If you ask my husband, he would tell you that I am not much frightened by anything except for flesh-eating zombies. But I bought a Zombie Survival Guide to help me with that.
But Rush Limbaugh scares me. Not that I am quaking in fear of him, but more like he is more foreign to me than many things on this earth. I do not understand him the powerful hate that he sends out to rides the airwaves.
I have never brought myself to listen much to a radio show of his. I admit, I do not go in for hate radio because they usually hate me.
What have I done to earn their consuming anger? I just want to live, love and I wish it for all people. I want justice, equality and a good movie. I like juju fruits, I have been known to make myself sticky from cotton candy and have even been known to have a shanty now and then.
I care about my country and my fellow citizens. I even care about citizens in other countries. I care about people. But he hates the likes of me so much that I believe he is committing treason to encourage the undermining of our democracy.
And some company pays him to do it. Day in and day out. And people seem to listen to him and act on his hateful encouragements.
Even if I do not agree with someone, I do not hate them. It is a strong emotion, hate and consuming. I believe that hate definitely eats a person up until there is nothing left. I do not want to live my life that way, as life is way too short and I fail to understand why anyone chooses that. Yes, chooses. It is not like someone bombed the city he lived in, murdered his family, invaded his country or that he was born a slave, is poor, discriminated against ... nothing like that. So where does this hate come from?
And now he is dreaming of riots in Denver. Slyly encouraging treason, the undermining of our voting system. Not against the government, but against fellow citizens. That was my take in Ohio as well.
Why is he not in jail for incitement?
I can understand that we Democrats might have something to protest. But to encourage a protest where it would lead to - chaos. And the ultimate fallout from his followers' instigations would not fall at their door, but at the Democrats door.
And some company pays him to do it.
Really, the man scares me because I can picture him as one of those people having a picnic while they lynch an African American person. Laughing, smoking a cigar and just enjoying the day surrounded by strange fruit.
I am an adult woman and his hate chills me. If that is his intention, he has succeeded.
Flesh-eating zombies have nothing on Rush Limbaugh. They are doing what they have to do to eat and survive. But if Rush Limbaugh was in a horror movie, I would like to think of him as Pin Head from Hellraiser. It gives me some comfort that after tearing a few million souls apart, just maybe he might be redeemed in a sequel.