The birther craziness started before the election, but it was a mild and small craziness, probably because they were so confident they would never lose their grasp over America. Once it became apparent that they did on 11/4/08, the craziness started increasing little by little, until it is now at this point:
The birthers have a small but very loud group of followers. However, their numbers are likely greater than that of most RW terrorism groups. These people have shown a complete inability to listen to reason, facts, proof, evidence, etc. They just get more rabid, day after day, because they can't stand that they no longer have any power in the government (and a black man with a Muslim name does, at that).
I diaried about the birthers a lot months ago, and I thought it was pretty funny, because it was. But that was in the early stages of craziness, something you can laugh at. It's still kind of funny now, but it's starting to enter into scary territory when you see things like that video. The birthers are like sheep without brains -- all they need is a leader to call them to take up arms and "take America back", and there will be a huge new right wing extremist terrorist group. Something needs to be done about them.
Granted, nothing probably can be done. They're still in their right of free speech, and the Republican Party has become so crazy that they don't publically denounce these wingnuts...in fact, they secretly fan the fire by secretly co-sponsoring obscure "birth certificate" bills and having Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh talk about more birther stories.
This is likely their response to Obama winning so they don't have to accept it (they can't say he stole the election, after all). Liberals did the same thing with Bush, and of course the accusations against him were much more valid and not batshit crazy, they're still comparable. The difference is most liberals aren't violent. The crazy right wing? I wouldn't put it past any of them to put our President, Democratic Party representatives and normal citizens in danger. Most of the right wing murderers lately have been birthers. Coincidence? I think not.
What are your thoughts?