Ted Cruz Is The MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA

[Segami]

"..Obviously, comparing any modern politician to Hitler, a man who killed millions, is ridiculous. But it still happens. So, utilizing the the tactics of the Tea Party, here is an ALARMIST and SARCASTIC graphic to hit you in the gut and scare the crap out of you.."

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Members of the Tea Party Caucus are a number of things: whackjobs, fanatics, blindingly white, etc. One thing they aren’t is very intellectually rigorous. In fact, they often rail against the over-educated. Ted Cruz is different. He is scary smart. After attending Princeton University, he went on to Harvard University Law School where Alan Dershowitz says Cruz was “off the charts brilliant.” Cruz was also such an elitist that he refused to study with anyone outside of Harvard, Yale and Princeton Graduates. Apparently, he has changed course, because he is BFFs with a cadre of folks he wouldn’t have touched with a 20-foot pole at Harvard. I don’t know if you have ever met a really smart person who is hanging out with people he considers idiots, but in my experience it’s because he can play them like fiddles. See: Jim Jones, Charlie Manson, David Koresh. Cruz is the puppeteer behind this “David Fincher directs the Muppets” show, and in my opinion, the most dangerous man in America.




Cruz’s army includes Steve King, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Mike Lee and every other wide-eyed idiot you hear stammering away on Fox News. They receive funding from Peter Thiel, the Koch Brothers and every other millionaire who would rather spend billions on making sure their taxes don’t rise than supporting programs that feed poor people. They poll-test talking points and then repeat them over and over again when speaking to reporters with absolutely no interest in having a conversation or addressing the actual issue presented by the questioner. These are politicians who actually believe that Obama is an Islamist Kenyan hellbent on destroying the United States. They think he’s an immigrant who wants to tear down American values brick by brick with the sickle and hammer of communism. They call him Hitler, but never really try to flesh out that argument.



Well, I’m going to tell you how Ted Cruz is actually like Adolf Hitler (but not really), and how he represents the potential for fascism in the United States. Every time I see Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz on television, I am overcome with the sense that he spends all his free time in the hidden room in his basement torturing the vagrants he keeps locked up down there with a cattle prod. He is a doughy, sunken-eyed alsoran, with a chip on his shoulder and undiagnosed sociopathy pulsing through his brilliant mind. He’s an unattractive, brilliant and deranged narcissist who plays on the fear of the people to gain power and influence using an army of uneducated, but incredibly loud imbeciles to do his dirty work. Visually, Ted Cruz brings to mind Hitler because they are both schlubby, mousy haired everymen, with the general bearing of Lord Voldemort. But there are more similarities than a lack of physical creepiness, there are also similarities in their biographies, viewpoints and paranoias.




Up until recently, the Tea Party has been relatively rudderless. Because it was run by nitwits, there was not much reason to believe that they had the potential to grow into a significant threat to American Democracy. With Cruz at the helm, the situation is significantly altered. Cruz is a brilliant speaker, thinker and strategist. He is a sociopath and narcissist whose highly tuned lack of empathy will allow him to act with a destructive capacity that most humans lack. He will be able prey on those less intellectual than him and has already worked a sizable chunk of the population into a paranoid and vicious rage.



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http://www.ryot.org/opinion-ted-cruz-is-the-most-dangerous-man-in-america/423753

[Loudly]

1. Would Texans vote him into office today after witnessing him in action?

[Javaman]

4. I think he's going to be a one term wonder. nt

[Stallion]

15. This Texan is Not so Sure

at least for another decade-we'll probably be stuck

[kelliekat44]

35. He really reminds me of Joe McCarthy. nt

[alato]

23. ya, i'm another texan that's not so sure

there's a whole lot of stupid down here

[calimary]

30. Welcome to DU, alato!

Glad you're here! I'm fearful that you may be correct. I put it to my best friend who moved to Texas awhile back thinking the job picture would be better there and the cost of living would be less. She's finding that neither is true. She's a lost soul now, politically, having gone over to the republi-CON side awhile ago. Months ago, when he first started feeling his oats and rearing his ugly head, I put it to her directly, while I was going off on a rant - "did YOU vote for ted cruz????" I went on ranting, granted. But I DID notice she said nothing. She was stone silent. Gave me that look - the blank-eyed stare that you get when you confront somebody or yell at 'em and they don't have anything to say in retort, or they know you're actually making the stronger point. She said nothing. I noticed at the time and I've thought about it a lot since. She would have at least concurred with me that he was bad or going overboard or SOMETHING. She said nothing. So I think she voted for him.

