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Chuckles

Jon Stewart’s ‘Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear’ was a wasted opportunity for liberals

By Marc Tracy|November 2, 2010 1:00 PM|51comments
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Jon Stewart speaks during the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.” (Kris Connor/Getty Images)

I am an Earthling
So we probably have other things in common too.
—Sign seen on the National Mall last weekend.

“Revolutionaries-for-a-weekend should never get hangovers,” wrote Norman Mailer in Armies of the Night. No doubt a few over-eager attendees at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Saturday rally on the National Mall in Washington conceived of themselves as latter-day Pentagon-levitators—the anti-Vietnam War activists of Mailer’s armies—much as one over-eager columnist conceived of herself and her generation (which is to say, my generation) as going down to our very own Yasgur’s Farm. But I am here to tell you that the operative word in the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” was “and/or.” The event could have been whatever you wanted it to be, which meant that it was nothing at all. It’s not exactly what a Mall rally the weekend before the midterms called for.

At least Mailer’s point about the hangover remained applicable. After a too-long trip for coffee—nobody, not the coffee shops or the Metro Authority (which hauled a record-for-a-Saturday 825,437 passengers) or the organizers themselves guessed the event would draw remotely so many people—a few of us took the bus south down 11th Street toward the Mall. One imagines L’Enfant designed the city for just these sorts of days: a bright, warm fall afternoon, when the denizens of the jagged, swampy hills of the north would pour into the sunken, flat expanse of the Mall, with its undeniable symmetry and open access, and engage in some imagined future ritual of democracy.

But the rush of people met a dam just north of the Mall, where an hourglass effect and an ill-placed row of Porta-Potties made things unpleasantly impenetrable. The next 45 minutes were a slow slog eastward toward the Capitol through a three-dimensional, fluid wall of people, emerging behind the stage, where people with press passes and people who knew people with press passes mingled in an almost pastoral setting with passersby and Human Rights Campaign volunteers.

It was here that the actor Sam Waterston, driving past, took a sneak picture of me.

I knew that Waterston had already spoken not because I could hear him—the audio was truly terrible, which no doubt helped cause the mass exodus that began well before the event was through—but because I could make out his show’s trademark chung-chung sound, which bracketed what I now know was Waterston’s stentorian, deadpan reading of a Colbert-penned ode to fear. (“Did you hear that? No? You’re probably going deaf./ It’s your kids back home cooking up some crystal meth.”) But I admit I was surprised when Waterston, sitting alone in the back of a black Town Car that inched away from behind the stage, snapped the picture of me—me in my corduroy sport coat, earnestly striving to look professional on the theory that maybe there would actually be something to cover—backed by the rest of the crowd. He had a giddy, grandfatherly smile on his face, which confirmed my sense that I was at the rally less to stand for a certain set of principles (there was no set of principles) or to be entertained (as I said, you couldn’t hear a thing), but to be an extra in the cast of exactly the sort of non-event alchemized by warm, young bodies and media hype into Great American Spectacle—exactly the sort of non-event, in other words, that Jon Stewart, in his more pious moods, gets a kick out of shaking his head at with a fake non-grin on his face.

Having a grandfatherly television actor appropriate my youthful mojo for his iPhone collection was merely the most focused part of the spectacle, which tried to package itself as irony but was actually something much more depressing and wrong. The rallygoers’ signs—like that from the above-mentioned Earthling—seemed more dedicated to showing off the makers’ wit than anything else. And the hosts’ fundamental message, too—despite Stewart’s celebrated appeal to media decency toward the event’s end—was one of irony made impotent by context: that the best way to beat back the extremists storming the gates of the mainstream is to laugh at them. Stewart had up to 250,000 people watching him, depending on the estimate. But, as Stalin said of the pope, how many divisions has he got?

This is the back of my sign.

While the rally’s opportunity cost was arguably great—a liberal could plausibly see it as a gigantic missed chance—it was basically a poorly run party that confirmed Stewart’s downward trajectory from exciting comedian to, at times, important political spokesperson to, now, the second and no doubt lesser coming of Al Franken. Stewart’s somber, deeply boring speech, which lectured the press that it ought to “hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen,” was so trite and bland that it cannot be taken seriously even by not-serious people. It was as though Stewart were determined to be for the mushy middle what Colbert is for the Fox News right: a parody. And even this character was undercut every step of the way by Stewart’s need to be the comedian, the better to excuse himself for not taking a stronger stand. “The press is our immune system,” he declared. “If we overreact to everything we actually get sicker, and perhaps eczema.” Chuckles.

