With Birthers, people with Obama as Hitler posters, Death panelers, people with rifles, someone shouting Heil Hitler....

Seriously, what the Hell is going on here?

::)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08

America has always had a surplus of idiots.  Then again, that's probably true of a lot of countries.

America has always had a surplus of idiots.  Then again, that's probably true of a lot of countries.


I agree on both counts.  However, the town halls are demonstrative of a uniquely American pathology exacerbated by the right-wing: An irrational fear of government,* an obsession with guns, a penchant for ignorant trash-talk, and the unmeetable need to be a rogue conformist.  You find one or more of the aforementioned in other cultures, but only in America are all so comorbid. 

*Of course, there are always rational reasons to fear government; however, the ones we see at the town meetings are irrational.

:D

Lunacy!


I agree, now more than ever I am happy to be Canadian.

::)

Seriously, what the Hell is going on here?


It's like Cindy Sheehan and company, but on the right.  Idiocy and fanaticism are the only truly bipartisan phenomena.

With Birthers, people with Obama as Hitler posters, Death panelers, people with rifles, someone shouting Heil Hitler....

Seriously, what the Hell is going on here?

::)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08


Lunacy!

There are just stupid people.

It gets even better....

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Finger+Bite+Victim+at+Town+Hall&btnG=Search&meta=

What the ******* **** is going on here?  >:(

It gets even better....

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Finger+Bite+Victim+at+Town+Hall&btnG=Search&meta=

What the ******* **** is going on here?   >:(


We're on the brink of Civil War, that's whats happening.

We're on the brink of Civil War, that's whats happening.


I hope that is not the case.

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I hope that is not the case.

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There are very deep divisions in this coutntry, amongst liberals, conservatives, libertarians and those somewhere in between, and they've only gotten deeper with time, and I think they're going to keep getting on deeper until they hit bottom--Till we've come to the depth of division over which way this country should go. You've seen what issues such as abortion have driven people to do. I don't think a Civil War will happen tomorrow, or a year from now; Give it within the next 30 years. We're adding more and more debt on as time goes by, who will pay that debt? Will they be so willing or happy to pay it? There is a breaking point for all these issues, I think it's going to be bit sometime in the next few decades.

I don't think the divisions are as deep as that within the general public, just on the fringes, and now especially on the fringe right.  The question is, what will the center do?  The right is furious that Obama won the election and is doing everything it can to discredit him and inflame the center with lies, distortions, and fears.  So this is about much more than policy disputes.  Time will tell.

How about the one where they were shouting down a woman with two terminal autoimmune diseases who was it a wheelchair? 

Then they had that scholar on camera bellowing, "Now some disabled woman in a wheelchair has more rights than I do!"

WTF is wrong with my country?  It's SICK!

>:(

How about the one where they were shouting down a woman with two terminal autoimmune diseases who was it a wheelchair? 

Then they had that scholar on camera bellowing, "Now some disabled woman in a wheelchair has more rights than I do!"

WTF is wrong with my country?  It's SICK!

>:(


WTF?

This is really sick!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p40othGJwhI

>:(

This is really sick!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p40othGJwhI

>:(


Sick, but not surprising.(sadly)