POLITICS - Reminder From FDR

"Fireside Chat of Franklin D. Roosevelt on creating discord" Rightardia 8/19/2010

On National Defense May 26, 1940, 9:30 PM, EST

But there is an added technique for weakening a nation at its very roots, for disrupting the entire pattern of life of a people. And it is important that we understand it.

The method is simple. It is, first, discord, a dissemination of discord. A group --not too large -- a group that may be sectional or racial or political -- is encouraged to exploit (their) its prejudices through false slogans and emotional appeals.

The aim of those who deliberately egg on these groups is to create confusion of counsel, public indecision, political paralysis and eventually, a state of panic.

Sound national policies come to be viewed with a new and unreasoning skepticism, not through the wholesome (political) debates of honest and free men, but through the clever schemes of foreign agents.

Sound familiar: this is exactly what the rebrand of the GOP is doing. Most people call these people, who are demographically identical to Plain Old Republicans, the Tea Party. The GOP was so embarrassed by GWB, they had to change their name.