DKos fears increased right-wing violence should Dem’s win presidency
From someone called MeteorBlades at the Daily Kos:
Three bloggers - digby at Hullabaloo, David Neiwart at Orcinus and Rick Perlstein at the Campaign for America’s Future - have recently been discussing a subject that needs a good deal more attention: the potential for outbreaks of rightwing violence if the Republicans, who have embraced outrageously violent talk in many forums, are booted out of power come November 2008.
Since 9/11, rightwing violence has gotten little media attention. Not because there hasn’t been any. For instance, there was the bomb found April 25 at the Austin Women’s Health Center in Austin, Texas. It didn’t explode.
Of course, they are conveniently ignoring the left-wing violence that has occurred over the last seven years of the Bush administration. Some examples:
- Shots fired into Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters
- Swastika burned into the grass lawn of a Bush/Cheney supporter
- Campaign signs chainsawed
- Earth Liberation Front members plead guilty to 2001 fire bombing
- Animal Liberation Front attack on University of Iowa lab
Those links took me maybe 15 minutes to come up with. Who knows how many more could I have found? But, let’s continue with the DKos’ worrying. From somebody called digby at Hullabaloo:
I predict that we are going to see a remarkable resurgence of rightwing violence if the Democrats take full control of the government. These people are always surprisingly cooperative when the government is run by Republicans and then rediscover their “anti-government” beliefs when Democrats share or dominate the government. I can’t imagine why that would be.
We will also, sadly, see veterans involved in this. Aside from the PTSD they will come home to a world that isn’t very understanding. How could we be? They’ve been in hell. I suspect that some of them will be attracted to the rightwing militia (or worse) unless the government makes some very aggressive moves to help these people out and provide every kind of counselling and support they can think of. The last thing we need are hardened Iraq veterans finding solace with the rightwing terrorists.
Wow, that last paragraph really pissed me off. How patronizing can you be? According to digby, if you are a soldier with PTSD, you are more likely to become a right-wing terrorist. Of course, there’s no chance you would actually become a nutjob on the left side of the street, is there?
Here’s the bottom line - there’s nut cases on both sides of the political spectrum. While a Democratic presidential win may give the right-wing crazies more to talk about, it won’t suppress the weirdos on the left either.
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That is just bizarre…
Insulting and bizarre…