When I first heard that Jon Stewart was going to hold a rally in favor of moderation, I smelled a rat. Moderation is neither good nor bad: Certain people are right about things, and certain other people are wrong about those things, and how moderate they are has zero bearing on how right or wrong they are. Moreover, Stewart’s moderation happens to be particularly false and damaging, because, say what you will about the demerits of the fringe left and the fringe right, the fringe left is, well, on the fringe, while the fringe right is about to unseat the majority leader of the Senate, win several other Senate and House races, collect hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and book royalties and speaking fees, and have a big impact on the selection of the Republican Party’s standard-bearer for 2012 and what he or she will stand for.

Jon Stewart speaks at least in part as a man with a job dependent on ratings. He is paid to get high ratings by a corporation. Stewart’s a smart guy, and so his corporate interests would naturally make him afraid of actual liberalism—the perfect explanation for his adoption of anti-liberal moderation. Those ratings, meanwhile, are about to face their greatest threat yet, as the one talk-show host with similarly strong cred with the young’uns, Conan O’Brien, has a new show that just happens to start at the same time as Stewart’s and just happens to debut next Monday. And, hey, didn’t Stewart’s crew just publish a new book?

I was upset that so much of my generational cohort failed to see this, that so many would even be able to have a good time. I felt betrayed. I became obsessed; one late night, I found myself adapting Allen Ginsberg’s poem “America” and emailing a few friends:

Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Jon Stewart?
I’m obsessed by Jon Stewart.
I watch him every day.
His show stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.
I watch it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
It’s always telling me about responsibility.
Everybody’s serious but me.

As it turns out, I was much more serious than the event demanded. Stewart will never have the influence of Ginsberg’s totem of irresistible and rotten Americana: midcentury Time magazine.

Everything will probably be OK.

Incidentally, if you’ve read David Brooks, you’ll know that my generation’s Woodstock will be not this but some networking get-together. Whatever this was, though, I arrived on Friday night via Greenbelt, Md., near where Interstate 95 dead-ends into the Capitol Beltway. The buses from New York to downtown D.C. had sold out over a week before, no doubt because of the rally; mine stopped first in Baltimore and then deposited me and about a dozen others, many of whom, I gathered, were headed for a homecoming weekend of tailgating in College Park (Maryland would crush Wake Forest, 62-14), at a half-empty parking lot abutted by an office park and the terminus of the Washington Metro’s Green Line.

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Marc Tracy edits Tablet Magazine’s daily blog, The Scroll. He tweets @marcatracy.
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  • Steven Rosenberg

    Did you miss the point? Taking a partisan tone would have made him a hypocrite. His only point was less shouting, more listening, and don;t trust corporate news.

  • Noah Wolfe

    I want to second what Steven said. The focus of Stewart’s speech was that people have different political points of view yet still work together everyday everywhere but in Washington. To take a partisan tone at the rally would have undermined his intention.

  • David

    Steve and Noah,

    I think you both miss the point. Marc isn’t about moderation or bipartisanship. To him, politics is a zero-sum game. If the Dems win I win, if the Nazis’, no I mean if the Republicans win, then I lose. Why do you think Marc was so disappointed with the rally. Of course it had its liberal overtones b/c Stewart is a liberal through and through. And unless you are blind (I was there and saw the type of people that came to the rally) you would know this rally was liberal love fest where it was a gathering of the sane liberals against the crazy conservatives. But what annoyed Marc is seems was Stewart’s speech at the end where he humanized the other side. You seee, Stewart’s closing speech does not fit into Marc’s worldview where anyone to the right of him is a racist crypto-Nazi.

  • Marc R

    I think Marc T got the point, he just thinks it’s pointless. What has “sanity” in the form of moderation ever really accomplished.

    As Mr. Lyme said in The Third Man, Europe had hundreds of years of war and produced the Renaissance. Switzerland has had hundreds of years of peace and has produced a cuckoo clock.

