This is much more than just hate talk. There is an underlying current of racism in right-wing world. They may deny racism in public but when I read the emails from my family and others from the right, it is full of overt racism. They just cant handle a non-white person in the White House and it is driving them nuts.

Why doesn't anyone ever come to Florida? I always have to miss all the good stuff.

You want to see how ugly it can get, hop over to Kos and see what the guy, who was seen carrying the big gun and the hand gun, has to say about Obama. It will send cold chills down your spine. Basically the guy says he doesn't care how god does it, he just wants him to take Obama's life.

The fact that this book is so in tune with what the MSM tells us is going on right now, and so prescient, could this be due to some connections of the author, or just a wild coincidence?

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Wish I could be there.

baby jesus would be all over this event,

but baby jesus is busy working on world disasters and whispering in Sarah's ear.

Bravo and well done David. Clear. Easy listening, and undeniable (For rational folks that is).
Seriously... excellently done. Thank-you.

Why don't we call it what it is.....white trash-ism or stupid people-ism

...How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

For the first time this decade, however, such rhetoric fell flat with the voting public. Polls taken in the wake of the McCain campaign's incendiary appeals made clear that, while such talk clearly energized his Republican base, it turned off independent and undecided voters. What particularly bothered voters was not just the rhetoric and its failure to address the serious issues before them (particularly the faltering economy), but the ugly behavior that emanated from it: the threats and shouts of "terrorist" during Republican rallies, the open expressions of racism outside them.

The McCain campaign scaled back its rhetoric; but the forces unleashed were not so easy to put back in a bottle. News reports rolled in of ugly incidents of vandalism, threats, and other acts of intimidation directed at Obama supporters. One McCain campaign worker even tried to claim she had been robbed and assaulted by a black Obama supporter who carved a `B" into her cheek with a knife, and campaign officials ran to promote this racially incendiary tale to the press; a day later, she admitted that it was all a hoax.

This is the real danger of para-fascism: once certain forces are unleashed, they often take on a life of their own and prove impossible to contain. If enough of the natural barriers that keep fascism at bay in a democratic society break down, then the half-formed Hologram of fascism takes on substance and becomes the real thing. This is the danger movement conservatism has unleashed on America.

As America moves forward amid the reality of a President Obama, it may want to brace itself for a spate of domestic terrorism and homegrown violence. Because even before Obama's election, it was clear that some of the more violence-prone sectors of the Far Right were winding themselves up for just such an eventuality.

The prospect of an Obama presidency sent the racist Right into a frenzy as early as June 2007, when a Klan leader from Indiana named Ray Larsen promised that he would be assassinated before taking office. Things reached a fever pitch by the summer of 2008. On the Web, white supremacists were speculating wildly about what it meant to their movement.

Three white supremacists, reportedly plotting to assassinate Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August, were caught a week before (though they were not charged with engaging in the plot). A week before the election, two neo Nazi skinheads were arrested in Tennessee, charged with plotting to assassinate Obama at the culmination of a killing spree in which 102 black people were to be killed.

Earlier that summer, a 60-year-old militiaman named Bradley T. Kahle of Troutville, Pennsylvania, was arrested along with four other Patriots for plotting to attack local government buildings. The FBI confiscated hundreds of weapons, including hunting rifles, cannons, homemade bombs, and rudimentary rockets. Before the bust, Kahle told undercover agents "words to the effect of, that `if Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, get elected, hopefully they will get assassinated, if not they will disarm the country and we will have a civil war," according to their arrest affidavit.
--David Neiwert (chap.7 pp.140-141)

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I had a lengthy conversation with one of my Republican friends just yesterday. The main topic of our chat was health care reform. I first had to remind my friend of my pacifism--he knows that I do not appreciate hearing hateful talk about anyone, regardless of party affiliation, etc.--because he started our conversation with disparaging remarks about Obama and 'the Democrats' who are shoving cost-prohibitive health care down our throats.

Once I redirected his bile, he started to regurgitate insupportable talking points. I began asking him in-depth questions about each of his points--questions that required that he validate each point and provide verifiable facts in support of his assertions. He quite rapidly devolved into, "Well, I'm not much of a debater... I just know this is what I believe."

Then, I switched gears and asked him what kind of plan he would like to see implemented. He had no idea what reforms have been promoted thus far, and could not offer any suggestions of his own. After a few moments of silence, he asserted that he's "just tired of big government."

The Corporatists are keenly aware of the efficacy of targeting their audiences' baser emotions. They know how to use hateful propaganda to further their goals and to entrench their supporters in solid opposition to whatever group is perceived as the most threatening.

It doesn't help our species to point out that this is fascism, or to make any other pejorative observations about this pathetic group of fearful and hateful human beings. It is up to those of us who are committed to peace and spiritual progress to find ways to break through the bigotry, and to communicate effectively. God knows the Eliminationists are not going to make this effort.

I'm not saying we should ignore the hatemongers, or allow them to continue to spill their bile. Barney Franks recently illustrated how to actively refute some of the most ridiculous assertions. We have had some commendable success in addressing Glenn Beck's most recent gradoo. But, these are small, isolated victories, and we cannot rest. As frustrating as it often is, WE must take the high road, and do the hard work required to get our species to the other side of this abyss.