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How can Obama be a Nazi Communist?
There is a real infectious, raving madness abroad in the country today. I am mystified by the intensity of it, the amount of press and pundit attention it is getting and the absence of any logic or evidence behind it. Of course the behavior of Fox News, Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, etc, etc, who have been gleefully fanning the flames, is unconscionable. The thought that ratings/dollars may be the big motivator for these demagogues is enough to make one vomit. I have been monitoring some of the Right Wing blogs just to see if I could make any sense of at least what they are saying to each other. Most of the comments consist of a lot of hyperventilated rage and ranting. They are even raising, from its grave, the antique specter of The Red Menace! It is scary. It is even scarier when it is impossible to verify anything they are claiming -- especially for Obama. Nearly every wild assertion they make does not check out on any reliable site, like Snopes.com or the Annenberg Fact Check site. They must realize at some level deep in their minds that there is no rational basis for what they are raging over. These people are hyping each other up and up and up in an ever increasing gyre of irrational hatred and violence. I really expect them soon to move from vocalizations in English sentences into a mutually reinforced nonsense echolalia or a speaking in tongues. I don't know where it will all end. I suppose it all could end in riots, beatings, even assassinations and complete civil breakdown. This hysteria must be bringing every latent (and not so latent) violent psychotic out of the woodwork like roaches after the honey pot has been spilled. My brother in Iowa said that his Representative had to be flanked by two large police officers during one town meeting, he was so fearful of the brownshirts actually rushing the stage and physically assaulting him. This phenomenon has been explained and predicted by social scientists as largely the product of the displaced anger and frustration resulting from the economic uncertainty of our present days after Bush left Obama with that great steaming pile of deregulated excrement. That, along with the really obvious racism that is now spilling over, is bringing things to a critical mass in many parts of the country. I'm afraid my state of Missouri is one. It is certainly one of the most racist places I have ever lived - at any time. This is interesting: I have been dropping a well placed comment or two in a few carefully chosen Right Wing blogs, just to see if there was any way to somehow short-circuit all the hyperventilation. The results are pretty amazing in their consistency. My posts are met initially with a flurry of virulent personal insults and threats based largely on their projections and misreadings of what I actually said. After a couple of days, I select one or two of the most glaring responses to blast out of the water. Then silence. I cannot tell you how many of their blog comment pages I have stopped cold that way. I don't think I am flattering myself. I wish I could convince a few of my progressive friends to have a go at this strategy as well. It really doesn’t take all that much time. These brutish people are bullies at heart and, like all bullies, they are basically cowards who cannot stand up to any reasoned criticism that calls them out. I am always superficially civil and only attack in an indirect way through humor, satire, irony and hyperbole. Unlike my interlocutors, I never attack any critic (or his mother) directly. This tactic drives them crazy. These Right Wingers primarily network and reinforce each other over the Internet. I am convinced we could take the wind out of this movement just by attacking their websites—just that alone. It would take a surprisingly few number of people to bring this movement to its knees. Of course a well-place LTTE from time to time wouldn’t hurt either. My friends would rather spend their time writing their congressmen. From my past experience, that seems like a much bigger waste of time. Actually, I do write and petition my congressmen, regularly—but only out of a habitual commitment to the absurd. Peace,
 Robert Boldt an editor of MWC News, is a freelance film/video producer living in Jefferson City, Missouri. He is active in local politics, worked on the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns and is a cofounder of The White Rose Collective. Articles by Bob Boldt at MWC News http://mwcnews.net/bob-boldt |
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