[alato]

34. thank you for the welcome calimary!!

i was born and raised in west texas. bible belt, hypocritical red bloods through and through. it took me up until my junior year in high school (redistricting) to realize that people out there really have their heads in the sand, and this state is pathetic. everyone and there mom has "seen these mooches buying cokes and crab legs" with their WIC cards and whatnot. I seem to have to set my parents straight every time i hear this shit from my parents that, you know, I remember getting ALL OF MY VACCINES AT WIC AS A CHILD, MOM & DAD...I REMEMBER BEING ON FOOD STAMPS MOM AND DAD! but typically, they just think they were surviving. most of my friends are the same way back home, and i just avoid the convo before i start yellling yada yada. getting off on a tangent here, so i'll stop venting.

i'm in the 3rd largest city and love it. making a living wage and having a little money to enjoy the places here has got me a through and through liberal in my adult years. moving to a fairly liberal city is the best thing i ever did.

ps. thanks castro bros.!!

[TeamPooka]

32. It's Texas. He's a Senator for life now.

[LiberalEsto]

2. I agree. I am deeply concerned about the way he acts

I've also seen something saying that his father is some kind of Dominionist minister. Which is even more scary, if it's true.

[Bobcat]

3. Dominionist

I am more concerned about the delusion promote by his father (a Dominionist) that he is an "anointed" one. I find this very disconcerting. Why should one who is "anointed" reason with anyone about anything? Unfortunately, we have not heard the last of "King" Cruz.

[dchill]

21. That is a key point.

Key.

[libdem4life]

29. The word "reign" gets thrown around with "annointed" a lot with the laying on of hands.

Those folks that hear voices in their head and claim it's from god then think they can channel it and pass it on...loony.
Same for Palin.

Didn't work for her, predict it won't work for him. Adults that remember the US has this small matter of the separation of church and state, which rules out theocracy, will ultimately save us from him as well.

[calimary]

31. Welcome to DU, Bobcat!

Good to have you with us! Dominionists scare the hell outta me because there IS no way to get through to them. They think they're flat-out chosen by God and there's just really no way to respond or rebut. What is the opposite side to take then, with these people, with these parameters they've set up? To be against them automatically puts you with the Devil, as far as they're concerned. There's no middle ground. There's no compromise because the way they've set it up, because you dare not compromise with the Devil, do you? There's no way around it here. You're immediately in the WAY wrong.

DEAR GOD, SAVE ME FROM YOUR FUCKING FOLLOWERS!!!!!!!

[liberal N proud]

5. Don't know if he is another Hitler, but his presence in government worries me.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. We've found the Antichrist.

Oh, please. The guy's an idiot that has managed to cost us all a huge amount of pain.

But he's not Hitler.

[Berbalang]

36. Something I'd noticed about Ted Cruz

In regards to Ted Cruz possibly being the Anti-Christ I cannot help noticing that:

A=18=6+6+6
B=24=6+6+6+6
C=30=6+6+6+6+6
D=36=6+6+6+6+6+6
(Continue pattern through the alphabet.)

T=132
E= 42
D= 36
C= 30
R=120
U=138
Z=168
——–
666

I freely give permission to use and spread this proof.

[gopiscrap]

7. agreed Cruz is very dengerous

[flamingdem]

8. Culturally Cuban

on his dad's side. Obviously generalizing here but --- Cubans have told me that they as a people are "extremistas" - extremists. We can see some of this intensity in the battle between those on the island and the right wing Cuban exiles in Miami. They use bombs, not words, or did. Culturally there is what they call throwing gasoline on the fire. Instead of trying to lower the intensity of a battle, conflict, they will stimulate it further. ymmv

[Bluenorthwest]

9. I think he'd be dangerous if he had any skill. Legislatively he lacks all ability.

The author of this piece thinks much more highly of Ted than I do.

[SDjack]

10. He is not the most dangerous. Instead, he holds the most dangerous position in

American politics: leader of the crazy Tea Party.

[niyad]

11. k and r for a most interesting article. the graphic should scare people.

[TBF]

12. Sometimes I see these comparisons as silly -

but I really can't argue with this. I view Ted Cruz as a serious threat. He has gained a lot of support here in Texas and is obviously the Heritage Foundation's pick for presidential candidates in 2016.

This little shutdown of his resulted in a gain of M$1.19 :Update, 8:00 p.m.: Our apologies. We vastly underreported one of the Senators' fundraising. Cruz's. His state director, John Drogin, emails to note that combining all of the senator's accounts (including his reelection and leadership PACs) yields a haul of $1.19 million from 12,000 individual donors. So there you go. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/ted-cruz-filibuter-paid/70582/

He is completely focused on his fundraising for 2106.

So this is what we are up against.

[northoftheborder]

13. Never underestimate Texans' willingness to elect crazy people.

[spanone]

14. yes he is. harvard taught, texas stupid.

[kydo]

16. I want to put a sign like the graphic in the OP

in my front yard in time for Halloween and leave it there until 2016.

[Faryn Balyncd]

17. CHILLING video: Ted's dad's dominionist theology of "end times transfer of wealth" by "annointed":

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017152422


Ted has literally received an "annointing" to "take dominion" by those who have combined a shameless "prosperity gospel" appeal to greed with a hardcore "dominion theology" which openly advocates taking "dominion" over every aspect of culture, politics, education and economics. Ted's dad tells the salivating audience that they are annointed as "kings", the battlefield is the marketplace, that kings cannot be victorious without the blessings of the priests, and that their role is to take dominion in the marketplace and bring "the spoils of war" back to the priests.

