Tea Bag Movement: Harbinger of Fascism? 
Analyze what was said at the group's recent convention where Sarah Palin regaled her audience along with the series of preceding rallies cheer led by Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and others and a disturbing trend surfaces.
These Teabaggers hold some discomforting points in common with the Brownshirts of Germany's pre-Third Reich period. Many from the progressive movement in Germany during that period laughed off the appearance of "a funny looking little man with a mustache" along with those "kooky guys in the Brownshirts" as one conclusion was clear to them.
This strange breed of crude malcontents could not hope to prevail in a land of rich culture such as Germany. This was, after all, the nation of Goethe, Bismarck, Bach, Beethoven, Schiller. Yes, Wagner held some of those same bigoted views of Hitler and the Brownshirts, but that was seen by many as a tragic aberration of a great composer and he had a genius that these presumed misfits did not.
The only thing to be thankful about concerning the rabble rousing, anti-immigrant bashing speech by demagogic former Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado as he preceded Palin's Obama denouncing oration was that he revealed what he was all about along with the hate hungry audience that cheered his comments with enthusiasm.
Note also the practice of Tancredo and others to refer to the current chief executive as Barack Hussein Obama. The trick is to raise the voice just a tad and emphasize that middle name "Hussein" a little more strongly than his first and last names.
Just what do you suppose that practice connotes? Can it represent the bigoted concept that Obama is a Muslim or close to it and that group allegedly is dominated by terrorists?
Just what was behind demagogic Rudy Guiliani's belittling reference to Obama as a "community organizer" at the Republican Party's hate fest St. Paul convention of 2008? Remember how the delegates cooperated and laughed derisively?
What did Obama's community organizing represent? Was it not an effort to assist impoverished African Americans of Chicago rise economically? Do you suppose for one instant that the sharply ridiculing Guiliani and his kindred spirit listeners did not know this?
For those of you who consider the Tea Bag Movement a passing fad, reflect on the words expressed during the Great Depression thirties by Louisiana's Huey Long, one America's most perceptive political figures.
Long disagreed that America was ripe for Communism. The politician known as The Kingfish added that he thought America, if it did go down a totalitarian path, would be more likely to embrace Fascism.
He then concluded with the following words:
"Only it would not be called Fascism. It would be called Americanism."
Should those words be construed as a warning from the wise?
KEYWORDS: Tea Bag Movement, Tom Tancredo, Rudy Guiliani, Huey Long
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