Just thought of a strange parallel re: Reagan

[Jester Messiah]

It just struck me that the conservatives' love of Reagan bears an uncanny resemblance to the cult of Kim Il-Sung. They worship a dead politician and credit him with a bunch of stuff he never did, while entirely overlooking the idiotic destructive path upon which he set the nation.

[MinneapolisMatt]

Quite spot-on.

And creepy.

[MinneapolisMatt]

1. Quite spot-on.

And creepy.

[Jester Messiah]

6. Speaking of creepy, check this out (if you dare)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2670177/posts
Link goes to creepy cultish "Reagan Tribute Song" lyrics. Sorry for the freep link but I'm not going to post this garbage directly on DU. Got a cold shiver reading it... it really could have come from KCNA.

[LeftinOH]

2. However -Reagan's children aren't following his footsteps (at all)..

Reagan's own namesake, the level-headed Ron Jr., is one of us.

[Jester Messiah]

3. True. But there's the whole Bush Dynasty thing to balance that out. [nt]

[david13]

4. Yes. I like that. Kind of a mass hypnosis, or mass myopia. dc

[deutsey]

5. I've thought the same thing

I don't think conservatives really hate totalitarian regimes around cults of personality...they envy them and see them as competition.

[deutsey]

7. In fact, I coined the word "Bushevik" to make just that point after the 2000 election theft

Seriously. I wrote a brief satirical series on Buzzflash in early 2001 in which I portrayed Bush and his Bushevik cronies taking over America, renaming Washington DC "Reagangrad", hoisting their flag (that was blue for the color of the blood with a banana and a dollar sign in the corner) over the Capitol, etc.

To my knowledge, I'm the one who invented that word. This is from Buzzflash on January 31, 2001. There's a link to my article in the lower righthand corner, but it doesn't take you to the article, unfortunately. I think I printed most of the things I wrote. I hope so, because they're mostly down the memoryhole now.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010202063500/http://buzzflash.com/