His host pastor, Larry Huch of New Beginnings church, tells the audience, while introducing Cruz, that "God is looking at the church, and deciding, in the next 3 1/2 years, who will be His bankers" and "you can trust me, we will become so blessed that we will usher in the coming of the Messiah. This message is for you." Subsequently, with his arm around Daddy Cruz, Huch states, "Listen to me, in the next 3 1/2 years ...We're not waitin' 3 1/2 years. It's the end times transfer of wealth."

Here's a little more from Huch's indroction of Cruz:

We've been doing this series here that God laid on my heart: Getting to the top and staying there. A message for us as individuals, the kingdom of God, but also for America. It's not enough to get there. We need to stay there. It's not a coincidence that in a few weeks, we go into what's called in the Bible Rosh Hashanad [sic]... It will be the beginning of the spiritual year 2012. The number 12 means divine government. That God will begin to rule and reign. Not Wall Street, not Washington, God's people and His kingdom will begin to rule and reign. I know that's why God got Rafael's son elected, Ted Cruz the next senator.

But here's the exciting thing... The rabbinical teaching is... that in a few weeks begins that year 2012 and that this will begin what we call the end-time transfer of wealth. And that when these Gentiles begin to receive this blessing, they will never go back financially through the valley again...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/morgan-guyton/the-theology-of-governmen_b_4020537.html

These folks are beyond believable.

[snagglepuss]

18. You're right they are beyond belief. Jawdropping delusional.

Cruz is going to regret this shutdown fiasco as it has revealed him to be a dangerous delusional crank. THis video simply shows this in spades.

[SamYeager]

19. You had me with your Title line

You lost me with your self Godwined graphic.

[ffr]

20. Yeah.Yeah. Yeah. Yawn. People said the same thing of...nevermind.

[matt819]

22. I just finished reading a book about the Nazi movement in the US in the 1930s

I know that comparisons to Nazis are (sorry for this one) verboten. They may be accurate, but they are a tad facile, and you then have to deal with the whole genocide thing.

That said, I think it's fair to refer to Nazis when you're talking about actual Nazis. In this respect, I'm just about finished with a bokk call The Swastika Nation, about the German-American Bund in the 1930s. The group fell apart after some criminal indictments against the leadership - for financial improprieties rather than a vile world view - and then was further eradicated with the start of WWII. For about 5 years, though, they had a vocal following among German-Americans and a handful of others - tools, mainly - and managed to hold a fairly large rally at Madison Square Garden in, I think it was 1939.

The point in raising this is that despite the hypen - German-American - these were Americans. But the views they espoused were 110% aligned with those of the Nazi government, and, more relevant to this discussion, consistent with everything the tea party claims to support. (I say claims to support, but I'm not really sure their views are real. Sure, they are vile human beings, and they are certainly contemptuous of those of us in the reality-based community, but in the end they are nothing more than useful tools for the extreme right corporatocracy.) In short, the comparisons between the American Nazi sympathizers of the 1930s and the tea party movement of today go far beyond those noted in the graphic above.

[zazen]

28. great point--like 1930s American fascist party

What on earth is wrong with comparing them to that?

Sometimes I think there's a "false equivalency" meme being applied to the never-compare-them-to-Hitler rule. Sure, let's not call someone a genocidal maniac until they're really a genocidal maniac, but if there are historical comparisons to be made with how fascism takes over a country, we prevent a very important discussion if we're too afraid of sounding "like them."

Maybe talking about the rise of fascism in Italy would be better? Or in Spain? I'm embarrassed to say I don't know those histories well at all, but I've heard about the Weimar Republic and Hitler's rise all my life, which is why I guess it comes to mind.

One could also talk about the end of the Roman Republic and move into Empire, but it's not like the Republic was some bastion of non-violent, social justice to emulate in the first place. So 20th c examples seem most relevant to me.

[Initech]

24. Ted Cruz is dangerous and insane.

[Bucky]

25. That's just stupid

He's an obstructionist asshat. He's not Hitler.

You lost all your Godwin points.

[stillcool]

26. egads...

Ted Cruz is Ted Cruz, and he is where he is because someone(s) put him there.

[Southside]

27. Harvard Law, genius, minority and grassroots activist

He is the Tea Party answer to Barak Obama. He is scary and knows the only thing standing in his way is a GOP that would rather select a guy like Romney or Jeb Bush.

Have to give the Tea Party credit they have stolen everything from the Liberal community organizer play book and added billion dollar investors and think tanks.

Hope Hillary is ready for this. This shutdown really makes Ted Cruz the outsider. Fox News will have to pick a side in this fight between the Tea Party and the GOP. Rush has already chosen Ted Cruz.

[snagglepuss]

33. Is that an airbrushed photo of Hitler?