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By Shoq, on August 6, 2011, at 9:55 am
Grey Parker is one of those bloggers you stumble upon when someone in your stream says "you gotta read this." I did that some months ago, and ever since, I eagerly snap at his posts like a Venus Fly Trap that just got lucky. Today, Grey decided to respond to the execrable new Tokyo Rose
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By Shoq, on March 11, 2011, at 10:10 am
You must watch and understand this…
Republican-controlled Legislatures in 32 states are now pushing for the most onerous and restrictive voter registration laws in our history. Laws specifically designed to cripple new voting amid the people most effected by the near-fascist policies now being pushed down the throats of the middle class.
These are no longer long
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By Shoq, on January 17, 2011, at 9:33 pm
Nonsense is nonsense
…and it should be exposed as such; often and always. There are few right wing lies quite so annoying as "the Nazis were Leftists/Socialists/Communists" lie. The revisionist hooey whores like Jonah Goldberg have made it easier for this orchestrated stupidity to gain new traction with his "Liberal Fascism" screed. The left, as it
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By Shoq, on May 23, 2010, at 5:52 pm
I just watched…
one my favorite George Carlin clips, after laughing my ass off at the introduction to it on this site, which is another in a long line Alex Jones/Prison Planet conspiracy subsets of the insanity soiling and spoiling this nation.
Such manipulation is getting more common with each passing week, and this one
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By Shoq, on March 8, 2010, at 11:54 am
New America Foundation's Barry Lynn (author of Cornered), has a very important article in Washington Monthly called:
"Who Broke American Jobs."
In my view, all of our problems, from campaign financing, to media consolidation, to the government dysfunctionalism and hyper partisanship that is breaking down anything that ever made American a worthwhile
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By Shoq, on February 16, 2010, at 12:34 pm
Last Spring…
David Neiwert's The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, which sliced and diced the preposterous right wing revisionism of Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism," got a fair amount of attention in the press. Here's a brief taste of it:
And yet, here we are two years later, and it turns out that
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By Shoq, on February 9, 2010, at 11:54 am
Definitions
Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition. Websters
Fascism: A political regime, usually
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By Shoq, on February 6, 2010, at 3:10 pm
Try this at home
Get out a notepad, and spend an hour reading these two articles, which, while pretty general, do a very good job of reciting the bullet points of these eras.
As you read, write down points of interest which you think clearly resonate with our present populist "rebellions." They don't have to be exact
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