  • Carl

    J street probably came to see the Jew Baiter Yusaf Isalm (Cat Stevens) who was also invited to the rally.

  • riain george

    Republican Jews make me ill & ashamed of their existence!

  • M Lite

    I think the point was that there wasn’t really necessarily a point. For the last two years Fox (with the “liberal” media in tow) has been endlessly covering any gathering of more than a dozen Tea Partiers and proclaiming them the vox populi. The big joke of this rally was that you could bring out an even larger crowd with no truly coherent purpose except reasonableness. Of course, except for finger wagging like Marc’s, the media completely missed it, so I don’t know if it will have as much effect. It was fun though.

  • Mark

    “Stewart’s somber, deeply boring speech, which lectured the press that it ought to ‘hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen,’ was so trite and bland that it cannot be taken seriously even by not-serious people.”

    So we ought not to take Mr. Stewart’s statement at all seriously, Mr. Tracy, but we should value your above polemic with all the respect of the Torah?

    Son, on what do you base your rather intriguing postulate? And, secondly, what sort of weed had you been inhaling prior to and/or during the writing of this rather illogical piece?

    Lotta John P. Normanson in you, kid, and it’s not pretty.

  • eli

    riain george says:

    “Republican Jews make me ill & ashamed of their existence!”

    This sort of hatred is appalling.

    It is certainly not in the Jewish religious tradition – though the left seems to have created a new standard of political correctness, or maybe it is just the reappearance of Stalinism.

    Please remember that in the US Bill of Rights we are all guaranteed freedom of speech and association.

  • Rebecca C

    Great piece, Marc. Somebody had to rain on their parade. Congratulating yourself in witty ways for not being insane–which the vast majority of these ralliers would conflate with “not being Republican”–serves no other purpose than amuse one’s self and one’s friends. I like witty signs as much as the next person, but politics takes more grit than wit (see, I like this stuff too :) It’s rarely a “feel-good” affair. I have lots of friends who went to this, and I don’t think less of them for it, but this was not some great moment of political responsibility. If you went to have a good time and you had a good time, that’s swell, but this was for kicks.

  • Sara

    Disappointing review, Marc. Of course, you went to cover the rally hoping to be disappointed. I, on the other hand, went to the Rally because the polarization of Americans makes me fear for my children’s future.
    I met people from all over the country who felt the same way. And we were all rabid Democrats.

    Stewart’s closing remarks about the incendiary nature of 24/7 cable news were magnificent. You probably did not hear it first hand as you left for the museum.

    And nobody left early where I was sitting……

  • Joseph Rones

    Marketing, marketing, marketing. The liberal/progressive movement has not discovered the catchy phrases that get the masses on their side. The arguments are too long and complicated. Second, the Obama administration has been unsuccessful in marketing its legislative successes. And, since it failed to get the “public option” enacted, the health care legislation will cost more. Hopefully, they’ll make some hay in the next year and a half. Otherwise, its back to the barbarians.

  • David

    riain george

    I guess sanity and moderation and tolerance are things you don’t believe in. Congratulation on proving my point. Libs like yourself are the least tolerant people out there.

  • http://www.stephenhsegal.com Stephen Segal

    Hi. I’m the Earthling. Thanks for noticing! I’m sorry you thought I was just trying to be witty. In fact, I was looking to state, as clearly as possible, my sincere belief that understanding the humanity of other people — a practice that seems to be simple yet surprisingly hard — is good for ourselves, for them, and for the overall us.

  • Gilbert klein

    I just saw this magazine. I am Jewish and conservative. I hope this in not a partisan publication. If so, why such a biased main article. I find Jon Stewart extremely stupid and uninformed. Someone with deep issues relating to sociopathological behavior and narcissism. I would welcome something professional, jornalistic, inteligent. Should such an important topic receive a liberal back-room-discussion approach? Should I look forward to come back to tablemag.com or move on? (.org, put intended…)

