So, in that big Freedomworks protest yesterday I saw some majorly disturbing signs. Protesting the government's cool. Throwing around racist slurs, historically inaccurate comparisons (Hitler was a fascist, not a Communist; that's why he threw Communists in concentration camps, people.), and using "socialist" as an insult (
quite a few socialists were actually pretty cool people*) are not cool, but hey, freedom of speech.
Some signs seemed to support an
armed revolution. That's just insane.
Armed revolution. You know what kind of people like armed revolutions against democratically elected governments? Fascists and Marxists. Yeah. And since many of the protesters seemed to be pretty vehemently opposed to the latter . . . yes, I'm probably assuming too much. But some people seem to be getting dangerously close to the far right, and that terrifies me.
So, sorry for the rant, but . . . yikes.
* and those are just the
Americans. And if we're counting social democrats as socialists, the list gets even bigger.