The only problem with...

Standing idly by or simply weakly commenting on rhetoric like this:
"Patti Weaver, organizer and head of the Pittsburgh Tea Party.
She compared Obama to the Nazi reign in Europe during World War II, that is now 'an evil in this country that you are standing up to.'   
Weaver also said, “(Obama) wants the country to fail.”
Dan Przybylek of Buffalo Township, said he came to the rally because he believes, “this November's election will determine the future of this country.
“There are two paths this country can take,” Przybylek said. “We can go down the path to opportunity and growth, or we can go down the path of dependence.”

Or Pictures like this:


Besides the incredible and willful misunderstanding of history. Is that it assumes that the simple exposure of evil will repulse decent people. It is an overestimate of the aggregate American intelligence to laugh at the epsilon semi-morons spouting this nonsense as simply exposing how dumb they are. Gullibility seemingly knows no limits.

Fear can push normally reasonable people to believe crazy things. And conservatives are nothing if not afraid. The exercises in projection as evidenced by this picture and practically any random speech by a teapartier, are mind-boggling. It is also a form of inoculation. If you were to look at this crap or listen to the leaps of faith teapartiers take in comparing liberals or Democrats to nazis and say "hey fellas, you know something, your words and actions really seem more reminescent of fascists than do those of the your enemies," it would sound... impolite or perhaps foolish. And we liberals hate to be impolite or seem to be foolish.

But just for the heck of it, we could ask our fellow Americans of teabag affliction a few questions. Perhaps they could be phrased in a manner more like Jeff Foxworthy's old routine.

6. You are driven to indoctrinate others into your way of thinking. So much so, that you try to re-write history, change the way school children are taught and you brainwash the ignorant. You use your propaganda machine as a tool to achieve this.
7. You fear and demonize intelligent people who have a higher education because they are the ones who can thwart your effort to brainwash people. You then attempt to prevent others from achieving a higher education because you want the people as ignorant as possible so you can convince them that your way is the right way.
8. You have a deep hatred and fear of communists and you instill your followers with hatred and fear of others by accusing your political opponents of being communists. This gives you an easy scapegoat to blame when things go wrong. Any person or policy you don’t like is branded as communism.

Just a few of the more interesting indications if "you might be a fascist."

We, the people outside their movement, ignore or dismiss these fanatics at our peril.