Please Quit Copying Me

It's interesting what difference a couple of months make. For the last 8 years, we've been constantly told that all people who would dare question presidential policies or (even worse) actively protest them are the most spineless, anti-American hate-mongers that exist. And to even begin to compare the rightist police-state tactics of Republicans to fascism was the highest form of treason, and just another example of how hyperbolic that loony left is.

Well, at barely over 100 days into the Obama administration, it's amazing how quickly he and the rest of the Dems have become HitlerStalin to right-wingers. And I'm not even sure why; I think it's about him raising the taxes on rich people a little. Now, I'm no Obama fan, but if we can't yell at the guy who started an illegal, immoral, and unjust war (to quote that late JPII) and completely destroyed our economy, why do you get to suggest secession just because a guy wants to change the marginal tax rate?

But my bigger beef is well encapsulated in the above photo (via Tim) -- the portrayal of Dems as both Nazis and Communists. Now I know that Republicans can't tell the difference between all people who are different from them (like when their names are hard to pronounce), but you can't be both a Nazi and a Communist; they're completely antithetical ideas.

Communism is a political system based on wide-spread political and economic equality, whereas fascism is a totalitarian corporate system of no representation and economic exploitation. Or, as an even simpler demonstration, 90% of all German Nazi war deaths occurred on the Eastern front, at the hands of the Soviet military. My guess is that if the commies single-handedly defeated the Nazis, they're probably not chomping at the bit to become best buddies...

But regardless of things like irony, obvious hypocrisy, and historical fact, it just never ceases to amaze me how quickly protesting the government has changed from the worst thing anyone could do to the highest calling for a patriot. Man, I wish everything I did was automatically right...