First, you tell a big lie - and you repeat it over and over

[OmahaBlueDog]

--- that would be the birthers, who are gaining increasing coverage telling a lie that has been debunked over and over.

Then, you insite violence -- but you blame the other side

--- that would be the town hall thugs, while Michael Steele accuses the Dems of smear tactics.

If I remember my German history correctly, the next two steps are for a charismatic leader to emerge on the stage, the thughs start forming para-military groups with snappy unis, and they find a minority group to demonize.

Am I missing something here?

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Nope.

[Hannah Bell]

2. ask why they're getting publicity, & who's giving it to them, when anti-war

marches with thousands of people had a hard time getting tv time.

who's encouraging violence?

why, it's the PTB!!

[nc4bo]

11. Exactly. nt

[lapfog_1]

3. They have their charismatic leader

It's sister Sarah.

Yeah, I know she has been dismissed by thinking Americans. But Hitler suffered his setbacks as well.

As for the hatred at minorities, I think there will be two. Homosexuals and atheists.

Just as there were two in Germany (Jews and Gypsies).

[abumbyanyothername]

4. You got it.

But I got you confused with OmahaSteve, and wondered why this wasn't a pro-labor post! :-)

[Hekate]

5. They've been doing it for quite a few years now, having demonized the very word "liberal"...

... then moving on the other things. This is being orchestrated by the vilest of puppetmasters, and I knew they weren't going to go quietly just because we elected Barack Obama. I took my joy in his election and inauguration as I could, knowing this day would surely come. We do not have our country back yet.

Hekate

[DURHAM D]

6. Your subject line is a page from Newt's training manual -

pretty much word for word.

Actually - he learned it from Lee Atwater who learned it from Hitler.

[Greyhound]

7. Actually it was Goebbels who learned it from Sigmund Freud's nephew or cousin,

I can't recall which right now. Perhaps someone else will fill in the correct information.

[D-Lee]

8. Look at McCamy Taylor's insightful post on this very subject

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor

Awesome!

[Echo In Light]

9. You've described PNAC, BushCo, 9/11, Patriot Act, and the subsequent invasions

[Orsino]

10. Thank goodness that their assholish belief systems...

...seem generally to preclude anything close to actual charisma in nearly any of them. Gives us time to prepare.