    Thanks

  • Maayan

    I was really looking forward to seeing coverage of the rally – but I was dissapointed like Marc. I didn’t think it would be just a party, with a weak speach to end it off, and it’s too bad that it was. If Stewart is just a comedian, sitting abouve the fray and lecturing the ‘bad’ pundits while poking fun at the actual content of America’s problems, he should stay in his studio. If he’s planning and producing mass rallies he needs to first, take himself more seriously, and second, connect to all these people with SOMETHING more than sanctimony, self-congratulation, jokes, and a whiney “why can’t we all get along”.
    It’s a wierd position he put himself in: he want to take a stand, but he wants to cover his ass. He wants to be funny, but also wants to be influential. Wants to get the democratic vote out, but be completely bipartisan in public. Obviously this hedginess (or as Marc’s stronger term, hypocricy) actually rings hollow. Stewart, and people in my age group (cynical, liberal-ish, turtle-like, apolitical, post-whatever) need to remember that the political sphere is still very important – and not be afraid to articulate why, in which direction, and how we’ll make it happen.

  • M. Brukhes

    I was at the rally and I’m glad I attended. What I think Marc Tracy fails to appreciate is the fact that the rally was really two events: as a “meta-textual post-modern media event,” it was conceived by television performers to be seen on television; we were the backdrop to a 3-hour long version of their nightly programs, amplified by a magnitude of 200. If all you came for was Stewart and Colbert’s jokes, you really would have been better off staying at home and watching it on TV. But at the same time, on the audience’s level, it was a great medieval pageant, and its theme was Hope Conquers Fear. That theme, incidentally, is the great narrative of American politics. If you fail to appreciate the multiplicity of the event–if you come only to see your own expectations satisfied–you missed the point completely.

  • Randall Mecham

    I went to the rally and I knew going in that Stewart was not going to host an effective political event – that would threaten his ratings. So, my expectations were more “let’s enjoy a day on the Mall, and let Stewart use us for his ratings.” Nonetheless, I did expect a decent program – after all , it was only 2 1/2 hours. But – - It was Boring. Fun? Not so much. Humor? Sometimes, but rare. Entertainers? Third tier. Rally attendees? Some creative signs. Many folks appeared pretty bored. Logistics? Seen better at much-less-well-funded rallies on the Mall. Overall – - Stewart and Colbert benefitted more from this than did those attending or, for that matter, than did US politics generally.

  • Alexander Diamond

    I nominate Marc Tracy for the Drivel Of The Year Award. Rarely do I see so many words strung together signifying nothing.

  • http://www.poeticlicenseinc.net arlyn miller

    Less is more??? I want to enter dialogues inspired by the internet and its blog/article/essay potential, but can’t seem to make it past the stream of consciousness lack of editing. As I a poet, I’m an advocate of the creed, “best words, best order.” I think the meaning and message too often get lost in the verbiage, as was the case for me with Marc’s piece.

  • M Lite

    The pundits seem to agree that the President has a “communications problem” and that there is a lot of misinformation; for example people think that taxes have gone up when in fact most working Americans received tax cuts as part of the stimulus (but didn’t notice because it was given paycheck by paycheck to increase spending power rather than in one lump sum). Maybe if the “traditional” media hadn’t spent the last two years so terrified of being called “liberal” that they parroted any insanity Fox News could concoct, hadn’t spent the last year and a half making out out the 20% Tea Party as the as the “voice of the people,” and spent a few hours of the precious 24-hour news cycle just reporting on President Obama’s dozens of speeches, town hall meetings, radio address and those of his administration, then he wouldn’t seem so elitist and out of touch. Maybe, if instead of focusing minute-by-minute on the legislative wrangling over healthcare, instead of giving credence to “death panels” and “NAZI SOCIALISM!!! and birth certificates, they had reported what sane analysts, the CBO, and Democrats were saying about healthcare, financial reform, and unfortunate but necessary bailouts and stimulus…maybe then the people who actually watch cable news would have a more fair and balanced perception. We don’t need an MSNBC Liberal alternative, but just straight reporting that doesn’t require a point-counterpoint for statements of fact (such as on the tax cut issue).

    Really, this was the main message that Stewart chose to deliver to the crowd, and obviously the media doesn’t want to hear it. The “conservative” media refuses to report anything reflecting positively on the President, and the rest of the media is dancing to it’s tune. Absent a giant loudspeaker reaching all Americans, is this a failure to communicate by the President, or a failure of the Third Estate to actually report what matters, and for treating every issue as if it has two valid sides?

