The revolution has begun. It is a Holy War, and it is being televised. It is right there in front of our faces, but we are not seeing it.
Okay, so it's not unique to America. At least it's not very unique, and it's not new.
With the added pressure of a shattered economy, more and more angry men are loadin' up the guns and goin' on a rampage. They're shooting their families, their neighbors, their former co-workers, and a whole bunch of strangers who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
They're targeting women, minorities, and liberals.
The demagogues on hate radio and television like to think of themselves as being at the forefront of a glorious movement, where gun nuts armed to the teeth will seize power with a few deft and well-coordinated maneuvers and return it to "Real Americans", whatever they are, and have the country run by a paramilitary fascist force.
The fact is that the people with the guns are not tactical military geniuses. They are desperate, close to insolvency and homelessness. They blame everyone but the politicians whose policies are responsible for their misery. For all the endless posting on unmoderated right-wing sites and repeated calls and emails to their Congresspeople, they are small in number, and it is impossible for them to maintain the delusion of ubiquity without seeing an occasional crack in the facade.
Nor are the hate-mongers who are trying to encourage their supporters to arm themselves for the coming insurrection geniuses, although they certainly see themselves as just that. (Hint: If you think you are the only sane person in the country, you are neither.)
Many of the armed warriors believe that the Rapture is imminent. Like Sarah Palin, they may believe that we are in a cosmic struggle between good and evil, between witches and demons on one side and angels on the other, and apparently those angels are carrying semi-automatic weapons.
People like this are literally on a crusade.
Rather than forming "well-regulated militias", these people will crack one at a time, taking out whoever they can shoot before they are cornered and kill themselves.
I see no difference between this and a guy in Iraq who straps on a bomb, walks down to the market and blows up himself and a dozen others for a political cause and a fast forward into heaven.
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