Listen Up, You Moron.

Apropos of Senator Robery Byrd comparing Republicans to Nazis (except that the Nazis actually kept the rule of law, says he) we have this:

Apparently no one can invoke Adolph Hitler or the rise of Nazism without paying a royalty:

Let me be a bit more polite than I feel.

No, dumbass. No one can invoke Adolph Hitler or the rise of Nazism until the conditions actually resemble the time of Hitler and the rise of Nazism.

If you’re wondering what that might have looked like, I can suggest any number of history books and recommend highly that you read them instead of defending the unbelievably stupid and supremely insulting remarks made by this former Klansman and Democrat in good standing (and yes, I am exactly pointing out the irony of your defending a Nazi reference made by a man who once filibustered against allowing blacks their civil rights).

Get your head out of your ass, Mr. Condescending Democrat and realize that until we have brownshirts in the streets intimidating the opposition, we’re not even in the same ballpark as the rise of Nazi Germany.

Oh wait…we had that in the last election, didn’t we. Did you hear supporters of the President making brownshirt comparisons in response to actual brownshirt-like behavior?

No. Because we don’t relish hitting the epithet button every chance we get. We don’t keep the most horrible atrocity committed by man in the history of the world in our back pocket to whip out like a cudgel on anyone we don’t like. We respect the memories of 6 million dead jews, and millions more dead soldiers and civilians by not using it as a cheap rhetorical bomb to lob anytime we get into a snit.

You may not believe it, but a lot of us notice. We notice who’s using the word “Nazi” and who is starting the ideological purges and strongarm intimidation that heralded the rise of the National Socialist party. We notice that although these methods lie only in the realm of bombastic bloviation, they are often punctuated by threats of physical violence and occasionally by actual incidents of physical violence. We notice that there’s one hell of a fine line between talking like a brownshirt and acting like a brownshirt and that, even though you may be on the good side of that line, a dip of the toe into Krystallnacht Lake doesn’t always take a huge shove.

All it takes is some continued rhetoric about hate and evil to turn it into a public movement. There’s your nice Brownshirt Stew, complete with everything a burgeoning fascist state to get itself a nice, rollicking start.

A lot of us out here have noticed that and we’re not at all amused. We don’t think comments like those from Byrd are innocent and we don’t think that defenses of that sort of idiocy are cute or reasonable. We’re glad every day that the American voters seem to be seeing the very same thing and that they don’t give you or your ilk more power than you already have. You’ve already shown us that you can’t moderate yourselves in public. History shows us that your brand of facile thought might not just be entertaining buffonery. It could well be dangerous. We’re just not willing to give you the keys to the country while you’re frothing at the mouth.

UPDATE: Yeah, I know this is a bit of a bummer post. In my defense, though, I haven’t broken of a little summthin-summthin in a few weeks and this one just seemed to be tailor-made for some spleen-juice. Sorry, about that. I promise bunnies and happy daisies in the very near future. Honest!

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