There's a youtube clip on the Drudge Report, it's about 20 seconds long and features Barack Obama talking about a "civilian security force". The quote is taken out of context, in the longer version it's his standard stump speech talking about bringing back the peace corps, volunteerism to earn money for college etc. Stuff I absolutely agree with.
What scares me is the youtube response to this 20 second clip and the words 'civilian security force.' Apparently, those words are all it takes for Barack Obama to make the leap from marxist/communist to Hitler loving fascist.
http://www.youtube.com/...
"Sounds like the SS to me," said one.
"Yes, I noticed how he never talks about freedom, he is the new Hitler." said another.
I responded to a few of these people, saying how I was concerned about the level of discourse and tried where I could to explain Barack Obama's positions as I understood them. That's when I got accused of being part of Senator Obama's PSYOP squad...and I don't think the guy was joking.
I am 31 years old. Old enough to sort of remember liking Reagan when I saw him on the TV. Old enough to remember being swayed to conservative politics by my Dad, and old enough to remember when I broke away after Dad died, when I started thinking for myself, you know, reading books instead of listening to Talk Radio.
Now, here I sit, accused of being part of some grand marxicommufascist conspiracy.
I'm asking for a little perspective from any of the older DailyKos members. Those who might remember what it was like when Joe McCarthy was running around or what it was like when Kennedy was assassinated. Did you feel like nothing would be right again ever? Is what's happening now as bad or worse as it was back then? I would think that what's happening now couldn't possibly be as bad, I mean, Kent State, the National Guard actually killing American student protesters, terrible. But, then I watch this tiny piece of video and see that it's been viewed 300,000 times and the bile rises up in my throat because these people are making the leap to HITLER!
No concern trolling here, I just want to hear from someone older and wiser than me--an easy feat, I'm not the smartest guy.
Thanks,
Archie