The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name - Hate Watch Part II

Two weeks ago, I said the Democrats' big problem was the hatred they feel for opposition.

Today, in the Dish, Andrew Sullivan reprints an email:

Little tiny incidents of dry leaves kept piling one atop the other: Wellstone, the hate Jeb and George W campaign, the Clintons, Leahy stopping the judges, the trashing of the cars outside the rally in Mass, the appearances every night of Begala and Carville as Dem spokesmen (ugly guys are as bad as ugly women), Belafonte trashing Powell, Barbra blaming Republicans for the Wellstone plane crash, the voter fraud around the country, and hundres of other little things created the fuel for a fire under the Republican base and lots of Independents. GWB came along with his blow torch campaigning and set that fuel off.

That, and the Keillor article, and the recently climb to celebrity status and credibility (among the left) of one "Granny D". Read this article only if you're up-to-date with the antidepressants. Especially noxious:

And the reptilism trickles down further, to the weaker minds listening to talk radio or silly enough to spend too much time watching cable television news -- people who buy the lies, who are simply suckered into forking over their own political best interests to the con artists who attempt to pick their pockets at the same moment they are pointing out others who, they say, are the real trouble makers. About 25 percent of our people are susceptible to this kind of con, and they then give us problems by standing against any reasonable reforms. They have been spiritually twisted by the cheap poison of a hundred Rush Limbaughs into the angry, unthinking agents of the superrich...

What we are seeing now from the far right is not conservatism at all. It is fascism: the imposition of a national and worldwide police state to enforce a narrow world view that enriches and empowers the few at the expense of the many, and that gives no respect or honor to other cultures, ways of living, or opinions.

Or this one:

Pull any contractor out of his white pickup truck, turn down the talk radio blaring from it, and ask him, "Government good, or government bad?"

His glazed eyes will widen. "Government bad!" he will say.

Ok, good. You found one to play with.

Where to start? It's almost too depressing to think that someone could get into her nineties as such an irredeemable idiot.

At any rate, Democrats - please, please, listen to this woman. Take her rants to heart. Take her, and Babs, and Alex Baldwin, and Garrison Keillor, and Molly Ivins and Paul Krugman and Sacks and Ted Rall and Michael Moore and Oliver Stone and Jessica Lange and Dan Savage as your gospel. Feel the hate. Let it drive you for this next two years.

And all of us "deluded morons" will meet you at the polls.

Posted by Mitch at November 11, 2002 08:15 AM