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A Mom Anon11/10/2012 5:18:34 am PST

re: #226 watching you tiny alien kittens are

It’s going to be difficult because at the very heart of all this is Fear. There are a fair number of people who are just scared to death and it wasn’t that hard to do it because of,IMO,two things:

1)9/11/01. I live in a very conservative area,but before 9/11 you could talk to conservatives and find common ground. Here in GA,in less than two months after that day,the local GOP(with help from Ralph Fucking Reed and Newt)began sowing seeds of hatred and mistrust. Those ads against Max Cleland were a drop in the bucket. It’s become insanely ridiculous now. I wish more than almost anything I could come up with a way to fight this,but I have no clue.

2)The financial crisis. Starting in 2008,lots of people began losing their jobs and homes. Fear. As that situation worsened,it was easy to take advantage of their fear and uncertainty.

Fox and the GOP,Rush,Ingraham,Boortz,Beck,the whole lot of ‘em,know precisely what they’re doing. They’ve been allowed to do all this unchallenged(for all practical purposes)for so long I am not sure how to begin undoing the damage. THIS is what I have a very difficult time forgiving the right wing for. This shit has destroyed families and communities,and that makes us weaker as a country. We are really nothing without each other,that U in USA is supposed to be what makes us “exceptional”. We are too strong to be torn apart from the outside,but no nation is too strong to keep from being destroyed from within. If this shit keeps up,that’s where we’re headed.