Comments | judiang: More food for thought

judiang

More food for thought

Aug 17, 2009 16:32

Last night on AIM, I was livid at the rumors that the White House was expected to back away from a public option on the health care debate. I lamented how MSM was catering to the extreme right and allowing the debate to be hijacked by paranoid apocalyptic people who essentially couldn't stand it that a black man was president. It was remarked ( Read more... )

racism

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drake57 August 17 2009, 21:40:52 UTC

Oh the rage is racist,the bigots wrap their hate around some invented controversy and run with it, throwing gas on the simmering bonfire of racism.

judiang August 19 2009, 00:42:43 UTC

Sigh. And they'd rather die themselves rather than think somebody else might get something they believe they don't deserve.

elsaf August 17 2009, 21:53:11 UTC

When they impeached Clinton, they knew from the beginning they didn't have the votes to convict him. It was just a strategy to completely derail his agenda (which is the same thing that's going on now with Obama ( ... )

judiang August 19 2009, 00:37:33 UTC

I hear what you're saying. The bottom line to the insurance companies is money. But not to the hysterical paranoids at the town hall meetings with their mob mentality attempting to be the final arbiters of truth, justice and the American way. Yes, the bill will be ironed out later by rational minds. But other rational minds should state in the media, in the House, in the Senate, everywhere, that this behavior is unacceptable. They cannot go unchecked. IMHO, it would be a big mistake to ignore them as just marginalized kooks. Their latest brilliant idea is to bring guns and rifles to public gatherings where the President's venue is nearby and it's all legal. Dangerous? Pretty much.

antikythera August 17 2009, 22:07:54 UTC

The Nazi party relied on the general public's willingness to be duped into accepting government-sanctioned hatred. That's what the Republicans are banking on now, and they're comparing Obama to Hitler?

I never thought the first black president would have an easy job, but I really thought his opposition would be more blatant racism and not racism disguised as blatant stupidity.

judiang August 19 2009, 00:08:44 UTC

I never thought the first black president would have an easy job, but I really thought his opposition would be more blatant racism and not racism disguised as blatant stupidity.

No, because things have shifted here such that blatant racism and crude bigotry is socially unacceptable. Everybody gets that burning crosses, lynching and hosing people down in the street is bad. Today except for the openly proud bigot, the average person would never think he's racist if even his words and deeds contribute to the same result. So it has to be disguised as something else. Except when that person starts screaming hysterically about an issue that in his heart is not the real issue, IT SHOWS.

alryssa August 18 2009, 03:50:16 UTC

I think the mainstream media really needs to get a collective slap upside the head for giving these idiots far, FAR more attention than they deserve, and making it seem like 75% of the country is somehow up in arms, when it's more likely just a very, very small percentage - and a dwindling one at that. They're helping to whip these crazies into a frenzy, in an era of soundbites and sensationalism, and the GOP are quite adept at fanning those psychological flames with a nudge and a wink, and turning the other cheek to people like Limbaugh and Beck, and just standing back to watch the fallout.

It just kind of makes me sick that none of the GOP seem to be bothering to say 'This is going too far,' even when someone shows up at a town hall with a gun strapped to their leg. You can bet your ass if that happened within 20 miles of the last President, they'd be hauled off to detention. Now these crazy people are being hailed as heroes of some kind of vague revolution.

Silence is consent, motherfuckers.

judiang August 18 2009, 23:51:47 UTC

It just kind of makes me sick that none of the GOP seem to be bothering to say 'This is going too far,' even when someone shows up at a town hall with a gun strapped to their leg

Oh yes, they've been totally cowered. There aren't any moderates left in the party and the independents fled. Those left who have any sense are too terrified to say anything for fear of not getting reelected. The DEMS really need to send their attack dogs and rapid response teams out and saturate the media to counter this noise.