Meme, schmeme, it's a slur that should not go unchallenged.
The shocking news that some Obama supporters are brash, uncivil, and (God help us) young is rocking the American political scene. The only sane explanation seems to be that they are some kind of weird cult, brainwashed followers gone over the edge, around the corner, and definitely downhill. Evidently human emotion is so foreign to Washington that honest enthusiasm is suspect. So much so, that it can be considered a perversion and hardly anyone blinks an eye.
I beg to effing differ. In fact, I demand to effing differ. So what if some Obama supporters are rude, nasty, and clueless? 25% of voters still think George Bush is a good president! Nobody calls them a cult despite what is obviously a mass delusion. I challenge you to name one group of more than 10 people, that doesn't have at least one bleephole amongst them.
The truth of the matter is that most of these loudmouths are simply exercising the historical right of young people to display their lack of manners publicly. They aren't Kool-Aid drinkers, they are merely people in love with hope, and it is only natural for them to want to run away with it. They fantasize that anyone who does not agree with them is either an ogre or a fool. In fact, with the exception that they can hopefully grow out of such an attitude, they are much more like the neocons than a cult. Or am I repeating myself?
What I protest is the ease in which such a charge denigrates a truly a popular political movement. You will notice that the people promulgating it don't dare charge Obama with being the Svengali behind the cult (at least not yet). Evidently these malefactors are volunteer cultists spontaneously generated underneath a cabbage leaf. With all the lies, insults and BS the neocons dump on the media every day, we should worry about what our hotheads say? At least our BS isn't party policy.
In the final examination, the charges leveled in this crude propaganda thrust are really a set-up for an argument to follow, thus: If Obama wins, you can dismiss anyone speaking in favor of him as a witless dupe and he is the evil Svengali who has corrupted them because (as has been established) his followers are proven cultists. Therefore, all things Obama are tainted and we knew it would happen because all Democrats are __ fill in the effing blank.
KOS members! Do not validate this crap by giving it the courtesy of consideration, it is nothing more than a ploy by people who think you are so dumb you can't tell rain from somebody peeing off a roof. Sink the Swift Boats in the yellow river they float on.