Republicans, Democrats Are Communists! by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #134
September 7, 2009 Mike Gold 1 Comment
Glenn Beck got me thinking.
Amazing, isn’t it? America’s leading nincompoop got me thinking. Admittedly, this happened once before: many years ago I met Beck at a party at The Point’s Mike Raub house; both were working for Cox Radio at the time. I thought he was a living vacuum, and when Fox News picked up his teevee show I was convinced they did so just to take some heat off of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.
Be this as it may, I was watching Beck’s tour of Rockefeller Plaza last week. He was revealing the “secret” Communist and Fascist symbolism imbedded in the architecture. It was a secret to those who hadn’t studied… you know… history. Beck was parroting the current agit-prop du jure: that Nazism and Communism are one and the same, and that Obama is either one or both, depending upon your proficiency in math.
OK. We don’t need to prove liars, morons and imbeciles dominate the Republican Party – they speak loudly and clearly to that very point each and every day. So I’m not going to revisit that turf. Instead, I’m going to expand upon that point.
The Right says Nazism is Communist because the official name of the Nazi Party was “the National Socialist German Worker’s Party.” Emphasis mine. Communism is Socialism, and Nazism is Fascism, ergo, Socialism equals Fascism.
Let’s role with that for a minute.
The official name of the nation of China – I sometimes refer to it as Red China, just to piss a handful of old Lefties off – is the “Democratic People’s Republic of China.”
The official name of the nation of North Korea is the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
Both are well-known to be Communist nations. There’s no dispute about that, and both are quite proud of it. Swell; China owns most of the U.S. national debt so we can debate the meaning of the word “Communist,” but I will hold that for the nonce.
Democrats are Communists. Ask any of the most vocal Republican spokespeople: Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck. We already know that argument. But let’s take a look two words downstream.
Republic. The Democratic People’s Republic of China. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
If the Democrats are Fascists by virtue of the Nazi Party’s name, then logic – if we were to depower the term for this argument – dictates that Republicans are Communists.
Further proof: where did the Bush / Cheney administration get all that money to invade Iraq?
Mike Gold performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking bizarro music and blather show starts up Sundays at 7:00 PM Eastern on www.getthepointradio.com, replayed the following Thursdays at 10:00 PM Eastern. Likewise, his Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mind rants pop up every on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday exclusively at www.getthepointradio.com. The regular Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mind rants continue every Monday and Friday on The Point podcasts, available right here at www.michaeldavisworld.com, as well as atwww.comicmix.com, www.getthepointradio.com, www.zzcomics.com, and www.ravenwolfstudios.com. You can subscribe to The Point podcasts at iTunes by searching under “The Point Radio.”
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Marc Alan Fishman
September 7, 2009 - 9:20 am
Mike Gold… The Gold Standard… Standard Oil… Oil and Vinegar Dressing on an Italian Sub… Submarine Sandwich… Witch….
Gasp.
Mike Gold is a Witch! A communist witch!
Or just as you said, the right wing nut bags like to grasp for straws wherever they can right now.
Wait… right wing… wings… buffalo wings… I’m hungry.
ed zarger
September 7, 2009 - 9:06 pm
You’ll pay for that one.
With the buffalo wings, come the buffalo bills.
Right wing. Left wing.
It’s all just a difference of a pinion.
Steve Atkins
September 8, 2009 - 12:32 pm
I wasn’t ware that ANYONE ever asks Ann Coulter ANYTHING.
She seems to feel cheated of her time the spotlight.
Ann, they cut your role from THE DARK CRYSTAL. Deal with it.
Steve
MOTU
September 8, 2009 - 2:45 pm
If I was a SEX ADDICT and had not had SEX IN a DECADE I would rather have SEX with tree bark than Ann Coulter.
This has nothing to do with anything except…well it has nothing to do with anything.
R. Maheras
September 8, 2009 - 3:09 pm
Mike, that’s Beckian logic. The term “republic” was coined to mean a form of government that has no monarch, but the forms of government can vary widely. That’s why you have situations, as in Korea, where the communist north is known as “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” while the capitalist south is known simply as the “Republic of Korea.”
And country names are meaningless anyway, because “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” is anything but democratic.
But I think you already knew that.
😉
Rick Oliver
September 10, 2009 - 6:00 pm
Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most admired and famous Republican ever (with the possible exception, of course, of Ronald Reagan). Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. Thomas Jefferson was opposed to outlawing slavery in new states admitted to the union. Thomas Jefferson was opposed to the establishment of a standing army. Thomas Jefferson thought that each generation should have a new constitution. Thomas Jefferson was opposed to the judicial branch of the federal government, particularly the Supreme Court. Thomas Jefferson was opposed to industrialization. Thomas Jefferson died bankrupt.
Therefore, Republicans are in favor of slavery, are opposed to a permanent, static constitution, disagree with the fundamental separation of powers in our constitution, don’t think we should spend federal money on defense, are opposed to modern industry, and can’t run a business.
Ever wonder how many “Jeffersonian” Republicans have actually read anything by or about Thomas Jefferson?
Alan Coil
September 10, 2009 - 6:46 pm
I thought the Republican Party started around the time of the Civil War. Or maybe that was just the “modern” Republican Party, the one that wants us to go back to the Stone Age.
Rick Oliver
September 11, 2009 - 8:15 am
Yeah, the modern Republican party actually started as an abolitionist party. Ironically, Lincoln was viewed as the “moderate” candidate who did NOT favor unilateral abolition of slavery and would therefore hopefully not alienate the South. But the party of Jefferson and Madison was also called the Republican party. Many current Republicans view Jefferson as the icon of Republican ideals — as long, of course, as they can cherry-pick his beliefs and limit the gospel to his views on limited government.
In the ideal Jefferson world (and make no mistake about it, Jefferson was an idealist), the country would be populated entirely by white gentelman farmers who all cooperate with each other freely because it’s the civil thing to do.