I've written about this before, but I'm very concerned that the Obama administration, the Democratic Party, and we Democrats do not take the hate rhetoric (of which there are quotes below) seriously enough. I remember how badly President Clinton was treated and how President Carter was mocked, but never, never have a President and his allies been portrayed as enemies of the State. I urge to you read the entire article from which the snippet below is taken. I did not realize how much racism, and we must call it what it is, runs amok in the hearts of a minority of people in this country. They believe trash talk from entertainers who are making a lot of money from their schtick, but they are, I believe, the ones who are working against the best interests of the United States when they instigate citizens to use violence against perceived domestic enemies. Someone has to take responsibility, but those media owners who are making money off their entertainers aren't doing it. The Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks aren't taking personal responsibility to quit manipulating ignorant or unhinged or ideologically radical people. The progressives are not up-in-arms about it as they should be. President Obama has so far ignored much of it. But, it will not go away. It will get louder and crazier. Who can think this is good for our country? Read the entire article
here.
| |
Note that the radical right's media rhetoric is no longer even political in a partisan sense. Instead, it's purely revolutionary. It isn't, "We think taxes should be lower" or "Obama should be more hawkish overseas." It's, "There's an insidious and deadly plot afoot by Democrats and progressives to strip Americans of their freedom and this country of its greatness." Obama is now the incarnation of evil (the Antichrist?), and his driving hatred for America, as well as for democracy, runs so deep that he ran for president in order to destroy the United States from inside the Oval Office.
|