The teeming hordes of jackbooted Obama thugs were sent a clarion call from der schwarze Führer to hound and intimidate David Freddoso through polite expressions of displeasure via publicly available forums such as the telephone and e-mail. 

The resistance is predictably displeased, realizing that this hearkens back to Hitler’s ingenious letter-writing campaign against western Europe.  After tying up the postal services of those free countries for virtual hours at a time, they all mysteriously dropped dead because fascism is evil. 

And the exact same thing is happening here, today.  Or last night, actually. 

Everyone’s out there righteously defending community organizers against the convention of hate that was the RNC,* but I’d like to offer a word of defense for the bureaucrat.  Ezra called out the McCain campaign for one of their more belligerent and dangerous lies.

Last night, in his speech, John McCain said, “My health care plan will make it easier for more Americans to find and keep good health care insurance. His plan will force small businesses to cut jobs, reduce wages, and force families into a government run health care system where a bureaucrat stands between you and your doctor.”

I should say, of course, that not only isn’t this true, but it’s nonsensical. Where exactly is the bureaucrat supposed to stand? In the waiting room? Outside your car? Obama’s health care plan is basically a way to subsidize private insurance. There’s a regulator involved, but he has nothing to do with you or your doctor. Instead, he stands behind your insurer, tapping his foot, and warning against denying you coverage on grounds of ill health or bad luck.

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Amazingly, the mile high Nuremberg Rally that Jonah Goldberg has been prophesying has yet to materialize.  It just looks like a bunch of people watching speeches.  I’m pretty sure that Hitler didn’t preface his calls to Aryan action with five hours of Sheryl Crow and something called “Call to Invesco”. 

You never know, though - there’s still time for Obama to declare Democratic jihad on Wal-Marts and those airbrushed eagles window overlays that go in the back of pickup trucks.  That’s fascism you can believe in.  Seriously (my friends), I’m kind of disappointed.  I was promised the sort of transformational crusade that would make me pants-shittingly conservative once I woke up to its true intent, and instead all I’m getting is a filler soundtrack that sounds like the upbeat side of The Perfect Wedding Dance Tracks, Vol. 3.  I wants my totalitarian temptation, Obama!

Had I not sold my truck to a local auto mechanic, I wouldn’t have seen this article in Time about libertarians.  And that would have been a shame, because the article’s really good, exposing how silly libertarians are without straining itself or dropping the formal journalist tone.  Without coming out and saying it, it’s easy to see how libertarianism, despite all the heavy-handed rhetoric about freedom, is fundamentally a right wing authoritarian philosophy that only has anti-authoritarian trappings because libertarians believe (sometimes rightly, sometimes not) that the federal government is an impediment to establishing the authoritarian society they crave.  Getting the government out isn’t about rejecting authority, but making individuals of the proper sex (male), proper race (white), and proper socio-economic status (property owners and independent businessmen) the ruling classes of a series of small societies. 

Really, the article made me happy, in a chortling sort of way.  The high ideals that libertarians espouse are exposed as paper thin right wing fantasies, and it’s no wonder that most libertarians end up voting Republican.  Slapping a few admirable ideas about legalizing vice crimes on top of a larger philosophy that’s about restoring “local” control—-i.e. making it easier for white men to directly oppress everyone else in their community without interference—-doesn’t make them pro-freedom. It just makes the cover story sound better.  The fact that social conservative authoritarians who support bans on abortion and gay marriage (like Ron Paul and Bob Barr) find it easy to make the switch over to libertarianism makes it clear that “freedom” is a straight male-only right, though it’s fair to say that anyone who has to work for anyone else is also excluded from the group of people considered deserving of this freedom.  There’s nary a female libertarian to be found in this article—-just a voiceless wife—-which reflects a larger tendency of the ideology.  It’s not just the lack of female numbers, but an erasing of women as actors in their worldview.  Witness:

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By this standard, all German politicians with more drawing power than John McCain…er, all German politicians, natch, are, in fact, incipient Hitlers.

Here’s a tip for liberals: If your candidate is going to stage enormous rallies in front of tens of thousands of chanting Germans (with monuments to Prussian military might in the background) in the middle of his Presidential campaign, it isn’t the GOP’s fault if the footage comes out looking a little like Hitler at Nuremberg.

To be fair to Ross Douthat, I too get nervous whenever I see large groups of white people chanting things.  Like at Queen concerts, or megachurches. 

UPDATE: Blame the Jooooooos!