Reply #68: Liberals got demonized--and it is the same tactic

[Hekate]

"I posted once that liberals were becoming the RW scapegoat like
the Jews were in Nazi Germany. I got really flamed for it but it
doesn't make my observation any less true. The propaganda war on
liberals is certainly working like the propaganda war on Jews
worked in the Third Reich."

When did "liberal" and "feminist" become dirty words? I think it was a tactic virtually invented by Newt Gingrich, complete with "vocabulary list" handed out to RW operatives. Feminists, liberals, and anybody who holds progressive ideas has been pretty much smeared. And yeah, it's the same tactic used to make "Jew" a dirty word. I'm not surprised you got flamed -- I shocked the heck out of my husband when I made the that observation a year or two ago, but I wouldn't back down. It really is the old story of "first they came for the gypsies" tarted up for our modern times.

Hekate

"But why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many,
what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you
suppose? Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my
beautiful mind on something like that?" ~Barbara Bush

"I guess the 'nation's grandma' isn't the grandma of those her son sends into harm's way." ~Hekate

ARLINGTON WEST, SANTA BARBARA CALIF.
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