re: #39 Ming

I don’t understand why the “right wing” is sinking so low. In recent weeks, posts at LGF (and other web sites) leave me astonished. OK, it was bad enough to learn that one of the Republican contenders, Ron Paul, has had extensive personal associations for decades with white supremacists. Now, at CPAC, the other front-runners (Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum) appear openly with white supremacists?

Can we sort of dismiss this as not-super-unusual, and say, e.g. well Barack Obama associated with Jeremiah Wright, whose church in 2007 published an article that said that AIDS was engineered in Israel for the purpose of killing people of color? I’m afraid not. There’s something that uniquely bothers me about the current right-wing expressions of hatred. There’s a sense of the apocalyptic, that this isn’t an honest disagreement, but the mother of all battles between Good and Evil.

I suspect it was basically the same in Germany in the 1930’s.

Good comment but you kind of Godwinned yourself there near the end. Yes things are bad. Both sides have pandered to their own radicals but the Republicans have a uniquely bad problem. However, we live in a very stable society even with the shitty economy. I don’t think there’s much realistic danger of Republicans going all Nazi on us.