urge to kill ... rising ...

[bonibaru]

Mr. Baru's family are highly conservative Christians with an oppressive sense of upper middle class white male entitlement. In other words, everything that the younger Boni despised with a passion and the older Boni occasionally views with disdain when she pulls her attention out of her own head once in a while. His brother and I cannot have a

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[gweneiriol]

/me has no words.

[p_zeitgeist]

So wait. A person with a functioning brain actually thinks that the (not exactly obscure) fact that the Nazis used the words "socialist" and "workers" in the name of the party, with an eye to how the name would play, actually means that they were some flavor of socialists?

If so, hey, problem solved! We on the progressive side of things will simply rename ourselves the Progressive American Old-Fashioned Real Conservative Party. By the identical principle, this will make us conservatives. And it will make Obama a conservative too, and your brother-in-law will join with us as a good Real Conservative American ought, and we will all eat apple pie and sing patriotic songs together while passing that pesky insurance reform bill. How helpful a fellow he is, after all!

[bktheirregular]

Well, maybe your brother-in-law's got a point. I mean, all you need to do is take away the xenophobia, the racism, the bloodthirstiness, the hate-mongering, the calls for vengeance and manifest destiny of the master race, the biblical-level treachery, the megalomania, the clinical evil, and the flat-out insanity, and you just might have a valid comparison. If you squint. And have several dozen vodka highballs. With a PCP chaser.

Here in Greece, they got a real good look at the Nazis, the Commies, and socialists, and I can tell you that they wouldn't categorize the current President in any of those categories.