  • A.L. Bell

    I went to the rally, and I think it was a lot of fun just to be part of a giant performance/conceptual art piece showing the hate mongers that we’re tired of them being hate mongers. Did it work? Probably not, but at least we said something.

  • HWB

    I was also at the “rally” and agree that it could have been something more. Stewart stayed away from pulling punches, he avoided his typical Jewish references, and he refused to attack Fox News for fear of sound-bites. But let’s not be overly cynical.

    First of all, most people could hear fine. More people turned out than expected and the sound was not adequate to reach the extra people.

    Second, even if the rally wasn’t outstanding, it was still a “feel-good event” for those in attendance.

    Third, it may be too soon to claim that the rally didn’t achieve anything. Jon Stewart is not a political figure- just a media figure who is frustrated with the extreme political rhetoric which is polarizing our system at a time when we truly can’t afford bickering. The US is engaged in two wars, a huge economic crisis, and decreasing global power. Our candidates are a retired mailman, prostitutes, witches, and businessmen without legislative experience. The political rhetoric has also spiraled out of control.

    Stewart tried to raise awareness of this issue and bring the focus back to placating folks in the middle. His efforts were too late to impact the 2010 elections, but by assembling so large a crowd and taking the media focus off of the Tea Party for a few days, he highlighted a constituency which politicians in the soon-to-begin 2012 elections can now appeal to. He created facts on the ground. It is the job of the 2012 candidates to gain favor in the eyes of people like me who made the trek to Washington and stood on the mall for hours listening to a comedian speak more sensibly then our politicians.

  • Dorothy Wachsstock

    Democrat Jews make me sick and ashamed of their inability to learn as the years have gone by. They put themselves in the position of when they grew up poor..but poor today is rich compared to other countrys.

    I saw a new apt house apartment on NY 1 or some other station in New York for people on Welfare, and wish I could have had that place when we were poor. Now we give televisions, dishwasher, w/d to people on welfare plus 3 meals a day for their children and food stamps and if they are not working. they get 99 weeks of unemployment and earning income under a certain amount.

    I am for helping the disabled, elderly and those that really try to work but 99 weeks of unemployment and we work and get taxed..why work?

    I didn’t watch the rally..turned it on and Stewart was screaming and that was enough for me…it was only a large free comedic non comedy rally instead of holding our government to task for spending so much money that our children will have to pay off.

    Liberal is no longer a decent word..for those who make comments that he did not make Jewish remarks..having never watched his program…glad he didn’t shame us conservative Jews more than elected Jews have done in the democrat party with the young Elmer Gantry (Pres. obama) running around the country and making speeches that are not true.

    No honest reporters around anymore to call him on it. If the tea party doesn’t wake up the republicans now..they will disappear like the Twig party. Last chance, guys. Give us back our country..do not tell us what to eat, when to wear a sweater, use certain dangerous bulbs and take back those small toilets that have to be flushed more than the old ones or we will flush you all down the drain.

    Let’s hear it for the new America returning to values and common sense.

  • http://www.spencer-school.com Jack Nusan Porter

    First, the essay was way too long for an electronic media; second, it had too many insider illusions to fights I know nothing about; and third, its cynical tone will lead nowhere, man, except to more cyncism.

    My son went to it and had a great time. True, I was on those very marches in the 60s to Washington and the Pentagon, etc. Yes, we were more “ideological” then–maybe more focused; more angry at the war, poverty and racism plus we encountered as well police brutality.

    Still, for my son’s and my daughter’s generation this was it. Could it have been better. Yea. Should you have had Howard Zinn, Abby Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Lee Weiner, and the Chicago 8 there–yea but they’re all dead except Lee.

    You need your own leaders, young people, and your own way. I was proud of my son and at least parts of his generation of Xers (he’s 27), very proud. we had to stand up and oppose the Boehners, Hannitys, the Palins and Becks and Rands, et al and we did and we out drew them 4 to 1.

    Less cynacism, Chuckles, please.

    Jack Nusan Porter, Newton, Mass.

  • http://slmgoldberg.blogspot.com SLM Goldberg

    While I don’t agree with Tracy’s politics, I do agree that the Rally was a lost opportunity to motivate an entire generation of Americans to truly invest themselves in the political process and the future of our nation.

