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03/06/09(Fri)18:58:18 No.3386309Sir
Oswald Mosley of the British Fascist Union was fond of doing the same
thing in his speeches. Go find a few on Youtube, they're a trip. He
seemed to know that he was speaking to a crowd with a simplistic
understanding of the two dominant political parties and a deeply rooted
frustration with unemployment, so he conflated the two parties,
claiming they were identical, part of a reactionary effort to suppress
the will of the body politic. Of course, his BUF party was then
positioned as the ideal third option, and many bought it.
This
sort of "X and Y are contradictory yet identical and equally sinister"
reasoning seems to show up wherever you find frustrated,
unsophisticated people who either don't understand the nuances that
distinguish two movements/ideologies/political parties from one
another, or (if they're involved in a far right movement) want to blur
them together into a single target so that they can use it as a locus
for the frustration and hatred of their supporting members.
Anyway, here's a good read on it:
http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_blackshirt.html |