From the PJ Tatler:
Perhaps this will serve as a wake-up to those still hoping the Democratic Party of 2011 is the Democratic Party of 1986. Speaker Boehner’s home was targeted by a protest mob. Maybe this protest will drive home that the rules seem to have changed. Unleashing intimidating mobs to affect policy is nothing new to some. Ask officials with Waste Management Corporation who saw their 1988 meetings with local banks in Chicago illegally raided by howling mobs. Stanley Kurtz has documented these tactics throughout Chicago in the late 1980s and 1990s in his book Radical in Chief. That gangs of activists are now showing up en masse, whether at people’s homes, or at state capitals, shouldn’t surprise anyone who has been paying attention, and certainly won’t surprise Kurtz who devotes an entire book to these new rules of politics. The only question is whether Republicans still think the old rules apply.
Its the Chicago Way, my friends – or, to put it more accurately, the Gangster Way. This is what the left is all about – they know they can’t win with ideas, so they are hoping to win by intimidation. “We know where you live”; that is the purpose of showing up at the Speaker’s house…they are trying to make him worry about his family and, by extension, frighten away people from backing him.
The taxpayer-funded union stooges who showed up in Wisconsin are just par for the course…as is the extreme nastiness of their signs and slogans. While we’re far away from any such thing, it must be noted that the sort of tactics being used by Obama’s Democrats are the tactics of those who want a civil war. Rank and file liberal foot soldiers might not realize it – and probably don’t, as not 1 in 100 of them has any real familiarity with history; if they did, they wouldn’t be liberals – but their leaders are playing a dangerous game. When you go to extremes, you tend to generate extremes.
And before any liberals out there try to pass off any revisionist history, this nastiness in our modern politics was created by Democrats. Specifically, it was the late Senator Ted Kennedy who turned American liberalism towards the nasty, hate-filled tactics of the extreme left wing back in 1986. When Kennedy accused Robert Bork of wanting to bring Gestapo-tactics and back alley abortions to America we, as a nation, entered the realm of gutter politics…and liberal Democrats have, year by year since then, ensured we’d go further and further in to that sewer. What was once the province of unreformed Stalinists is now the run-of-the-mill tactics of the Democrat party.
We can still head this off – we can still restore civility to American political life. But we can only do so by utterly crushing the Democrat party. We have to stand firm and keep hammering them until we defeat them so badly that they will wake up and crawl back out of the gutter. A better day will come for America – and it will come faster the more badly we beat these liberals.
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