Finally... Using the "S" Word.

You may have noticed (or not), I am not one of those people who says things like "Bush really scares me." I have two reasons for this.

One, I refuse to be intimidated by a pampered mental defective like George Bush, who has the snickering demeanor of a schoolyard punk who pushes the littler kids around before he is called back into his remedial reading class, or by his sneering, snarling, hunchbacked svengali Dick Cheney.

Two, while I understand the point people are making when they say Bush, or whoever, scares them, I feel that it damages our cause by playing into the neocons' hands: it gives them ammunition to accuse those who say it of being wimps.

Well, therein lies a tale. See, I went looking on the web for that quote by Herman Goering which has been knocked around the internet because it is so relevant to modern republican policy:

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy...the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and Hitler's designated successor.

So anyway, I went looking for this quote, but instead of "Goering" I typed in "Goebbels" (the other Nazi). The resulting quote I found by him was one of those pit-of-the-stomach deja vu experiences. In light of the rampant election fraud the republicans engaged in to place their leader in power, the quote is particularly chilling:

"We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come." - Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi German Propaganda Minister.

The fact that so many parallels exist between the republican party and the nazi party... that is scary.