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   From: aouwm@yahoo.com   
      
   A Thomas wrote   
   > What a great post.  The Left is trash: generally hateful, spiteful and   
   > violent.   
   >   
      
   Chip Berlet has described in some detail in his 2000 book, Right-Wing Populism   
   in America, which details its history from Bacon's Rebellion to the Ku   
   Klux Klan to the modern-day Posse Comitatus and militia/Patriot   
   movements. What distinguishes these populists from their left-wing   
   counterparts, as Berlet explains, is that "they combine attacks on   
   socially oppressed groups with grassroots mass mobilization and   
   distorted forms of antielitism based on scapegoating." Yet, building   
   on a false characterization of the history of populism, Goldberg goes   
   on to characterize such historical figures as Father Charles Coughlin,   
   the rabid anti-Semitic radio talker of the 1930s, and Sen. Joe   
   McCarthy as left-wing figures simply because of their populist   
   foundations.   
      
   Beyond the Klan, there were the Silver Shirts, the American Nazi Party, the   
   Posse Comitatus, the Aryan Nations, or the National Alliance -- all of   
   them openly right wing fascist organizations, many of them involved in some of   
   the nation's most horrific historical events. (The Oklahoma City   
   bombing, for instance, then there was William Dudley Pelley, Gerald L.K.   
   Smith, George Lincoln Rockwell, William Potter Gale, Richard Butler, or David   
   Duke -- all of them bona fide right wing racists and fascists.   
      
   "the Left" were the people who were beaten and murdered in the   
   1920s by the squadristi and the Brownshirts; and the first Germans   
   sent off to Nazi concentration camps like Dachau were not Jews but   
   socialists, communists, and other left-wing political prisoners,   
   including "liberal" priests and clerics.   
      
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