re: #15 Belafon

Part of me is on this guys page, part of me not so much.

One my “issues” with “the left” during most of the GWB Administration was I felt there was a lot of over the top hysterical histrionics about how close to being Hitler GWB was (he wasn’t) and there was a “Boy Who Cried Wolf” issue with the opposition to Bush.

If you scream about how Bush is a fascist dictator who’s going to declare an emergency and cancel the election…. TWICE… and nothing remotely like that actually happens, who will listen or care what you are screaming about when it actually might be happening.

George W. Bush was a horrible President, and his administration did seriously fucked up things, but they weren’t the Nazis. Not even remotely. Godwin’s Law definitely still applied. I said often “If you think this is fascism, you are either an idiot or you are being intellectually dishonest.”

I fear a lot of people who are blowing off any danger from FFVCS are people saying “yeah you said all this shit about Bush too and nothing happened”.

BUT… part of me also wonders… am I, or others concerned about this, being over the top or engaging in doom porn? Are we giving these mafia clowns too much credit?