The hate talk is flying, online now. The reactionaries stalk armed around Town Hall meetings, lurk with their guns in parking lots outside airports when AF1 is in town and strut with their weapons down the National Mall. Now they are taking their UnAmerican hate online – over 1 million asshole reactionaries are now praying for Obama’s demise. Am I the only one who hears the assassination time bomb ticking?
I’ve been warning for some time about the rising levels of wrong-wing hate, and how that hate is again turning to either outright violence, preparing for violence or just simple hate-mongering and hate-speech that can incite others to violence. Now others are noticing a dramatic resurgence of militia activity that is
“(is) reminiscent of what was seen in the 1990s – right-wing militias, people ideologically against paying taxes and so-called “sovereign citizens” are popping up in large numbers, according to the report to be released Wednesday. The SPLC is a nonprofit civil rights group that, among other activities, investigates hate groups”
Did you catch the news about the wing-nut who brought and dropped a gun at a political meeting? I mean I know the reactionaries are crazy and stupid, but do they really believe the Libruhls are gonna attack their crazy tea-bag parties and protests? Don’t they realize that we aren’t armed?
Back in the Clinton era my own life was threatened by some wing-nut because I had posted a tongue-in-cheek website parodying the ‘black helicoper’ crowd (the main reason why I remain anonymous on this site). Bad as the Bush years were, the wing-nuts seemed to calm down in spite of the volume and stridency of the reactionary media hate speakers like Billo the Clown and Ann Coulter.
However the massive rejection of the Repugs at the polls and the election of a centrist President seems to have thrown them back into a frenzy that if anything seems even nastier and scarier than before. Living in San Francisco as I do I rarely encounter reactionaries, but today I was having a conversation with a self-described “moderate” from the South who went on at length about Obama’s Socialist agenda for health care and financial services, and railed about the swelling deficit – a guy who never squawked once about how Shrubya threw Clinton’s balanced budget to the wind and drove up the deficit like a two-bit lobbyist with a federal credit card.
I guess one of the downsides of the end of the “War on Terror” is that the reactionary talking heads have turned the other half of their hate rhetoric, formerly targeted at the Islamic world, at us Libruhls, again firing at us figuratively and literally with ‘both barrels.’
*Update* Bill Clinton better worry if he plans to participate in the contentious health care ‘town hall’ meetings - wing-nuts might use this guy’s technique to conceal an assassination weapon.
Case in point CongrAssClown Robin Hayes of NC tells a crowd of John McCain supporters that “liberals hate real Americans.” These fucking reactionaries aren’t even bothering to use code words anymore.
*Update* And what about this evil CongrAssClown Michele Bachmann R Minnesota, calling liberals anti-American, and calling for an witch hunt in Congress for Reps with ’Un-American’ views:
The reactionaries haven’t yet lost this election but they are already acting like poor losers. McCain rallies are becoming increasingly ugly as proto-brown shirts are increasingly calling for Obama’s blood:
Frustration at falling behind Mr Obama in opinion polls has begun to boil into anger at Republican rallies with Mr McCain and Sarah Palin.
Events this week have been marked by ugly outbursts from crowds. In Clearwater, Florida, shouts of “kill him!” could be heard amid a chorus of boos when Mrs Palin attacked the Democratic nominee over his links with 1960s radical, Bill Ayers.
Journalists were reported to have been taunted with obscenities or racial insults from members of audience when Mrs Palin blamed the “mainstream media” for what she described as her “less-than-successful” – and much-parodied – television interviews.
At a rally on Monday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mr McCain asked: “Who is the real Barack Obama?” A man in crowd screamed back the reply: “Terrorist!”
Among the wrong-wing is a really nasty core of folks who want anything but democracy. These are the real ‘Bush Base.’ Case in point, I was wandering around the brownshirtosphere yesterday and blundered into a site called Stop The ACLU. What a bizarre jihad! What don’t they like – “American” or “Civil Liberties?”
I thought the reactionaries wanted to take us back to the 1890s, but these wackos want to recreate some sort of weird Puritan world where only a few like-minded individuals have rights and the rest of us be damned. Worse, they’d be happy to sacrifice many of their own rights and replace our republic with a third-world style ‘strong man’ as long as said tyrant was willing to take away more of the rights of others.
Poor losers that they are, we can’t forget that they are armed. Don’t expect these bastards to take their looming defeat with grace (as we all did when Gore conceded a stolen victory to Shrubya) – I fully expect the more excitable of their members to try to kill Obama.
And for the more gutless among them, I imagine that the venom and bile they will dish out for Obama will be 100x worse than they dished at the Clintons.
I have a hard time looking at their websites as it is – they flat out call us progressives ‘the enemy within’ in their very post categories! You want to see the face of terror, go to one of these McCain rallies – if they let you in!
*Update* Biden agrees, calling on Caribou Barbie to condemn the rally haters