By Mr. Curmudgeon
The mainstream media's underwear was in a knot over a Tea Party billboard in Mason City, Iowa, containing the images of Adolf Hitler, Barrack Obama and Vladimir Lenin. “Radical Leaders Prey on the Fearful & Naïve,” reads the billboard.
“I think comparing a president of the United States to totalitarian dictators responsible for mass murder is appalling,” said Democratic National Committee Executive Director Jen O'Malley Dillon in an e-mail to her party's financial supporters. “I think calling Barack Obama a socialist is nonsensical. But I don't think any of this is surprising.”
The billboard has since been removed.
The question: “Is comparing this president of the United States to totalitarian dictators responsible for mass murder appalling?”
What do all three men - Hitler, Obama and Lenin - have in common (besides each man's peculiar brand of socialism)? All three came to power during periods of crisis - political and economic. All three men offered salvation, and that salvation meant increasing government power at the expense of individual liberty.
It's unlikely most of their supporters were in favor of gulags or death camps. They just wanted someone to make their lives better and were willing to give these leaders "transformative" power. The reason? Because desperate people can be counted on to forget history's most repetitive lesson: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Like the sign said, “Radical Leaders Prey on the Fearful and Naïve.”
The signpost was meant to serve as a warning along America's superhighway to serfdom. That was what most offended Democrats and apologetic Beltway Republicans.
The media plastered photos of the billboard all over the newspapers and Internet to get a jump on distracting from the sign's intended Tea Party message: stop big government incumbents in the elections of 2010 and 2012...before big government politicians stop you.
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