People are angry -- some with good reason, most just because it feels good to be angry right now. People are being bussed rent-a-mob style to turn townhalls in frothing pools of rage. And, wherever the President goes, there seems to be a couple of angry white men with guns on their hips and rifles slung on their shoulders but instead being thrown into the deepest, darkest jail we could find these sociopaths are paraded on cable news.
We're on the edge of a very dark cliff overlooking a very dark abyss in this country. In that dark abyss lays the kind of real political violence that dare not speak its name. Instead of recognizing the drop that stands before them, the Conservative Movement and Right Wing in this country continues to push us all towards the cliff.
Today's example -- one might even exalt it to a perennial example -- Wingnut Outpost WorldNetDaily:
No doubt those at WorldNetDaily will put on a good show of being appalled and outraged. "That's Not What We Meant!" They'll sputter and then claim an almost childlike ignorance. "Words are Words. Just a cute turn of the phrase! And that picture! That picture is just cool is all!"
But everyone knows Words Mean Things, Images Mean Things. If words were just words books would've lost their enchantment over us thousands of years ago. If images held no power the movie industry would never have been born and the photographs would've remained a scientific curiosity. Images and Words have power, especially over angry unstable minds.
The Right Wing right now is gleefully playing with verbal fire. And unfortunately for all of us somebody or bodies is going to hear that verbal fire and transmute into a real fire that will burn us all.