Keep Your Damn Socialist Hands Off My Medicare!

Rioting for the LORD?

(HuffPo)

"Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, has compared the scenes at health care town halls to the 'Brooks Brothers riot' in 2000 — the demonstration that disrupted the vote count in Miami and arguably helped send George W. Bush to the White House.

"Portrayed at the time as local protesters, many of the rioters were actually G.O.P. staffers flown in from Washington."

— Paul Krugman, NYTimes

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The GOP of the 1980s had their goose-stepping obsession with the 1950s, not realizing that particular history ended in a terrible recession that drove the Republicans out of power and the country running into Kennedy's arms.

"There’s a famous Norman Rockwell painting titled 'Freedom of Speech,' depicting an idealized American town meeting.

"The painting, part of a series illustrating F.D.R.’s 'Four Freedoms,' shows an ordinary citizen expressing an unpopular opinion. His neighbors obviously don’t like what he’s saying, but they’re letting him speak his mind."

Today's Neandercons are just as obsessed with the 1980s, and they seem to be also very unaware that three deregulated Reaganomic recessions drove the party right back out of power.

"That’s a far cry from what has been happening at recent town halls, where angry protesters — some of them, with no apparent sense of irony, shouting "This is America!" — have been drowning out, and in some cases threatening, members of Congress trying to talk about health reform."

Sometime around 2020... after America has forgotten these absurdities... the reconstituted Republican Party will look back at the 2000s as the last greatest apex of GOP hegemony, their hey day, never remembering it's exactly what drove the whole world to near depression... and completely totaled America's moral standing around the globe.

There's no stopping the fact that enough of us are going to forget it.

You can't make this stuff up:

"There was a telling incident at a town hall held by Representative Gene Green, D-Tex. An activist turned to his fellow attendees and asked if they “oppose any form of socialized or government-run health care.” Nearly all did. Then Representative Green asked how many of those present were on Medicare. Almost half raised their hands."

— Krugman

We've seen it all before, and we'll see it all again, only bigger and much more dangerous next time... because Americans will forget about these Faux Noose brown shirts and their bootjack hooliganism.


Ultimately, many of us are to blame, even as we avoid Faux Noose, because we consume plenty of other Murdoch products that keep his rope swinging, shows like the Simpsons...
Lie to Me
Arrested Development
King of the Hill
Doll house
Fringe
House
Life on Mars
That '70s Show
Fire Fly
Bones
MADtv
Futurama
Buffy
Rescue Me
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Prison Break
X-Files
Glee
Family Guy
The Wrestler
Secret Life of Bees
Slumdog Millionaire
X-Men
Fast Food Nation
Ice Age
Borat
Notes on a Scandal
Once
Marley and Me
Juno
The Savages
Waitress
Bride Wars
Little Miss Sunshine
The Darjeeling Limited
28 Days Later
The Last King of Scotland
Garden State
Night at the Museum
(500) Days of Summer
Thank You For Smoking
Millions
Sideways
Kinsey
Waking Life
Boys Don't Cry

...and so on and so forth.

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