Now that’s some Con-Yankery, all down in there.
Confederate Yankee, Confederate Yankee.com:
Those Who Refuse to Learn From History…
…Are condemned to misquote George Santayana?1
Every once in a while I’ll get an email or a link to the words of Kitty Werthmann, an Austrian-born naturalized American citizen that watched Austrians give themselves to Hitler’s creeping fascism,
Above: At least equally seductive was Hitler’s high-stepping, howdy-hi-hoing,
boom-shakalaka fascism
only too recognize their mistake after their freedoms were extinguished.
Uh, hold on one single, solitary second here. Did he say Kitty Werthmann?
The wingnuts seemed to be cranking through a turnstile of no return when phrases like “flaming liberal” and “Snopes.com” began to drift together in their speech, following that characteristic wingnut style of reason-by-mere-association that so often resembles the old Electric Company segment with the two silhouettes alternating syllables. And indeed, here’s how Werthmann said our freedoms were being extinguished in 2007, during what you’d have to call a significantly more Bush-influenced period of the Obama candido-presidency:
From her own experience, Mrs. Kitty Werthmann will help you see we are walking the same path as the Nazi’s. She was 12 years old living in Austria. At that time, there was order, prayer and pictures of Jesus. Hitler took over and all that was removed! Unemployment rose to 35%, bank loans rose to 25%, unions called strikes, all this with 98% of the people claiming to be Catholic!
Soon there was massive welfare. Cries went out for equal rights for women.
Cries went out for equal-so-called-rights? Oh my God, it’s literally like a Macy’s parade balloon of a Nazi pulled by a dozen Hitlers all wearing Nazi costumes, while shouting “we love Hitler,” and you’re literally a big Nazi watching this, thinking, “God, moments like this really bring back the great Woman Suffrage marches of 1913-1918 that brought about the 19th Amendment.”
Socialism took women out of the home, raising the children, and into the factories. They took the children away from the family and raised them by the state. The Health department offered training for the elderly but they were killed.
Should’ve done that training then, huh?
Hear her tell how the U.S. is going the same way!
Uh, take it on downtown, Mr. Yankee:
Today, her warning is haunting, and seems to echo what we see unfolding before us.
…If what’s unfolding before us is a summons for guh-hickular bovicide, after the night the junked-out Cordoba full of empties and bagged dog poop somehow caught fire and burned the cows down. Or no, for us, it would echo what we see unfolding if we were unfolding this.2
1 Additionally, many are still unaware that “Black Magic Woman” is a Fleetwood Mac cover.
2 This somewhat famed Jaro Hess print, or rather another copy of it at my father’s house, was where I first noticed the word, ‘dilatory,’ at age 13 or so. (See the “dilatory ship” at bottom left.) Having kind of a rough relationship with time, I imagined that the dilatory person might have a noun prepared for him as a ‘dilator’ (pronounced like ‘dilettante’) for whom time seems to dilate, or to pace itself naturally slower. And pursuant, that their temperamental opposites were ‘contractors,’ since those were observed showing up on job sites at 6AM and running around on rooftops at a red-hided ape lope until dusk, when their pickups began to be spotted at Bennigan’s. Parallelilly, which is not a word, these people were ‘die-earlies,’ based on predicted hour of death (hangover + roofing mishap, etc.). Not normally being vulnerable to accident at such an hour, we die-laters had it granted us to take our fatal powder in the greater dignity afforded by the post-meridian.
Despite all this, I never did find out whether ‘dilatory’ had any such noun attached to it. And with every day being a winding road, life izzing a highway, etc., and things like the Internet having been built in the time since I last saw the Hess print, it seemed two minutes ago to be a good idea to go see whether it did. Currently, eh, not so good of one.
