RIGHT WING WANTS TO DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY

[HowHasItComeToThis]

VISIT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/opinion/04blow.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Pitchforks and Pistols
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: April 3, 2009

At first, it was entertaining — just harmless, hotheaded expostulation. Of course, there were the garbled facts, twisted logic and veiled hate speech. But what did I expect, fair and balanced? It was like walking through an ideological house of mirrors. The distortions can be mildly amusing at first, but if I stay too long it makes me sick.

But, it’s not all just harmless talk. For some, their disaffection has hardened into something more dark and dangerous. They’re talking about a revolution.

Some simply lace their unscrupulous screeds with loaded language about the fall of the Republic. We have to “rise up” and “take back our country.” Others have been much more explicit.

[leftstreet]

1. NOT UNTIL THEY GET BACK IN POWER n/t

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. HOPE SO

[ShortnFiery]

8. + the right wingers of our beloved party a. k. a. The Blue Dogs = Pro-corporate Chicken-hawks. nt

[Mari333]

10. bingo. nt

[cali]

3. jeez. talk about hysterical and over the top.

[lamp_shade]

4. ALL OF YOU... QUIT YELLING !!!

[leftstreet]

5. BUT IT'S FUN!!111!!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

7. i hATE the ShiFT KeY

[Junkdrawer]

6. Today, a wingnut used an AK-47 and killed 3 police officers in my home town....

From the cited aticle...

...

At the same time, the unrelenting meme being pushed by the right that Obama will mount an assault on the Second Amendment has helped fuel the panic buying of firearms. According to the F.B.I., there have been 1.2 million more requests for background checks of potential gun buyers from November to February than there were in the same four months last year. That’s 5.5 million requests altogether over that period; more than the number of people living in Bachmann’s Minnesota.

Coincidence? Maybe. Just posturing? Hopefully. But it all gives me a really bad feeling.

[lpbk2713]

9. ... if given the chance.

And that's where message boards like DU come in.

[Tutankhamun]

11. I think there is an element on the RW that

is just trying to inspire some lunatic to violence. The RWers have little to celebrate these days.

All of this loaded language about "rising up," etc. is a dog whistle for "lone nut" types.