By "this" I specifically mean this:
I'm sorry, but this has to be said: the right-wing is a cancer on our nation. The people that comprise their base are the most irrational, unreasonable, and dangerous bloc of citizens in our nation. They are insane. I truly believe that. They must be marginalized and beaten to a pulp at every turn.
I also mean this:
Civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and fellow Congressional Black Caucus member Andre Carson (D-IN) related a particularly jarring encounter with a large crowd of protesters screaming "kill the bill"... and punctuating their chants with the word "nigger."
There are good and bad ways to address political opponents. There is nothing acceptable about racial and homophobic epithets and there is nothing acceptable about suggestions that those with whom you disagree are subhuman. This encourages violence. It encourages hate. It encourages a world that is bitter, dangerous and worse.
We can be better than this. We must be better than this. We don't have the luxury of using the rhetoric of the teabaggers.
And to be clear: I do not believe in passive resistance. I do not believe that violence is never the answer. I do believe, however, that to use the rhetoric of violence in this situation serves us badly. Let them be the barbarians and the sore losers. Let us be the ones sane and smart enough to do better.
We can be better than this.
UPDATE
See also Troutfishing's diary on this same subject.