Something Wicked This Way Comes

i've got that quicksand feeling again.

moscow times link via commentor Peter at david neiwert's blog.

thanks to BadTux for articulating what i have been trying to verbalize myself:

I think we're seeing another method used by the proto-facists here. If there is a discussion by leftists, they will use the blog equivalent of force to disrupt it, including spamming nonsense from their Party commissars like the "CBS investigation" silliness, just like Hitler's brownshirts would use real force to disrupt physical meetings of leftists and socialists in Germany. In the end, brownshirts are brownshirts. Their goal is to disrupt any competition to their Great Leader's propaganda network.

The problem is that liberals let them get away with it. I lasted maybe 4 weeks on Tacitus by emphasizing my Libertarian roots.. I would have probably lasted 1 hour on Little Green Genociders, Libertarian or not. Yet you liberal wusses let the brownshirts come in and disrupt your blogs because you're convinced you can "convert" the brownshirts. Hint: There's no way you can convert someone who has sold his soul to fascism. You can no more convert the Freeper brownshirts coming to this blog than you could convert SS blackshirts in 1938. We are generally talking about poorly educated powerless people who have expertly had their power fantasies fed by the proto-fascists, who rejoice in their newly-found power to intimidate other people. There is nothing we can offer them that will similarly allow them to feed those puerile power fantasies. Only complete and utter national disaster, similar to that which happened to Germany in 1945, will ever dissuade them, and even with the rather drastic measures the new German government had to take to eliminate fascism as a factor in German government, including outlawing all fascist speech as "hate speech"., there are still some neo-Nazis left in Germany.