{"id":13216,"date":"2011-05-01T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13216"},"modified":"2011-05-01T16:10:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:10:38","slug":"its-the-holocaust-of-analogies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13216","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Holocaust of Analogies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadlyno.com\/archives\/34982.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SadlyNo+%28Sadly%2C+No%21%29\">Sadly, No!<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/42836858\/ns\/politics-capitol_hill\/\">wisdom of Our Michele<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on Saturday described the loss of \u201ceconomic liberty\u201d that young Americans face today as a \u201cflash point of history\u201d in which the younger generation will ask what their elders did to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech to New Hampshire Republicans, Bachmann recounted learning about a horrific time in history as a child \u2014 the Holocaust \u2014 and wondering if her mother did anything to stop it. She said she was shocked to hear that many Americans weren\u2019t aware that millions of Jews had died until after World War II ended.<br \/>\nBachmann said the next generation will ask similar questions about what their elders did to prevent them from facing a huge tax burden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tell you this story because I think in our day and time, there is no analogy to that horrific action,\u201d she said, referring to the Holocaust. \u201cBut only to say, we are seeing eclipsed in front of our eyes a similar death and a similar taking away. It is this disenfranchisement that I think we have to answer to.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s awesome Bachmannese. \u201cThis is not an analogy. But one thing is just like the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to Donald Trump, she\u2019s only the second-most berserk candidate running for president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via\u00a0Sadly, No!, the\u00a0wisdom of Our Michele: Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on Saturday described the loss of \u201ceconomic liberty\u201d that young Americans face today as a \u201cflash point of history\u201d in which the younger generation will ask what their elders did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13216\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13218,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13216\/revisions\/13218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}