"the consequences of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party’s cynical racism strategy will live on."

[babylonsister]

Think you didn't already loathe the gop? Here's another reason...

http://www.politicususa.com/obama-hate-speech-surges-facebook.html

Obama Hate Speech Surges on Facebook

By: Jason Easley
July 26th, 2012


A Baylor University study has found that hate groups are using Facebook to spread their message, attract new followers, and launch racist attacks against Barack and Michelle Obama.

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The political question that arises from these findings is how much has the Republican Party’s race based anti-Obama strategy fueled the growth of these groups?

What the Republican Party did when they adopted the anti-Obama rhetoric of the racists was legitimize those beliefs and that language within their own party. GOP operatives understand that their best, and some would say only, chance of beating Obama is to polarize and divide the electorate as many ways as possible. The smaller and more divided the electorate, the more influential the united and vastly white Republican voting bloc will be on Election Day.

The Republican leadership embraced race based politics with open arms, and the result has been the creation of new a virulent strain of racism that has used talk radio and social media to warp a constituency that already disagreed with Obama into an angry mob motivated by racial prejudice.

Long after the Obama presidency has come and gone, the consequences of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party’s cynical racism strategy will live on.

[BlueToTheBone]

1. Shades of Rwanda come to mind. n/t

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

2. The only hope I have left is that the bigots are dying off. It'll take some time, but they'll

continue to die; at the same time, the country will become more diverse, younger and tolerant.