If you aren't with them, you're against them

Digby comments on the curious tendency of the hard right to accuse progressives of actively supporting the terra'ists, when the facts present a rather different picture.

I especially enjoy this accusation of the libertine, decadent elitist left being in cahoots with the gay hating, women oppressing Islamic fundamentalists. Because when you think about it, isn't it much more likely that there are those on the Right who find common cause with religious radicals?

And he not only goes to show it's more likely- because they have.

Federal documents reviewed by the Weekly show that [Dana] Rohrabacher maintained a cordial, behind-the-scenes relationship with Osama bin Laden’s associates in the Middle East—even while he mouthed his most severe anti-Taliban comments at public forums across the U.S.

From the top echelon of the Carlyle Group, to the Bu$hCo White House, to the machinations of the NeoTheoCon spear carriers, there have associations of the fascists and zealots of the East and West for the last 40 years that I know of.

To accuse the opponents of the Corporate takeover of America with supporting terrorism is worse than simple projection, it's an attempt to rally the misinformed against the people trying to make America the nation we all used to be proud of.

This quote comes to mind:

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak out for me.