{"id":7344,"date":"2009-08-07T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T18:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7344"},"modified":"2009-08-07T11:47:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T18:47:44","slug":"right-wing-turncoat-frank-schaeffer-repub-healthcare-mobs-industry-sponsored-full-blown-american-version-of-the-nazi-brown-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7344","title":{"rendered":"‘Right-Wing Turncoat’ Frank Schaeffer: Repub Healthcare Mobs Industry-Sponsored, ‘Full Blown American Version of the Nazi Brown Shirts’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Devastating. From someone who knows these tactics well. And, if the corporate media wasn’t under an almost complete stranglehold, such an op-ed from someone like Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back<\/i><\/a>\"\", might actually make a difference.<\/p>\n

He says the Republican\/industry-run health care “protest” mobs<\/a> have become “a full blown American version of the Nazi Brown Shirts”, the Republican party has now become “profoundly anti-American”, and that “They can’t compute that their white man-led conservative revolution is dead.”<\/p>\n

Here’s just a few of the money quotes from his must-read at Alternet today<\/a> which suggests, most disturbingly — as I have long worried since this corporatist\/Republicanist-inflamed thuggery began<\/a> — that it may not stop until someone actually ends up dead…<\/p>\n

The Republican Old Guard are in the fix an atheist would be in if Jesus showed up and raised his mother from the dead: Their world view has just been shattered. Obama’s election has driven them over the edge.
\n…
\nHaving failed at the ballot box, having watched their Fox News-organized “tea parties” fizzle the intimidation tactics which the Republicans have embraced are being used in a well-financed, top-down orchestrated fake grass roots campaign by corporate interests to try and protect the profits of the insurance business.
\n…
\nDemocratic members of Congress are being harassed by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior at local town halls. It’s the tactic we used to follow abortion providers around their neighborhoods. “Protesters” surrounded Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and forced police officers to have to escort him to his car for safety. We used to do the same to Dr. Tiller… until someone killed him.<\/div>\n

Please read his entire piece<\/a>, or at least the rest of what I’ve quoted from it below…<\/p>\n

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They can’t compute that their white man-led conservative revolution is dead. They can’t reconcile their idea of themselves with the fact that white men like them don’t run the country any more — and never will again<\/i>. To them the black president is leading a column of the “other” into their promised land. Gays, immigrants, blacks, progressives, even a female Hispanic appointed to the Supreme Court… for them this is the Apocalypse.
\n…
\nDick Army and company have been driven mad by their reversal, not just of political fortunes but of seeing that they’ve wasted their lives. They now know they were wrong: about the country, the free market, war for fun and profit, and what the American people really want. They made their best case and were rejected by the American people — and by history<\/i>. Bush was their man and he turned out to be a fool. So now all the the Republican gurus have left is what the defeated Germans of World War Two had: a scorched earth policy. If they can’t win then everyone must go down. Obama must fail! The country must fail!
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\nThere is no daylight between the Republican Party, the health-care insurance industry, far right leaders like Dick Armey, the legion of insurance lobbyists, and now, a small army of thugs<\/i>. All we’re missing is actual uniforms, otherwise we now have a full blown American version of the Nazi Brown Shirts.<\/p>\n

No, I don’t believe that these people are about to take over the country. No, the sky is not falling. But the Republican Party is. It is now profoundly anti-American.
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\nHere’s the emerging American version of the fascist’s formula: combine millions of dollars of lobbyists’ money with embittered troublemakers who have a small army of not terribly bright white angry people (collected over decades through pro-life mass mailing networks) at their beck and call, ever ready to believe any myth or lie circulated by the semi literate and completely and routinely misinformed right wing — Evangelical religious underground. Then put his little mob together with the insurance companies’ big bucks. That’s how it works — American Brown Shirts at the ready. <\/p>\n

What’s the results of the fascist formula for the rest of us? Well, think how this “method” worked against Dr. Tiller’s abortion clinic and how that story ended.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Devastating. From someone who knows these tactics well. And, if the corporate media wasn’t under an almost complete stranglehold, such an op-ed from someone like Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,288,188,300,110],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dirty-tricks","category-health-care","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-republicans","category-whistleblowers","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7344"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}