Step step to Herr Glenn Beck.

I love how all these nutjobs  are expressing their alleged conservative rage at what a “nazi” Obama is by goose-stepping down the street in Washington when Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh tell them to.

I keep hearing that the “radical left” is in charge.  What radical left?  Those mincy-mouthed Democrats we elected to do something who haven’t done much of shit? Show me more than a handful of truly radical liberals who do more than just talk!

Obama’s not a citizen.  He’s Stalin.  He’s Lenin.  Hitler.  Satan.  Did you know the major news networks didn’t report on that rally?  Wait, they did.  Fox News (God bless ‘em) reported that they were the only ones who covered it.  Isn’t that false reporting?  Why are these masses feeding on false information, much of which is that the rest of us are fed on false information?  Of course the media is biased and stupid.  Might that not be part of the continued popularity of blogs?  Then you have this little woman who says, “I watch Fox News because I get both sides.  With them other networks, you only get one side, and that ain’t right.”

Seriously?

This is all disingenuous bullshit.  Few of these people are scared of what they say they’re scared of.  They’re scared of the black man in the White House and the Democratic Congress and then go to these pundits to learn what they can say they’re scared of on a banner in public without getting called a redneck.  “Nah, I ain’t scerreda Hussein Obama!  Imma scerreda socialism!”  Do you know what socialism is, why you think it’s so bad — and how far we are from it?

Wow.  If we really had the kind of government that these people are so damned scared we have, they would have all been arrested, shot, detailed, deported, etc.  Not that I think they should have been.  Certainly not.  I wish there’d been some “radical liberals” to shout back at them.  But what’s a radical liberal look like?

As one Republican Senator put it, Obama is the President.  We are Americans.  Don’t we want things to go well?  At the charge that Limbaugh levied, that he’s abandoning the party, this man responded, “I serve God, not Rush Limbaugh.”

Republicans and sane Conservatives everywhere are uncomfortable with these herds of angry reactionaries, and they should be.  While there are certainly irrational jerks on both sides of the aisle, there are also plenty of sensible people who really do want what is best for our country.  Is yelling lies and marching with racist banners about the President supposed to help our country?  (Is an angry blog post supposed to help?)

And I would say, if you love your country, stop wishing it ill and wasting your time with angry demonstrations that only hurt your own cause.  If you love your country, at least learn about what you’re afraid of.  If you’re really scared of socialism (for some reason) and bigger government, why does that require racists posters of the President and characterizations of him as an illegal immigrant?

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