OK, So the Baggers Cheer for the Execution of an Innocent Man and...

[MarianJack]

...scream "YEAH" when one of their libertarian heroes is asked if the government should allow an uninsured man to die. OK, so their libertarian hero not only didn't refute these "YEAH" cries, he just used more words to say the same thing. OK, so this exposes the teabagger movement as one that is motivated by good ol' "Christian" values such as meanness, hatred, bigotry, blood lust, massive stupidity and shortsightedness and of course, racism. OK, so this shows the baggers as contemptible and detestable people.

We know that all of this is true.

Of course we know that our crusading "liberal" media is too enthralled with all that is teabagger that they'd never cite any of these truths.

My question to the thinking people is this.

Do any of you see the direct parallels between the conduct of the teabaggers and the fools who attended the mcsame/palin(comparison) rallies in 2008? I certainly remember the cries from the crowd of "KILL HIM" when Obama's name was mentioned. I remember the shrill woman who called Obama an arab (to his credit, mcsame did take her microphone away). I remember the racist old fart waiting in line for a mcsame/palin(comparison) rally with the stuffed monkey dressed as Obama. I remember the rally-goer saying that women who were made pregnant by their rapist "should die".

This has been the type of conduct I've seen and sometimes experienced from the far right for 40+ years.

I've been called a traitor as well as the usual other names since I expressed my opposition to the Vietnam War in 1967 when I was 12. I remember a red neck asshole screaming that I should be hung when I was on my way to an anti war rally in 1970 a few months before my 15th birthday. I remember hearing them chant "this time 4 and next time more" after the Kent State Killings. This was done by the sons and daughters of some of the same rightists who condemned Charlie Chaplin for being too hard on HITLER in "The Great Dictator"

I wonder why I see so few people point out that the teabagger movement is only the same crappy ingredients in a new and crappier package. I know I can't expect our asswipe corporate media to actually do some work and show this. Unfortunately, too much of the public is still more worried over the most recent developments on their favorite reality tv show to care about their nation's welfare.

I am surprised that there aren't more progressive voices and thinking minds pointing this out. Am I missing something?

Thanks you for "listening" to my little rant.

PEACE!

[elocs]

1. Ironic that these self-professed Christians would shout "Crucify him!"

about an innocent man.

Jesus would deny knowing anything about this bunch.

[MarianJack]

3. An Updated Scripture Verse Might Be...

..."Jesus wept again."

After looking at this crew cite him as a source of these hateful views, He just may.

PEACE!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. None of this is new.

It goes 'way back to the KKK (maybe even before), and in the '50s there was Joe McCarthy and friends, and the John Birch Society. Hateful right-wingers are part of the history of this country.

What is different now, though, is that this wingnuttery has gone mainstream. People who would have been laughed off the stage just twenty years ago are now considered serious candidates for the presidency. Opinions that once would have been thought of as lunatic fringe stuff are accepted by the punditry as worthy of legitimate consideration. The modern equivalent of the asshole rednecks of the '60s now have access to the Internet, and instead of standing on a street corner jeering at protestors, they go online and disseminate their hate to millions.

In terms of quality, it's no different than it ever was. But the quantity has been magnified, exponentially. And its omnipresence is causing it to be assimilated into mainstream political thought. That's the scary part.

[MarianJack]

4. Not only the access to the internet, but...

...also a compliant media giving them further legitimacy.

PEACE!

[Rincewind]

5. I fully expect

that within a few months, we will hear the teabaggers shout "Death to America" during one of the debates.

[MarianJack]

6. After this, they'd be offended...

...by being referred to by a name they gave themselves.

They make Kelly Bundy look like an absolute genius!

PEACE!

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Seems to me you're not missing a thing.

Thank you.

[MarianJack]

8. No, Thank You.

BTW, I love North Carolina!

PEACE!

[great white snark]

9. So, so true. Same behavior by the same participants.

"I am surprised that there aren't more progressive voices and thinking minds pointing this out."

Well maybe some of us can't put the words to thoughts as exceptionally as you MarianJack.

Peace to you too!

[MarianJack]

10. Thank you.

I see that you're closing fast on the 1000 post mark. Congrats :patriot: !

PEACE!