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The “Fundamental Transformation” of America.

Partisanship is running high these days, if you listen to any of the commentators, but one thing that partisans from both sides agree on is this: big changes are quickly coming to America.

Conservatives have been saying that Obama is a radical president intent on bringing socialism to America. Obama said that he was going to “fundamentally transform” America, prompting Glenn Beck to ask, “Transform into what?”

The passage of Arizona’s recent immigration law, according to liberals, signals America’s first steps into Nazi-ism or apartheid. This view has even been endorsed by Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado: “It is absolutely reminiscent of second class status of Jews in Germany prior to World War II.” (And they say Beck’s investigation into FEMA camps was conspiracy-mongering…)

Bertha Lewis, CEO of ACORN, recently told the Young Democratic Socialists that we are entering a new age of McCarthyism. (True, the tea partiers are routinely accused of being un-American seditionists by liberals.)

But the truth is, America isn’t fundamentally changing because of Obama and Congressional Democrats’ actions. America faces great change from large scale global and domestic events that would have came about no matter what Obama did. Obama is only hastening some of the economic changes.

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“Hitler was a good scapegoat, but I want to open people’s minds about him.”

The far right talk show hosts are at it again, this time spreading smears and hate against German leader Adolf Hitler.

No, seriously, that’s what Oliver Stoned would have been saying in 1944.

The man who immortalized Che Guevara is off to set the record straight and correct the right-wing’s misinformation campaign about Hitler.

In a new documentary series titled “Secret History of America,” Stoned says, “I’ve been able to walk in Stalin’s shoes and Hitler’s shoes to understand their point of view. We’re going to educate our minds and liberalize them and broaden them.”

Naturally, his goal is to prove that America is responsible for the mass murder of 12 million during the Holocaust and millions more in Stalin’s Russia.

“Go into the funding of the Nazi party. How many American corporations were involved, from GM through IBM.”

Right, it was America’s fault that some of her companies were doing business in Germany, not the Nazi’s fault for… …killing 12 million people.

Naturally, Stoned is the best source for information about US history. With regards to John F. Kennedy’s assassination, he thinks that the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Marilyn Manson’s music killed Kennedy. (Though recent email leaks suggest global warming was the real culprit.)

However there is a bigger issue than just one fanatic having stuff come out of his mouth. The larger issue is about the progressive elite’s absolute lack of moral values.
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