Holocaust expert Deborah Lipstadt concurs that the insane personal hatred the conservative movement has for Hillary Clinton is analogous to the demonized conception of Jews that hard core anti-semites hold.
While Professor Lipstadt was making the more measured observation that both forms of hatred are based in irrational prejudice discconnected from reality, I would go further and suggest that the Clintons play a role in movement conservative lore that "the Jews" play in the world-view of antisemite extremists; i.e. being the Hofstadter-eque Enemy controlling the world. The similarity even extends to the paranoid conspiracies about her being out to control America (and the planet through a one world government.)
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Unfortunately, it is this hatred that makes me wish Hillary does not win the nomination from the Democratic side. While McCain will appeal to a few democrats, Hillary will not appeal to any republicans. With the country being evenly split, this would tantamount to a republican victory, and that would be disaster...
I am not an American citizen, and dont plan on being here too long, but seeing the utter destruction that the policies of the current US president has cased around the world, I can only hope that a saner president takes office in 2009. Unfortunately, the craziest democratic candidate (barring Kucinich maybe) is saner than the sanest Republican candidate, so a democratic victory is all that matters right now...
H.G.,
Here is another article on the irrationality of Hillary hate.
http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/all-you-need-is-hate/?8ty&emc=ty
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