This is the flip side of the coin

[pecunium]

There was a small kerfluffle when a Bush supporter alleged his daughter had had a Bush sign ripped from her hands (which seems a trifle less than troublesome than the kicks and hair-pulling Bush supporters have been giving to Kerry supoorters in police custody, but I digress).

Today I see this

Vandals target local Democrats’ office for second time "LAFAYETTE — Vandals set fire to signs and wrote pro-President Bush messages on the front of Lafayette’s Democratic Party."

Which of the two is worse (even if we assume, which the evidence suggests is a bit of reach, given that the Bush supporter has made the same, basic, allegations in the past two presidential elections)? The snatching of a sign from someone's hand, when they are at a rally for one guy, supporting the other, or the burning of signs; endagering property and the defacement of a building?

I know where I stand, and I know that it would make me less willing to support the candidate you were willing to try to pull this sort of half-assed kristallnact on behalf of.

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I agree, in principle, but when I see the nature of the supporters of the various parties and see a far greater level of violent action on the one, and not in the other (and given the nature of the system, the tertiary parties aren't really factors) I have to ask myself if there isn't some level of problem with the party.

For some reason the ideology of one seems to lead to more of this. Dave Niewert Orcinus has done a lot of work on the rise of fascism (hit the front page, on the left you'll find, ""Bush, the Nazis and America":
Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4.") and while he doesn't think the Republicans are there yet, he does see a disturbing lot of parallels between the rhetoric they use, and the means/rhetoric used by other fascist regimes; on their way to power.

This is more of a, "Friendly Fascism." Think of it as "Compassionate Conservatism", on steroids.

The attitude that one who is against the present administration is against the Nation is disturbing, and one they have been trumpeting for years.

It worries me.

TK