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iceweasel3/05/2010 3:39:39 am PST

re: #60 RogueOne

We obviously disagree. If there were no O’reilly, rush, coulter, beck or savage he would have still ended up snapping. There are a lot of people out here who are anti-government, some vitriolic about it, but I don’t think I’ve ever read anything where those people have suggested picking up a gun and killing people who disagree. Some people are just bad.

Yes, some people are just bad, and some people are just crazy. Neither of those is endemic to any party.
But there absolutely is a strain of eliminationist rhetoric that’s been mainstreamed on the right, and the crazy people are picking up on the messages that liberals are a ‘cancer’, or a ‘disease’, or ‘bloodsucking vampires’, all of which you can find Beck for example saying in just the last 9 months, and they’re taking those notions to their logical and literal conclusion.
It exists. Check out some of Dave Newiert’s work on eliminativism on the right, please, he’s been covering it for ten years.