The message was clear. The sign carried by a 51-year-old man last week outside a raucous town hall meeting on healthcare in Hagerstown, Maryland, read "Death to Obama". Just to emphasise his point, a second message was also scrawled on the cardboard placard. "Death to Obama, Michelle and 2 stupid kids," it stated.
Welcome to the disturbing new face of the radical right in the United States. Across the country, extremism is surging, inflamed by conservative talkshow hosts, encouraged by Republican leaders and propagating a series of wild conspiracy theories. Many fear it might end in tragedy.
Obama has been labelled as a threat to democracy and an anti-white racist by senior presenters on the TV channel Fox News. Republicans, seizing on the fierce debate over Obama's plans to reform healthcare, have called him a socialist who plans "death panels" for the elderly. Rumours have circulated that Obama was not born in the US and that he plans to ban firearms. Despite having no basis in fact, they have become widely believed. A recent poll in Virginia showed only 53% of voters believed Obama was born in the US. In neighbouring North Carolina, 54% of voters shared that opinion.
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Alans flock are at it again. Never a day goes by without deception and stupidity from the conservative right. Its like one massive cesspool of stupidity and corruption.
The health insurances buy out the Republican senators (theyre the cheapest and the dirtiest ((yet pretend to be the moral high ground of humanity))), and the senators go lie to their extremely gullible conservative flock... who jump to the banner.
We see this tactic over and over and over again. Its pretty sick and I am so glad I in no way admire the last couple of generations of Republicans. You have to be pretty blind not to see their corruption.