Friday, April 10, 2009

"Representative Bachus claims there are only 17
Socialists in the House. What a namby-pamby
fellow traveler he is! There are 235 Communists
in the House, and I have the list here to prove it!"
Posted by Fearguth at 9:06 AM
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3 comments:

Betsy said...

Fearguth, this puzzles me and Rachel Maddow didn't explain it. What exactly does he MEAN by socialist. Do these people have an actual definition or is this a code word for communist--or is it just a plain fear tactic and they actually don't have a real definition for the word when they use it?

12:11 PM
Fearguth said...

In the late 50s-early 60s, the rightist equation was: Democrat=Liberal=Socialist=Communist. That's the way these terms are being used today. It's a fear tactic, but the only semantic content of all these terms in the mind of a rightist is 'bad' or 'evil'.

12:47 PM
Betsy said...

Thanks--Ithought so, but wasn't sure!

4:40 PM

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