re: #93 Locker

I’m not sure how it could have been a good thing. The main force of movement seem to all be built on fabrication and ignorance. Birthers, Truthers, Tax protests by people who think Obama raised their taxes when he really cut them… etc, etc.

It’s also very hard to ignore that this whole movement seemed like a direct response to Obama getting elected… as opposed to anything Obama actually did or did not do. That leads one to believe that the concentrated outrage is simply a few different groups of people united in their hatred of the current leadership… before it even got started.

Perhaps I can see it as a “good thing” as it really has seemed to shine a bit of a spotlight on some of this nonsense… that spotlight is also tending to reflect very brightly from the massive amounts of tinfoil being used by these folks as headwear.

When I say a good thing, I mean that it is good to see people out there willing to protest, when most just bitch and moan while sitting on the couch. I support protesters right to protest, basically, and I think we should have more of it from everybody, no matter where they may fall on the spectrum. I just wish it wasn’t just the people on the far-right or far-left who are always leading the charge. I wish it really was your everyday folks.