On one of my usual strolls through the blogosphere, I had an interesting exchange with a republican recently.
Now I have long suspected that the "average" republican is probably not unlike me---your average democrat. I mean looking at this logically, Both parties are embarrassed by their respective whack jobs. Those small minorities do not represent ALL of the rest of us."
And just that quickly, other positive comments were posted and I thought wow, you know Obama is right, compromise IS possible if you can get the reasonable people talking to one another without the stress of extremism. Comprimise is possible if you also remove the blatant racism.
Now I don't know about you, but when I see a bunch of riled up rednecks in an all-white group, some carrying guns, hooping, hollering, and waving rebel flags as they hold up signs plastered with Jim Crow-esque images of our African American president, and others signs implying all non-christians should be dead or in hell.......well, I don't see Washington DC in 2009 America, I see 1960's Missippi.
Yes, I'm a democrat and I'm telling you
NONE of these signs look like something my republican father or my friends and neighbors would EVER carry. How about you? I didn't think so. These people are NOT representative of America, nor are they representative of the average republican either.
These are people that don't enjoy being intellectuals, and in fact villify people that are "too smart" as
the enemy and
not to be trusted. They glory in stupidity, and don't mind one bit if their racist ideals show through their rhetoric.
They enjoy the role of political "thugs", and are
purposely intimidating to their opposition or critics. Just look at this guy and what he did while attending a tea party event--just outside the congressman's office is Salisbury, Maryland, he "hung the congressman in effigy" in the town that saw Maryland's last lynching in 1930. Is THIS the kind of person YOU want running the government? And while the mannequin was white, what kind of message do you think he was really sending here?
These folks are bigots. These are the people that daydream of having a "new civil war" to fight, where they live in their survivalist compounds shooting at Jews, blacks, gays, democrats, race-mixers, whoever, as long as they get to USE those guns they tote around. Most of them have a southern accent, and have ZERO black friends. Most of these people cannot STAND that there is a black democrat in the White House, and would hate Obama even if God himself came down and gave Obama his personal seal of approval. These people know almost NOTHING about the issues they claim to be fighting against, and ignore any evidence contrary to what they WANT to believe. They lie and say we aren't bigots, we have people of all races with us....uh-huh. Not according to these videos you don't.
Well here, see for yourself:
And take a look at this if you need further proof of their bullying. These people claim to be protesting for the protection of our constitutional rights, yet where was their respect for the rights of the
ONE old man who wanted to hold
HIS sign? I'll tell you where...
they knocked him to the ground. How shameful that this old man had to have the police escort him to carry his sign becaue it was unsafe for him to walk among these lunatics.
That could have been any one of our grandparents. These fools want to run the country?
NO WAY.
NOW THAT is scary.
It's time for the "good" republicans to stand up and tell their leaders to stop playing to these lunatics, and to get busy working with the democrats to get things done. If they won't listen, then vote them out or vote democrat. Don't let these racist bullies take you down with them.
I have a lot more info to share, but will have to do a part 2 on it....the family calls....