Is is just me
Sep. 4th, 2008 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janradderOr is anyone else creeped out by the "Country First" signs accompanied by full-throated chants of "U-S-A! U-S-A!"? All political rallies with chants and slogans, regardless of affiliation, border on the edge of creepiness simply because of they remind me (and others, I'm sure) of something out of Triumph of the Will. Those "Country First" signs, though, with their implication of "My country, right or wrong," along with the jingoistic "U-S-A!" chant, make this year's RNC seem to come closer to a Nuremberg rally than any I've seen in a while.
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Date: 2008-09-04 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-04 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-04 08:56 pm (UTC)The crowd was doing it at the 4th of July concert I was playing this year, while we were playing. It is scary, weird, and I don't even know what it's supposed to mean...USA exists?
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Date: 2008-09-04 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-05 01:44 pm (UTC)In today's context, it's how the Republicans prove that they are REAL patriots and put COUNTRY FIRST. (which is why the cry also means "Death to Democrats - unpatriotic marxist socialist un-american commie lib traitors" )
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Date: 2008-09-04 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-04 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-04 09:10 pm (UTC)Pink isn't well he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate band
and we're going to find out where you fans really stand
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Date: 2008-09-04 09:17 pm (UTC)