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Originally Posted by Tom Wilde
I'm not saying the BNP doesn't have a Big Idea; I'm simply saying that this isn't it, and that the Big Idea it has isn't a new one. Its Big Idea is roughly as follows:
Blame everything on some already unpopular minority, scare people into thinking that everything is going to get much worse, and then use people's fear to justify authoritarian policies.
Like I say, this isn't a new idea - it has been used by pretty much every tin-pot nationalist bully that ever walked on this green Earth. Hitler and Bush to name but two. The target minority changes, but the cynicism and dishonesty doesn't.
Griffin's only contribution has been to realize that the Jews were no longer unpopular enough (or numerous enough) to be a convincing scapegoat, and therefore switch his fire on the Muslims instead.
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There may be something in your argument here, but is sounds exactly what the present government are doing, not the BNP. The contribution regarding Peak Oil is that it has been around for long enough, but it is the BNP, I believe, that have brought it to the forefront, politically speaking, as they have done with numerous issues. Mainly issues that every other Party is afraid to touch.
16-02-2008, 04:35 PM
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