Monday, September 29, 2014

Progressivism: A Panorama Of Hoaxes

Instapundit » Blog Archive » DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: Politico illustrates story about race and the modern GOP with a pict…: "Tom Wolfe once wrote that “the greatest hoax of modern history” occurred when “Russia’s ruling ‘socialist workers party,’ the Communists established themselves as the polar opposites of their two socialist clones, the National Socialist German Workers Party (quicknamed ‘The Nazis’) and Italy’s Marxist-inspired Fascisiti, by branding both as “the fascists,” which quickly led to those two socialist clones as being described, per Stalin’s orders, as “right wing” for the rest of the 20th century with very little pushback from limited-government conservatives and libertarians until recent years. The Democrats’ ongoing efforts to offload their shameful racist past onto the GOP has to run a close second. Don’t let them get away with it."
Or just bullshit hip deep as I prefer to call it...