Reading what I have the past couple days, and seeing the reports that even CBS News can't avoid, I am truly getting scared about what's happening in this country. It seems to me that HCR passage is getting exploited by certain unsavory elements as a pretext....
and this pretext, in their warped minds, may be a pretext for civil war. A "Second Civil War", which in my view is the most extreme right-winger's wet dream.
Think of how they've whipped themselves into a frenzy, aided and abetted by the media's rabble rowsers such as Glenn Beck and Hannity/Limbaugh....
- They fear a black president, and that they've "lost their country" that they want to "take back".
- They are fearing that Obama wants to take their guns away even though there has been no basis upon which they have this paranoid belief. This morning's diary that showed a letter in which it was being advocated to stockpile weapons at home was very disturbing.
- They continue with the meme that what is happening with HCR and other Obama policies is "socialism", "communism" and "fascism", all at the same time.
- The teabaggers who promote this apocalyptic vision of the liberals are profoundly and easily swayed by demagogues within their movement and in the media due to a void of brain matter between their ears, and just basic ignorance and fear.
The trend with the extreme right is getting to the point of no return. The Republican Party is now becoming the party of fascists, racists, and conspiracy nuts. They don't condone strongly enough the increasing threats of violence that is coming out of their extreme base. Boner's statement in the past day has no sincerity behind it, and how did his tone of voice help matters on the floor of the House when he yelled "Hell No!" in his now-infamous statement during Sunday's floor debate? His and other GOP rhetoric is fanning the flames.
The Republican Party has created an incendiary environment in which demagogues and thugs can exploit the fears of their masses. In my gut, I think they are really pining for an armed insurrection in this country, a "Second Civil War" which, unlike the first one, would be an armed insurgency a-la Iraq of the past several years.
If that's what they truly want, and they get organized, let's just hope that the FBI and Homeland Security can protect the rest of us against these insurgents, these domestic terrorists.