History reveals that when income inequality, high unemployment, declining wages and increasingly struggling households become frustrated, they are easy prey to those who would convince them that 'THOSE OTHERS' are the cause.

'THOSE OTHERS' are easily defined.

You know who 'THOSE OTHERS' are.

They're DIFFERENT. They're not white. Maybe they weren't born here. They may be 'DIFFERENT' by any number of definitions.

The Nazis employed the strategy effectively and the Koch-Funded Tea Baggers readily believe. It's the fault of 'THOSE OTHERS' and surely not the fault of FAILED REPUBLICAN ECONOMIC POLICY ! 

[TRICKLE DOWN A/K/A VOODOO ECONOMICS  has failed elsewhere, failed when Reagan deluded himself that it was wondrous and it took 12 years to dig ourselves out. Check out: Tinker Bell Pinochet and the Fairy Tale Miracle of Chile.]

Republicans have always used 'code words' to conceal their racism. Will white Americans continue to fall for the propaganda?

Michael Ashmore of Hooks, Tex. with a confederate flag in front of the White House. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

Tea Party Shows Racist Roots at White House Protest

By Jonathan Capehart, The Washington Post

15 October 13

f you want to curdle the blood of an African American and send a message of menace without resorting to burning a cross on the lawn or marching around in white sheets all one need do is wave the Confederate flag. So imagine my revulsion at the sight of one outside the front gates of the White House.

Michael Ashmore of Hooks, Tex., was among the many who converged on Washington for the "Million Vet March on the Memorials" to protest the government shutdown. This was the event where former half-term governor reality television star and best-selling author turned conservative gadfly Sarah Palin said, "Our vets have proven that they have not been timid, so we will not be timid in calling out any who would use our military, our vets, as pawns in a political game." Applauding her self-awareness would be the height of irony - and sarcasm.

 

The protest and some of the barricades placed at the World War II Memorial then moved to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. And it was there that Ashmore waved his Confederate flag. A symbol of Southern resistance and white supremacy unfurled in front of the home of the first black president of the United States. As Jeffrey Goldberg of Bloomberg View and the Atlantic correctly said on Twitter yesterday, "In many parts of America, waving a Confederate flag outside the home of a black family would be considered a very hostile act."

 

Ashmore's reprehensible rebel yell wasn't the only offensive thing to happen yesterday. In front of the World War II Memorial, Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman said, "I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up."

 

Ashmore's actions and Klayman's words are just the latest in a series of displays of disrespect directed at President Obama. For more than four years, the president's detractors have said they "want our country back." But they never say from whom. They continue to say he should be impeached. But they never say what his "crimes" or, if they do, said "crimes" are not grounded in any kind of reality.

 

For those of you who would push back by saying we're overreacting, that the Confederate flag is nothing more than a symbol of regional pride, save it. That flag you revere so much is no better than a Swastika, a threatening symbol of hate that has no place in American political discourse.

 

 

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