Progressives Again Call for ‘Revolutionary Justice’ After GOP Comments on Unemployed

by Donald Douglas | December 28, 2010 2:19 pm

An update to “Progressives Cheer Mark Madoff Suicide as ‘Revolutionary Justice’ [1].”

Turns out that the DownWithTyranny![2] progressives are invoking revolutionary appeals again. A ten-point roster of GOP quotes on the unemployed and public benefits actually ends with Marie Antoinette’s famous line, “Let them eat cake.” And then the progressive response:

Now we know that Marie Antoinette was expressing the modern-day Republican philosophy centuries in advance. And what happened to her?

This is another one of those times where I take progressives at their word. Republicans aren’t Bourbons, but radical leftists would love the same dénouement:

Via Memeorandum[3] with more progressive extremism at Digby’s[4].

Cross-posted from American Power[5].

Endnotes:
  1. Progressives Cheer Mark Madoff Suicide as ‘Revolutionary Justice’ : http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/progressives-cheer-mark-madoff-suicide.html
  2. DownWithTyranny!: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2009/12/republicans-in-their-own-words.html
  3. Memeorandum: http://www.memeorandum.com/101228/p43#a101228p43
  4. Digby’s: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/taxing-parasites.html
  5. American Power: http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/progressives-again-call-for.html

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