this hysteria settles down. I actually think this was somewhat inevitable given that you can only whip up mobs so far before they have to kill. The corporate media powers and armaments industries have been making way too much profit from this whole song and dance of the last ten/fifteen years to let go soon. Corporate America is aligned against the citizenry who claim the rights of justice and diplomacy, and unfortunately, like spoiled children who discover that someone has removed one of their many toys, American exceptionalism has bred this. Looking in from the outside - I live in Canada - the USA went berserk beginning with Clintons penis as an event and it\'s been steeply downhill ever since. The mark of the right is that they project their insanity onto everyone else and thus no one is safe with a far right \'victim.\' 
 
I think Obama is just trying to surf over all of this and to placate the powers that be. He may be in the most elevated position in America, but he\'s mostly just puppeting along with an eye to corporate interests. He has nothing to fear from the left....we didn\'t vote for Palin and what\'s his name for clearly good reason. Until there is a viable third way as there is here in Canada, I think we (I\'m American) will be at the mercy of the right. However the bigger question is when will we, as a democratic nation return to representative democracy. Not corporate democracy, which obviously doesnt\' work and which, at some point, the piper must be paid.  
 
Also, Bob, excellent rebuttal points re: Nazi Germany. Most of these people wouldn\'t recognize facism if it rolled over on them. The dumbed are all dumbed down now.

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