I know this is a short diary, but...
Since the 90s, I've been a follower of that particular little community. I read Free Republic so you don't have to, for a couple of reasons. First, the discussion there is a bellweather for the standard Rightie response on just about any issue - whatever the right-wing narrative of the day may be, it was a discussion on Free Republic a day or two before. Second, because it is a pretty good gauge of just how extreme the vanguard of the "base" has become.
To give an example, discussion of the coming "CWII," an armed conflict for the soul of the nation, are commonplace there, and a not-very-small segment treats this as inevitable, with the only questions being the timing and the 'trigger' event.
But, here... I give you a thread alternately celebrating and mocking the fact that the victims of MH71 included a sizable number of persons engaged in AIDS research.
Truly disgusting.
http://www.freerepublic.com/...