Gren, I hope you have realized by now that you and I appear to be on the same side. I was issuing a warning to the solid citizens among the Tea Party that appealing to emotion rather than reason by way of patriotism, Americanism, and the Constitution as if the other party and the leader of our country were on the opposite side will attract fringe elements such as racist and paramilitary groups. Such groups can lead to violent unrest which can lead to a government they did not intend at all. By the way, often smaller governments are run by tyrants (i.e. Hitler). Are not most Republicans and Democrats for America and Americans? Should we not respect spot on debatable issues and debate them rather than call names and be sarcastic to one another. America needs to come together and show a united front at this most treacherous of times for all humanity and the globe. Not only because of human destruction of the environment but as nature propels this planet toward ultimate destruction. Is mankind not worth saving? Shall we all go out "with a whimper"? Or stand to fight the destruction of man through science and discovery in a nation capable of doing just that.

The author of the letter

And here we go yet agian...someone stayed up late one night getting drunk off of FNC and decided that since republicans are not the majority then whoever is in charge at the moment is doing things comparable to Hitler's Germany............

Ex.

You are one. You refuse to look at the fear and the TONE from these people.

I didn't live in this area at that time, but yes, I did, in fact, attend several protest rallies. We marched and screamed "No more blood for oil" until our throats hurt. I had friends in Washington who protested after the infamous protested election...excuse me, installation, of George Bush. Did it do any good? Was it even covered by the media? No, only briefly. Our protests did not make good news -- too decent, I guess.

We all do what we can to try to effect change for the better. My only hope is that the name-calling and vicious death threats do not indicate what is to come. If so, I am sad at the example that is being set for our children.

EllaMental said: "Where were all these tea party folks during the previous 8 years when most of the deficit was being run up by a war based on false premises and tax cuts to the wealthy?"

Better yet, where were YOU when Bush was pulling that crap? Did you protest? Did you write any Congressman? Or, did you just scoff at your TV and hold out for election day? If the Left had coalesced to the level of the Tea Party, perhaps it would've had an impact on the Iraq War, led to the repeal of the Patriot Act, or sent a message to Congress to cut spending.

I witnessed the Tea Party movement come together by accident from the Ron Paul movement, which formed for the reasons you discussed and more. Movements like this don't spring up overnight. Unfortunately, the driving core principles behind the movement have been replaced by the political expedience of the establishment. In short, we tried. Did you?

I'm just saying that I find it a bit strange that when other government programs were instituted in the past by other Presidents, Roosevelt, Johnson, etc., there was not a groundswell of accusations of socialism or soft fascism. But, of course, they were White men.

Writein, it doesn't take a crystal ball to follow trends and extrapolate trajectory. Our vector is set.

Where were all these tea party folks during the previous 8 years when most of the deficit was being run up by a war based on false premises and tax cuts to the wealthy?

But I guess none of these people or their relatives use "socialist" government services such as unemployment payments, social security, medicare, interstate and state funded highways, public schools, and so on.

Observer.

Do You have a crystal ball?

Sadly, BSspotter, all indications are that history will prove you right.

Code & Writein, my argument never stated that America is completely socialized or that Obama is a full-blown socialist. My position has been that Obama is more of a corporatist (soft fascist) and many of the things most deem socialist are actually veiled corporate handouts. I contend that a Fabianistic tact is being used to slowly & nonviolently (yet forcefully) prepare America for its transition into a global governance scheme. I don't view Obama as being the beginning or the end of anything. He's just a figure head like the rest of them. Bush lobbed a softball to him, and he'll lob one to the next puppet.

You guys are young enough to be able to tell me I'm wrong someday. I sincerely hope history will prove me wrong.

Bs Spotter.

Your opinion is hard to shallow.

@BS:

Obama a Fabian? Well so far he's not on track to nationalize 1/5 of the economy as espoused by your Forbes Opinion link.

In fact it looks like he's managed to bring communism to a paltry 0.21% of America's Corporations and Business Assets

It seems he must be a super stealth supporter of Fabian strategy as he'd have to be President for 50 years in order to achieve his goal....

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/a...

She was determined to write this, no matter how her questions were answered here. I was warned. I'll know not to bother next time. I guess Barbara is ok with overthrows of government as long as they're nonviolent and gradual (Bush to Obama) and satisfy completely tangible, non-emotional ideals like "hope" & "change". Let's ignore the historical coupling of American Nationalism & Socialism as foreshadowing and focus on the looming threat of the TEA Parties which threaten the dryness of any idle tea crates.

She needs to have a better understanding of Fabian Socialism and soft fascism before getting too snug in her comfortable little paradigm with the loving, benevolent leader:
www.keynesatharvard.org/book/Keynesat...
www.forbes.com/2008/11/03/obama-fabia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_S...
www.docstoc.com/docs/20966043/A-Fabia...
http://books.google.com/books?id=8i2s...

I can assure you that an overwhelming majority of Tea Party supporters are in favor of overhaul, not a takeover. Nobody's buying your scare tactics, Barbara.

Please do not complain, by the way, next time a Hitler parallel is drawn to President Obama. Your ticket is already punched.