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Fri Aug 8, 2014, 02:45 PM Aug 2014

Far-right nuttiness of the day, so far...

These guys were just slammed in the head once too often with a big family Bible.


Kevin Swanson: Red Tyrant Abraham Lincoln Introduced Communism To America

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 8/8/2014 2:15 pm

On his radio show last month, Religious Right broadcaster Kevin Swanson hosted a neo-Confederate author to discuss how Abraham Lincoln used the Civil War — or as he called it, “The War Against The South” — to impose socialism on America.

Swanson is adding Lincoln to the list of people, such as Mark Twain, who he believes ruined the country by replacing Antebellum slavery with Big Government socialist slavery.

“It’s the socialist utopians that come into town and they promise deliverance from local fiefdoms only to create a large tyranny in the Soviet Union, Soviet America and Soviet China and Soviet everywhere else in the world,” he said.

Swanson spoke with Walter Kennedy, the author of books such as “Lincoln’s Marxists” and “Red Republicans and Lincoln’s Marxists: Marxism in the Civil War.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Kennedy as “a member of the hard core of the neo-Confederate movement” and “a founding member of the League of the South,” who has “called for a new Southern secession to escape the ‘overgrown and unresponsive’ federal government.” He also co-wrote a book entitled “The South Was Right!,” which defended Southern slavery.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kevin-swanson-red-tyrant-abraham-lincoln-introduced-communism-america#sthash.dy6mpu3S.dpuf

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Far-right nuttiness of the day, so far... (Original Post) Archae Aug 2014 OP
They want a war with all of us, dont they randys1 Aug 2014 #1
What an idiot shenmue Aug 2014 #2

shenmue

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2. What an idiot
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 03:04 PM
Aug 2014

400,000 Northerners died defending their country and it wouldn't be the United States today without them.

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