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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Sun Oct 14, 2012, 05:08 AM Oct 2012

Stratfor-founder George Friedman compares Tea Party to "Hitler and Lenin"

Other analysts also make comparisons to Nazi-movement

http://politicalgates.blogspot.de/2012/09/stratfor-founder-george-friedman-slams.html

Back in March 2010, it was not very popular to point in public that the teabaggers are mainly a bunch of extremists (which are being manipulated and exploited by the billionaires and their fake grassroots groups, as it later turned out). In March 2010, the Tea Party and their nasty protests were still quite a novelty.

Therefore it is fascinating to discover that in the leaked Stratfor-emails, to which Wikileaks granted us full access several weeks ago, not only the CEO of Stratfor, George Friedman, but also other analysts already had very strong views about the Tea Party in March 2010 and had no hesitation to compare them to "Hitler", "Stalin" or the Nazi movement - even quite directly comparing Sarah Palin to Hitler! And I thought we were the only ones at "Palingates" back in 2010 who did that...

As most of you already know, Stratfor is a controversial private global intelligence company. Their emails had been hacked by Anonymous and were then published by Wikileaks (just excerpts of it, in an ongoing process, apparently due to the sensitive nature of the material).

Stratfor CEO George Friedman in particular regarded the Tea Party as a threat to Democracy - despite being politically "pretty hard right", as he says about himself.

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Stratfor-founder George Friedman compares Tea Party to "Hitler and Lenin" (Original Post) eridani Oct 2012 OP
Looks like the grown-ups are getting tired of the teabagger antics Hugabear Oct 2012 #1
Friedman bascially wanted to be a Cold War mercenary fighting against communists ck4829 Oct 2012 #2
Wow, Friedman is a Reagan-loving Neo-Con POS... Odin2005 Oct 2012 #3

Hugabear

(10,340 posts)
1. Looks like the grown-ups are getting tired of the teabagger antics
Sun Oct 14, 2012, 05:21 AM
Oct 2012

Sometimes I almost feel sorry for "old-school" conservatives, having to deal with the Tea Party idiots. It really must be like trying to have a discussion with a bunch of screaming toddlers running around fighting each other.

Almost...but then you have to remember they created the problem themselves. They thought that the teabaggers might prove to be useful idiots, giving the appearance of a grassroots movement. The problem with giving voice to a bunch of rabble-rousing racists is that those rabble-rousing racists think they actually are a grassroots movement, and they start to take on a life of their own. The problem the old-school conservatives have is that, while the teabaggers might share the same principles, they're not as subtle about it. They have no qualms about putting their racism on full display for the country to see, and I think that scares the shit out of many "mainstream" rethugs. It's okay to be selfish, racist, anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, etc - but you're not supposed to be so damned transparent about it!

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
2. Friedman bascially wanted to be a Cold War mercenary fighting against communists
Sun Oct 14, 2012, 11:05 AM
Oct 2012

For him to see the Tea Party as totalitarian is very telling.

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