After watching the Michelle Bachmann interview, I fear for this country

[Maven]

After listening, too, to the atrocious robo-call that piece of shit is running, I fear for this country.

I fear that we've reached a point where the totalitarian, rightist hate faction of this country has become so untethered, and so ugly, that they can only be purged by fire. They can't be reasoned with, and they can't be delegitimized as long as some corporate entity puts a microphone to their sputtering lips and broadcasts their hate speech far and wide.

I fear for Barack Obama's safety when he's elected.

These people are corrosive acid to our Constitution, they truly hate freedom while invoking the word at every turn, and they will sacrifice anything and everything--including lives--to win. They are the un-Americans among us.

I still believe they are a minority, albeit a vocal one, but I'm certain they will make life unbearable after this election. We have a lot of struggle ahead of us.

[DesertFlower]

1. i saw that interview.

she wants members of congress to be investigated.

[vanderBeth]

5. She's a fucking female McCarthy

x(

[morillon]

9. Live by the sword, etc.

*If* she goes back into Congress, she'll be vastly outnumbered by Democrats. She'd better hope she hasn't committed any ethics violations.

But given the coattail effect, she may find herself without a job in January. :-)

[FatDave]

11. Don't go counting chickens just yet,

It ain't over.

[morillon]

12. Oh, I know. :-)

But absent some major fraud, the house should stay Dem. That said, I won't believe ANY good news until I see it, which is why I'm working toward a total Dem victory any way I can between now and November 5th.

[BklynChick]

2. word.

[LSK]

3. nothing new to me, I have seen these lunatics up close

Where you been?

[Guaranteed]

4. Yup.

But we're going to beat them.

[DearAbby]

6. I agree Harvey

They are inciting violence. This kind of talk is dangerous.

[jonnyblitz]

7. oh yes, they are all fired up and they are not going away any time

soon. a long struggle is ahead INDEED. good post.

[TheKentuckian]

8. This is nothing new

They just have nothing so they are scrambling and desperate which highlights the typical behavior is all.

[calmblueocean]

10. Yes and no. Yes, the right is McCarthyist and verges on violence; no, because they are dwindling.

The hate and threats of violence on the right are as genuinely terrifying to me as they are to you. You look at the vacant smile on Michelle Bachmann's face as she gleefully calls Barack Obama "un-American", and all you can feel is terror. People like Bachmann and Sarah Palin, Hannity and Glenn Beck, have only one purpose in life and that is to stoke the fires of fear and hatred in their base.

But that base is shrinking. Young people who have grown up during the Bush years, watching the Daily Show and Colbert, thriving on the internet, are never ever going to become Republican in large numbers. Even this presidential election is swinging hugely to Democrats, and that's not likely to change after 4 or 8 years, when even more young Dems become active voters, and bigoted, fearful elderly Republican voters die off.

In the end, the Republican party, to win any traction electorally, is going to have to stop indulging the worst aspects of its base and become more like Democrats. If they don't, they're going to be slowly shut out of the political process.

So, I'm still scared for Obama because of the fear and hate these people whip up, but I'm hopeful for the country as a whole.

[OnionPatch]

13. I'm prepared to "struggle."

I let my guard down on those evil shits in the nineties and I will never do it again for as long as I am breathing. I think I speak for a whole lot of people.

[gabby garcia]

14. Education is the only key..

enlighten the children and they will break the cycle of hate.

I can dream, right?