I Hear Them

by digby

I've been getting some lectures about being derisive toward the tea partiers because they are decent people with valid complaints and it's wrong to demonize them. And I'm sure some of them are. However, those who follow Glenn Beck, which most of them do, listen to crap like this day in and day out, so it's hard for me to see why I should accord them any more respect than they accord to me:

Well, you see, the dirty little secret that communists, Marxists, and progressives don't want you to know is their system has never ever worked.

And not only has it never worked, it has led to some of the most horrifying outcomes in history. You think that guy -- you think that guy was the only one that did it? And you think this guy is from the right? Oh, yeah, really?

Make sure you tune in tomorrow. People wouldn't support Mao and they wouldn't be wearing a Mao hat if they knew they were endorsing somebody who killed tens of millions of people. That's Anita Dunn -- she said, you know, "One of the great philosophers that I think of most is Mao."

She knows who he is, but most Americans don't, because progressives tend to breeze past that little speed bump in history. I told you back in December that this program is going to change. Tomorrow is the first real step in that direction.

You see, progressives knew 100 years ago you can't win a battle against our Founding Fathers. Progressives had to change the course of history by changing history itself. If you can convince people that killers are cool, and get them to wear a t-shirt, you'll win their hearts and minds.

And then there's this:

Beck: The traditional Democratic party is going up against the radical fringe left. I've been telling you that there's a difference between Democrats and progressives from the beginning now but nobody wants to listen. Here it is. There are Blue Dog Democrats, but they are not socialists, Marxists radicals. They are more like your grand father's Democrat. Most Democrats still love America, they love the founders and they love the constitution and believe in this country. But then there's another group and they have infiltrated not just the Democratic party, but the Republican party...

How many times have I said they [progressives] are like a virus feeding on the host of republic?

The progressives are parasites inside the Democrat Party...

John Amato of Crooksandliars wrote on Huffington Post, "for Woolsey to holding a fundraising events for a known Blue Dog should be a firing offense for the CPC." Progressive Democrats for America joined in, They started an online petition asking her to withdraw from the event. Woolsey said no. I don't know how this story ends quite frankly --- it's California and it's all going to end in a mudslide right into the bottom of the ocean eventually anyway --- but let me tell you something. The last time the progressives were in this position and they started gobbling power and they exposed themselves, people caught on and hated them.

When the teapartiers repudiate this jackass, I'll be polite to them. Until then, I have to assume they agree that I am a "parasite" and a "virus" and I'm just not inclined to excuse it or be politically "pragmatic" and seek an obviously impossible common ground. I'll leave that to the Village which, I'm afraid, is far too willing to validate the spirit, if not the letter, of what Beck is saying as well.


Update: And then there's this.

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