I'm kind of at a lost as to how to begin here. Morons like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh always call those they disagree with as 'far left.' Media Matters, for example, is far left. So is John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, network news reporters and anchors, and, I'm pretty damned sure, Woodsy Owl (environmentalist, you see).So terms like 'extremist' and 'far whatever pole' have been devalued. In fact, they've become meaningless. 'Left' is no different than 'far left' and 'extremists' is synonymous with 'not republican.'
My problem here is that I'm going to be talking about the far right and the extreme right. The paranoid and squirrellier-than-a-walnut grove right and the positively evil right. And I need to make the distinction. So, for the purpose of this post, 'far right' means all the fruitloops who think the UN is taking over the world and global warming is a scam to bring back communism.
'Extreme right' means what it always has -- freakin' nazis.
We'll start with a warning from the far right:
Jerome R. Corsi (one of the 'swift boat vets'), Human Events:
President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.
Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.
President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming, much as the European Union has formed.
Kind of a mix of the true and the nuts. Bush undoubtedly wants to expand NAFTA, but there's no evidence at all that he's pursuing a 'North American Union' comparable to the EU. Which brings us to the extreme right.
Prophecy Club, via Right Wing Watch:
From her own experience, Mrs. Kitty Werthmann will help you see we are walking the same path as the Nazi's. She was 12 years old living in Austria. At that time, there was order, prayer and pictures of Jesus. Hitler took over and all that was removed! Unemployment rose to 35%, bank loans rose to 25%, unions called strikes, all this with 98% of the people claiming to be Catholic!
Soon there was massive welfare. Cries went out for equal rights for women. Socialism took women out of the home, raising the children, and into the factories. They took the children away from the family and raised them by the state. The Health department offered training for the elderly but they were killed.
Hear her tell how the U.S. is going the same way!
This idea, that the US is about to be taken over by nazis, is being pushed by Phyllis Schlafly and the Eagle Forum. You might've noticed how the nazis made a little historical shift here -- instead of being radical opponents of communism, the nazis have been recast as communists (or, at least, socialists) themselves. Believing this stuff requires a jawdropping ignorance of history. Welcome to the world of the far right...
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