Rep. Hackbarth accuses union member of communism, invokes Hitler

Goodwin’s law. First to invoke Hitler loses.

It’s interesting that the representative mentions that he’s gotten letters just like this from other constituents. Could it be that his constituents are asking him to be their….
wait for it….. representative? Imagine that.

He “can’t believe what he’s hearing from folks”.

He obviously hasn’t been listening.

Wow!! First Hackbarth gets in trouble carrying a loaded weapon into a planned parenthood parking lot in St. Paul.. Then he gets caught on video and his excuse was that he was checking up on a woman that he dated one or two times!!! Is it not clear that this NUT BALL is unfit to serve.. He is INSANE!!!!!!!

Of course Hackbarth is part of today’s Republikan Fascisto.. To compare a union member to Hitler is just dead wrong.. One of the first things that Hitler did when he came to power in Germany was to DESTROY all Labor Unions. When people have no rights in the work place it is much easier to control them… Does this remind anyone of what is happening in this Country???

If anyone embraces Fascism it’s HACKBARTH!! Nazi Bastard!!

I can’t be the only one who’s noticed the increasing tendency of the right to equate the nazis with marxism, right? All in an attempt to make the American “left” look like nazis, and marxists. There are so many absurdities here that it’s hardly worth explaining in detail. But what’s scary is how many seem to believe it. Amiright?

Diane
“It’s interesting that the representative mentions that he’s gotten letters just like this from other constituents.”

And he called out that she was probably a Union hack and guess what – He was right and it was an orchestrated propaganda campaign from MAPE,

@Sam
So a union providing information about the issues and asking them to contact their elected officials makes her a “union hack”?
Or is it possible that quite a lot of people (some of whom happen to be union members) feel that the Republican budget plan is a disaster and wanted to let their representative know their thoughts?

In any case, Hackbarth’s response to a constituent is inappropriate and makes him sound utterly ridiculous.

So, Sam, are you saying the rep should only represent the constituents that agree with him? and ignore the state workers in his district? The guys a whack job!

Given that other Republican legislators got into the news in a bad way for obnoxiousness towards constituents, it really looks like Hackbarth just is incapable of learning. Apparently when he was in the Planned Parenthood parking lot with gun and said he was just checking on a woman he met once, that was an accurate reflection of his personality. He better have one incredibly safe district.

Hackbarth was caught armed, stalking a woman he claimed to be dating online but couldn’t fully identify claiming she was with another man he also couldn’t identify. The Rep explained himself by saying, about online dating, “You don’t get a lot of responses when you say you’re separated.” A family values hypocrite.

Odd that the MNGOP enlists one of their least stable legislators to engage MAPE. Doesn’t say much about their commitment to the process.

Praise Jebus, God hates honest dialogue, Amen.

I assume he was drunk when he wrote that. Nothing else can explain the bizarre combination of illiterate writing and historical ignorance.

“Nothing else can explain the bizarre combination of illiterate writing and historical ignorance.”

Well, he IS a Republican….

I’m not from Minnesota, but folks you need to vote this guy out of office. I read a complementary article on another site about this guy and thought it was scary to say the least.

Comparing unions to nazis and the general demonization of public workers HAS GOT TO STOP. We’re all in this together and we have to stand up for one another; otherwise, one day we’ll turn around and there will be nothing left and no Middle Class.

Is it evil to want those with the highest income to pay a share of their vast income that is almost as much as the share paid by those of middle or low income?

I don’t think that’s evil, or communist or Nazi. (In fact, it’s not even liberal or progressive – which would advocate that the wealthy actually pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than those in lower income categories.)

For Minnesota in 2008, including all state and local taxes paid compared to income reported, here’s the effective tax rate:

Top 1%: 9.7%
Middle: Up to 12.3%

So middle income Minnesotans pay an effective rate more than 25% higher than the Top 1%. (That’s a regressive tax system.)

Back in 1990, the various income groups paid effecitve rates that were within a couple tenths of a percent. Now, after two decades of “no new (income) tax” the tax burden has shifted down onto local governments and off the highest income earners.

I don’t think that’s “evil”, I just think it needs to be brought back into balance, especially in times like this when the lower income categories are stuck carrying a heavier burden from the recession than those at the very top.

The data used for this “communist propaganda” was brought to you curtesy of the State of Minnesota Dept of Revenue, as presented in its 2011 Minnesota Tax Incidence Study, an annual report required by State law.

PLEASE, good MnIndy readers–please remember the name Laurie Olmon. She ran against Hackbarth in 2010, making a decent showing for a new candidate with very little active support from the DFL. After the surprise trouncing of the party statewide in that election and the new leadership of Ken Martin, there’s hope that Laurie can get some help to bring some justice, equality, and most of all SANITY to the voters of 48A.

Again: LAURIE OLMON in 48A in 2012!

As Hackbarth’s email makes clear, his thinking is disordered and borderline if not actually delusional. And to think that he was in a Planned Parenthood parking lot with a loaded gun. What was he really doing there? And unstable characters like him are making law for the rest of us.

There’s a broader context here that we can’t ignore. We have an entire movement (conservatism) that constructs its worldview on a series of falsified claims:

-creationism
-global warming is a hoax
-that centrist Obama is some kind of Marxist or socialist
-Obama wasn’t born here
-cutting taxes for the wealthy produces jobs
-deregulation helps the environment, since we all know that allowing more pollution without consequence for pollutors somehow produces less pollution through the supernatural magic of the “free market”
-a whole raft of urban legends and myths about abortion
-that same sex marriage and gay rights in general will in any way harm society

And on and on… Whatever the truth about a hundred different pressing issues of the day, we can find many conservatives basing their views not on evidence and reason but on faith, ideological dogmas, confirmation bias, racial prejudice, and so forth.

Thus, we have to ask ourselves, what kinds of minds will be attracted to the Republican party?

The real communists are those rich people who export our jobs, steal our valuable quality of life, and force us into poverty so the echelion can become richer. That is communism my friend. Not Unions trying to stop their loss of their values of labor.

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Occasionally, it seems like there is a thin line between ignorant and crazy. I would advise the Representative to seek professional counsel on which applies in his case.

douche…that’s all i have to say