Moreover for Progressives, words in general only mean what they desire them to mean, and only for as long as it takes to obtain what they want: power, control and the wealth created by others with which to purchase the loyalty and complacency of the general populace. The chilling effect you feel is Liberty being placed on ice. Dissent now becomes not patriotic but "seditious" and its supporters not patriots but a dangerous tea-bagging rabble to be observed and constrained in the interest of public safety, which at this rate will soon have a "Committee" created in its name, as I believe once happened before.
The Tea Party protests are nothing compared to the seething rage of the anti-Bush crowds
London Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) ^ | March 29, 2010 | Stephanie Gutmann
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2482375/posts
So, according to Frank Rich of the New York Times, the Tea Party protesters are indulging in a “small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.” There is a “tsunami of anger” gathering across the land, he writes, and an “accompanying rise in right-wing extremism”...In the meantime, let’s not flush recent history down the memory hole. Zombietime.com, a very reputable website that has been around for years specialising in photographing political rallies and public gatherings, has a very interesting gallery of photos from the Bush years. Go here to see people at rallies holding signs with legends like “Save Mother Earth. Kill Bush.”