Bush & Co. Fulfill Godwin’s Law
Some of you may know of Godwin’s Law, a.k.a. Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies: It states, “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
The Bush Administration has fulfilled Godwin’s Law. Usually, Godwin’s Law applies to internet discussions but, in this case, they’ve fulfilled it on a global, political, mass-media scale. Someone needs to let these people know this ain’t a web-forum flame-war– This is a real war floated on lies and propaganda and one that’s costing many thousands of lives. Their lame attempts to equate their policies with something on the scale of fighting Hitler and Nazism 60-plus years ago simply doesn’t wash. As they say down in Gee-Dubya’s neck of the woods, “That dog don’t hunt.”
According to Bush’s neo-conservatives, we are no longer fighting terrorism, we’re fighting “Islamo-Facists” who are similar, if not the same, as the Nazis and Facists who rose to power in the 1930s. And, according to Donald Rumsfield, if you’re not in agreement with them (him) and those like them (him), you’re an appeaser: In other words, you’re no different than those who tried to appease Hitler rather than stand against him as he, Hitler, marched to infamy.
Not too many years ago, those who opposed the policies of the government were branded “pink-ohs” and “commies.” The new, internet-age, response to the same sort of dissent seems to be labeling those who dissent as “appeasers” and, I’ll predict, labeling them outright Facist sympathizers or even Nazis won’t be far behind.
It’s pathetic. This country was built on dissent. Without dissent there would have been no American Revolution. Without dissent there would have been no emancipation for slaves. Without dissent, this country would be the very same sort of place that Nazi Germany became in the late 30s. And yet some of these Republicans–members of a party with a long-history of voicing dissent–have become the very thing they are trying to warn us against.
It is pathetic and shameful. Apparently, the neo-cons are so concerned their power-base is in danger of being voted-out that they’re resorting to this sort of propaganda. It remains to be seen whether the American people are dumb enough to buy into this crap. Personally, I’m not optimistic.
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