Reply #34: I think that's it possible that there is a war coming [View All]

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or at least a sort of war.

The battle lines are being drawn now, the party not in power, having tasted what it could do the last time they weren't in power, is doubling down on that strategy. The strategy of blind fear and hate, and total lies. Lies repeated over and over, in the media and by "leaders". They saw what it could do and did do to Clinton, and they think that they can do the same or worse to Obama. Obama has so many more strikes against him, he has that funny sounding name, he is half African and half white. He is not from the south or the west (even if a transplant). All of our elected Presidents in the last 40+ years have been from the South or the West (LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush*, Clinton, W. Bush*).

So they are whipping up the unwashed masses, embracing the wing nuts and the militias and white supremacists, and the anti-abortion crowd. They are telling them that the threat, which was EXTERNAL in the Bush years, is now an INTERNAL threat. That the elected President isn't really the President. That the infamous THEM (liberals, commies, socialists, fascists, nazis) are out to get them and have been cheating and manipulating the vote to achieve their nefarious goals (ACORN, etc). Their party leaders and the media have adopted their language... It's not an inheritance tax, it's a DEATH tax, we are not Democrats or the Democratic Party, we are Democrat. Obama is a terrorist or pals around with terrorists, he is not born in the United States, is not really even an American, and is not Christian and most especially, HATES WHITE PEOPLE. Health Care Reform is a communist/socialist/fascist plot. And on and on and on.

To the point where the unwashed masses object to a televised address by the President of the United States to their children in public schools on the importance of an education and the part that those children must play to get one.

There is a faux outrage every week, almost every day. Today was the "day of service to the STATE" outrage (it's a PLOT to get your kid into Americorp!) promoted by Rush.

The first shots have already been fired. The gun nut who thought Obama was coming to remove his guns kills 3 police officers, another anti-liberal asshole walks into a church and kills 2 in Tennessee, guy kills an abortion doctor in Wichita, again, in his church.

And this might well be the nature of this "war". More "random" acts of violent extremists against their fellow Americans who just happen to be Democrats and/or liberals. Lone wolves that aren't really lone nor wolves, but assholes listening too much to the hate speech on the radio and in the books. People who are unhinged a little bit, unhappy in their lives, and see this as a grand opportunity to go out in a blaze of "glory". Fred Phelps with a gun. And there are a *lot* of them. Not just a few hundred or even a few thousand, but 10s of thousands. And they are being goaded into action. Every time one of them pulls the trigger, another 10 are more willing to be martyrs for the cause of Rush and Shawn and Glenn... and now the leaders of the Republican party as well. Far from pulling these people back, like McCain did to the woman that stated that Obama was a terrorist, as she had been told (and was looking for confirmation of that belief by a "real" leader, an elected official, a sane person), the current leadership is pushing them forward, leading the charge, like Joe Wilson. Sarah Palin showed the Republican party that they CAN be batshit crazy and raise money doing it. Joe Wilson has reportedly received over $200,000 since he called the President a liar on national TV in the middle of an address to a joint session of Congress.

The dog whistles are getting to be SO loud now, even the cats are responding.

More acts of random violence, to be followed by an assassination attempt on the President.

After that, who knows? Will the African American community react like they did when Rodney King was beat up? Will we join them? And if something was to happen, would that reaction lead to the wanted (by the white supremacists) race war? Or would it even be a race war?

Would the nutters (teabaggers, birthers, 10thers, and the rest) start shooting at anyone with an Obama bumper sticker? And would we start shooting back, especially at those with "Open Season on DemocRATs" bumper stickers?

I don't know. Could it happen? Yeah, I think it could. Right now, all it needs is a spark. I don't want it to, but I think the kindling been gathered and the dry moss spread around the base. And it's the middle of fire season.