I'm thinking these new right wing "patriots" have learned a lesson from Osama bin Laden: change doesn't come from hard work and elections like Obama fought. Real change comes when you blow up buildings, assassinate people, and threaten the innocent. Thank goodness a new generation of brave patriots have stepped up to the challenge and are using the new politics to good effect.From Politico.com:
Reps. Louise Slaughter and Bart Stupak have received death threats.I'm glad that proud Americans have decided that the brownshirt thugs of Nazi Germany are the wave forward for politics in America.
A tea party participant published what he thought was Rep. Thomas Perriello’s home address and urged disgruntled voters to “drop by” for a “good face-to-face chat.”
Vandals broke windows at Slaughter’s office in New York and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s office in Arizona.
This is reminiscent of the wonderful days of "democracy in bloom" during the early 1960s when the KKK struggled mightily to save "liberty" in America by bombing churches, pulling bus riders off buses and beating a political message into them by smashing their skulls, and by doing midnight assassinations. Ah yes. The good old days are back. The good old boys have stepped up to the plate and are swinging their baseball bats for "liberty".
And what's the threat? Why some Democrats want to provide medical insurance to the uninsured. How dare they? How un-American! If God intended people to have health insurance, he would have them born with insurance contract in hand!
Here is a relevant bit from Rachel Maddow. Fast forward to 1:10 into this video:
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Didn't Obama's opponents say, and maybe still do, that he "palled' around with terrorists? This goes to show that people should be careful of their alliances. The gun rights people should know that the Republican party will be the ones who take their precious guns. That a politician will denounce the very thing or method or vice that he is into and using or will use if need be.
I read a comment on RSN that basically said that the Democrats need to arm themselves. I find it very narrow minded to assume that all Democrats do not have guns... or, that all Republicans are gun owners or support gun rights. One of the biggest anti-gun laws came from a Republican's efforts (Brady bill) Democrats should not resort to a war on domestic terror. These terrorists need to think about the home that they are terrorizing.. they are destroying their own house for something that is not real. crazy They imagine that their puny gun collection is a match to chemical weapons and bombs and the military's arsenal. In effect they think they can bring a knife to a gun fight. Delusional romantic ideas about the good old days when a man could defend himself with a gun and survive. This is just a lot of fiction that never really existed except in novels and the movies. Do these idiots really want to live this way for an imagined injustice?
Thomas: I think it is funny that the only "terrorists" that Obama has tried to "pal around with" are those bomb-throwing Republican Senators and Congressmen. You know, the ones that shout "baby killer!" and give coded messages to their followers that so-and-so is a "dead man" or that they should "reload".
The tragedy is that incendiary words lead to incendiary acts. I saw it in the 1960s when the peaceful SCLC and SNCC were pushed aside by firebrands like Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panthers.
I would say that the Republican leadership and the right wing loudmouths on the radio and TV are the Stokely Carmichaels and Black Panthers of today. They are busy derailing a 220+ year old democracy and wanting to replace rule of law with the power that "grows out of the barrel of a gun". Rather than argue political points, they want to browbeat and terrorize their opponents.
The Congress of today is bearing a stronger and stronger resemblance to the pre-Civil War Congress where debate was replaced by fist fights on the floor of the Congress and where you subdued an opponent by beating him senseless to the point of death with your walking stick.
I hope we don't move back into that phase. Physical violence seems to be closer in America, but there is still the chance that civilized debate will be the course taken. The world needs a stable America that, while disagrees, still remains united in our commitment to our ideals.
I don't think we have a chance... Too many people listen to glen beck and hannity and other republican talking point broadcasters. I apologize; I was trying to be positive, but I just don't see a good thing happening in our current atmosphere in America.
Here is another post.... with the comment by Brian Knapp after the post.
Thomas: I worry along with you, but my gut-level hunch is that things will calm down. Hopefully the fanatics will be side-lined and calm will prevail. I liked Obama's speech in Iowa today where he pointed out that there has been no apocalyptic calamity following passage of the bill, so the wild rhetoric of those warning that the bill would destroy the country has been shown to be false. Hopefully people will notice this fact over the weeks and months to come and will fall away from the fanatics.
My only worry is that with enough money the fanatics can keep the over-heated rhetoric going. They have a purpose in this: put fear into people and the Republicans can win big in November.
I'm hoping (and expecting) things will calm down and by November a lot of people will realize they've been jerked around by fanatics selling snake-oil.
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