    I do find it extremely funny, however, that Marc chose to rip apart Stewart’s brand of “hide behind my desk” humor while referring to the Tea Party as the group guilty of “mainstreaming malevolent silliness.”

    Didn’t you just spend an entire article ripping on Stewart for doing exactly that?

    Perhaps liberals need to stop blaming everyone else for their own faults, and take a good look in the mirror and ask themselves some hard questions like, “What motivates me, really?” When you can answer that, and the answer doesn’t involve blaming someone else for your problems or expecting someone else to come up with solutions for the quandaries we face as individuals and as a nation, perhaps then liberals will be able to go from a group of disorganized and disenchanted technocrats to an organized group of motivated individuals devoted to an actual cause.

    But that’s only my own conservative opinion.

  • OF8562

    Hes a comedian. Patting himself on the back is what he does for a living. Get over yourselves.

  • Ken Besig, Israel

    I find Jon Stewart to be tedious and repetitive. Much if not all of his supposed humor is confined to ridiculing people, practically always conservative politicians or religious leaders, and worse, much of his alleged humor is coarse, tasteless, and mean spirited. I am disturbed that some of his more grotesque and really sick attacks on Sarah Palin and her family actually result in laughter from his audience. I have to ask myself what sort of sick cretins get joy or pleasure from Stewart’s twisted ridicule a young girls out of wedlock pregnancy or a Down’s Syndrome child. As a Jew I am embarrassed by Jon Stewart and very concerned that the greater non Jewish American public might take Jon as some sort of poster child for Judaism, which I can assure you he definitely is not!

  • taylorco

    mr besig..most folk simply look at stewart for what he is, just another side show barker trying to get the passerbys to come inside to where the oddities perform.

  • Ken Besig, Israel

    Taylorco, good point!

  • Cynthia

    All you middle-income conservatives will not see your lot improved under the Republicans, who don’t need you anymore–they’ve got the 1% of the population who own 24% of the national income and still want more to support. Their agenda includes extending the Bush tax cuts to the wealthiest 2% of Americans. While the richest would get $61,000 in cuts from Obama, they will get $350,000 from the Republicans–good going teabaggers! And rich people don’t have to spend their money, so it does not provide a stimulus to the economy. Companies are buying back their stock to increase its value, instead of hiring people, when they can. Congratulations! While the President is trying to get India to buy American-made goods to increase employment here, the corporations continue to move overseas!

  • Rita

    I am grateful to Jon Stewart for making it at all possible for me to find some humor and hope and compassion in the current state of affairs. I think the rally was perfect. A breath of sanity. If only our political leaders would learn from it. The bigger quandry is how could the American electorate forget what got us into this mess and vote them all back in again? Even Jon Stewart can’t explain that

  • DCmenina

    thanks Marc for the most sane take I’ve seen so far on the rally. You hit the nail on the head – I’ve been deeply irritated/disappointed/annoyed with the rally since it was announced – moderation is not a useful goal if you care about social change. And I can’t believe what he said about voting – although I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since the man did decide to hold a rally the weekend before midterms with the message that basically being politically active is tres unhip.

  • http://sytoyou.blogspot.com Sy Weiss

    As a new reader of Tablet, and if Marc Tracy’s View of Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity, is A New Read on Jewish Life, his article “Chuckles” made me CRY. For me Jon Stewart’s summation was a call for unity, and not the Fear so many liberals now exhibit.

    If anyone from Tablet Magazine or mostly Marc Tracy wrote a review of Glenn Becks call from GOD, at his revival meeting, I would know the position of Tablet. Please any reader tell me the Tablet issue to find Beck’s BS.REVIEW !
    Sy, Fort Lee NJ

    Fear was liberals

    Marc Tracy |

  • Kevin MN

    I have to laugh every time someone equates the Republicans with the Nazis, as several above have done.

    The word NAZI is an abbreviation of the German word Nationalsozialismus, the German National Socialist Movement. A Marxist, or Leftist dogma. The brown-shirts were not right-wingers at all. They were closer to their Russian brethren, the Communists, than the Capitalistic Americans.

    So, if you’re going to resort to name-calling, at least get it right.

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