Poll dancing

[pasithea]

Yeesh. As McCain slips in the polls, the right wing is getting exponentially more hateful in their campaigns. More and more, their hate and racism is rearing its ugly head as they keep trying to assert Obama is a muslim. They're so angry that Obama has not played the race card. They were counting on being able to scream about that and mask their racism but he hasn't and as their guy slips in the polls, so too does their mask begin to slip and we see the true ugly face of america behind it.

I wonder how long it will be before they start blithering about succession.

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[kynn.livejournal.com]

I wonder how long it will be before they start blithering about succession.

Maybe if the First Dude started talking about his political affiliations...

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Seriously, why that isn't a more often brought up issue I don't know. Then again maybe the news media just sees Alaskan sucessionism as cute. Quaint and folksy just like Sarah.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

I tend to see it more as psychotic and retarded, like the Bund...

[paka.livejournal.com]

start blithering about succession.

I feel sort of embarrassed about kinda wishing they would. You know, they could make their own Jesusland in the southeast, or something, and they could choke themselves on lousy environmental policy and poverty and having nothing even vaguely like enough DOT funds or whatever, and they wouldn't be a tax burden to the rest of the country. But it is never that simple and besides, some good people would probably be stuck with them doing that (as opposed to the way the same good people are screwed now).

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

I don't worry about secession.

Here's what will happen. The right wingers will blame ACORN and refuse to accept the legitimacy of Obama as president, even if he wins by a landslide, which I expect him to do at this point. The fury being whipped up by the Republicans, mixed with economic crises that Bush caused, is going to be blamed 100% on Obama during his first term. Even if Obama is successful, 80% of the country will love him, 20% will want him dead, and 1% of those will act. The Rush Limbaughs and Ann Coulters will openly call for Obama's assasination, if they're not already doing so by the election.

The federal government will be regarded by conservatives as the implacable enemy, the way it was in the 90s under Clinton. There will be many more Oklahoma City bombings if nothing else. The militias will come back with a vengeance. They were shooting solely at Mexicans for the last few years, they're going to go back to shooting at FBI agents.

The GOP is inevitably morphing into a white supremacist organization.

I hope Obama has good Secret Service protection, and that his Secret Service crew are not Republicans.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Rush Limbaugh can call for his followers to kill liberals and it will be laughed off by law enforcement, the majority of whom listen to him and will want to do the same.

The right wing is becoming a cornered, vicious animal right now. I am very very worried.

[rigelkitty.livejournal.com]

Precluding this statement by saying that I definitely don't want this to happen, but I see the chances of an assasination attempt if Obama wins, before or after inauguration, being nonzero. I agree that the Secret Service will be tested like they've never been before.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

I don't want it to happen either, hell, it's my worst nightmare. It's SUCH a nightmare that nobody really talks about it, both for fear of becoming a suspect or for fear of causing it to happen. But everyone knows it's a possibility. There's a lot of crazy fucks out there being whipped into a frenzy. It just takes one.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

The sheep can be lead away from the slaughter too.

As soon as the election is past, they'll drop that tone as fast as possible. Think about how bad it would be for the Republicans with the House, Senate, and Presidency going to the democrats, Biden as president, and the sympathy of the nation for Obama.

I've spent the past 8 years advising people on our side that killing Bush would be the stupidest possible thing they could do. You can bet there's at least one person in the right wing noise machine who's also smart enough to come to the same conclusion.

The next few weeks will be a dangerous time for Mr. Obama but after the elections, they'll turn quickly to curb their rabid dogs.

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

The Southeast has excellent weather. They don't deserve it. They can have Alaska, Utah, the Dakotas, and maybe tornado alley since they're in such high concentration there anyway.

[yetanotherbob.livejournal.com]

Interesting data point.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

I fear that might be too little, too late. We are dealing with people who react violently to change.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

The problem is it's rapidly moving out of the ability of the Republican leadership to control. Lynch mobs are nonrational. We are dealing with lizard brain stuff here.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

But lizard-brains are also easily distracted. It's like Judo. You don't have to stop their force, just re-direct it into something they can't _do_ anything about. The election in Ukraine would do nicely. Stoke up those old soviet fears, invoke the name of Saint Reagan and suddenly their racism is nationalism and they're voting for McCain out of fear of 'the commies'