The Tea Party Nation has repeatedly demonstrated a commitment to drinking the PCP-laced Kool-Aid in the past. And let us not forget their complete and utter contempt for spelling. Well, their latest theory will make you ponder if humanity still has a role to play, all while you wonder “how can these people breathe the same air?”
Tea Party Nation Thinks Obama Logo Is A Swastika.
A horribly confused Tea Party Nation writer is convinced that President Obama’s popular campaign logo is actually the “new American Swastika.” Allow me to reiterate for readers with blood coming out of their eyes: a Tea Party Nation writer has equated a mundane campaign logo to one that’s associated with the murder of six million Jews.
Tea Party Nation Writer Darwin Rockantansky writes:
According to the “design team” under the guidance of David Axelrod, the current regime’s iteration of Joseph Goebbels, “The Sun Rising over the horizon evoked a new sense of hope”. Really? Here is what I see. We in the western world read from left to right, top to bottom, so this is what I read…When I see an arch of almost any color on a background I think of a rainbow. Reading from left to right, that would put the right side of the arch at “the end of the rainbow”.
Okay, Rockantansky just lost his WordPress privileges for one week.
A Disturbing Theme Which Refuses To Go Away
A disturbing theme in the Tea Party is that President Obama’s rather center-right government is reminiscent of Nazi Germany. During the “summer of scream” in 2009, swarms of misinformed citizens made signs that depicted Obama as Hitler, all while decrying his signature Affordable Care Act. After all, one simply can’t open a history textbook without encountering page after page detailing the Führer’s health care plan. But the Tea Party’s blind obsession with presenting Obama as a fascist overlord hasn’t just been relegated to healthcare. Oh no. They’ve also used it in the gun debate, with hilariously wrong results. In addition, they claim that very basic regulations are in line with Adolf Hitler. Tea Party Nation darlings like Matt Drudge shook an always ready to explode can of soda when they claimed that Gun Confiscation was a touchstone of Nazi Germany. Clearly, the evil Socialist-in-chief was attempting to do the same! Revisionism is a course that the Tea Party Nation could pass with flying colors. Just make sure those colors are all white, thank you very much!
University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt thoroughly debunked this conservative myth in a 2004 article published in the Fordham Law Review. It was the Weimar Republic, the government that cam before, that had very strict gun laws, not the Nazi regime. Following its miserable defeat in WWI and the ruinous conditions laid out in the Treaty of Versailles, the German legislature in 1919 passed a law that effectively banned all private firearm possession. They further restricted firearms ownership again in 1928. When the Nazi’s rose to power, they expanded gun ownership for all German citizens in 1938 with some of the most lax restrictions in history. The exact opposite of what the right claims.
Once again, the Tea Party Nation chooses to delve in totally absurd and irrelevant claims while the adults try to get things done.
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