[thecavemaster]

Lyrics from a folk song sung at Tea Party Movement rallies:

Take it back,
Take our country back.
Our way of life is now under attack.
Draw a line in the sand, so they all
understand
And our values stay intact.
Take it back.

I am assuming that "they" is the political class in Washington, but mostly progressives and liberals. Although, one can envision lyrics of this sort being sung by Hitler youth with "they" being the Jews.... or sung by white sheeted Klansmen with "they" being blacks and Jews and Irish Catholics... or sung by young rebels in Rwanda as they wade in the blood of "they." Human history suggests that the demonization of "they" is a very slippery slope, a slope made steep with nativist paranoia, and used with wicked deftness by the ruthless of all ages.