Allen West: ‘Radical’ Muslims waging ‘jihad’ in U.S. — by voting and obeying election laws (via Raw Story )
Former Republican Congressman Allen West (R-FL), who is currently employed as a Fox News contributor, on Thursday warned that Muslims were organizing to “destroy” the United States by exercising their legal right to vote. Fox News host Steve Doocy…
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Democracy is a threat to democracy.
It’s a shame evolution didn’t wire the brain to feel pain when it is this stupid.
this West sounds like #Putin-all lies.
The Stupid…it really really hurts…
sounds like more projection from the republicans.
Goddamn if he’s not channeling Joe McCarthy’s “I have list” scare.
Steve Israel’s comment should be modified and instead state:
That’s actually a cogent observation. All our country’s brands of right-wing bigotry are based on a narrative of a superior past when “our kind” had a monopoly on power. The ones who are honest about demanding a restored monopoly work in dark places where corporate media can be excused for ignoring them, but they lay the groundwork for extremist networks, which then create more mainstream covers that can be safely courted by the GOP, until it makes their currently-stated views socially acceptable and moved the country to the right. Then the cycle starts again.
But really, what libertarians, neo-Confederates, theocrats and imperialists share is a love for ONLY that part of the past that was shockingly unequal. No nostalgia for the Amish, who undeniably were conservative. It’s all about the values of those ancestors who just happened to be genociders and slavers and exploiters, yet they deny that those crimes were intrinsic to their success. It was all just a misunderstanding, see, we won’t bring back slavery once the federal government is destroyed, sure.
Congressman West is right. The Muslims agreed in 2000 to vote as a block–for Republicans.
hi, John! thx!
@AllenWest is incapable of rational thought! BUT @HouseDemocrats keep him talking! #2014soundbites