It's the amount of anger in this election season that's so scary. We've finally seen first-hand the kind of emotions that produce dictators of all stripes as well as wars of genocide and mass destruction!
I'm talking about the McCain-Palin rallies, of course, the ones in which they inflame their audience by accusing Obama of "palling around with terrorists." This has resulted in cries of "traitor," "terrorist," and most unbelievably of all, "Kill him!"
The amount of passion behind McCain voters cannot be underestimated. Consider this example published on postsecret.blogspot.com (October 18, 2008): pictures of JKF, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy—all with X's over their faces!—sitting beside a larger images of Barack Obama surrounded by the words, "It's only a matter of time!"
Some of my closest friends oppose Obama. Because the topic is so sensitive, we don't talk about him directly, but it obviously goes beyond dislike. They're passionate. They hate him. Frankly, it's hard to understand why they even continue to talk to me. That's how deep the emotions are runing in this campaign!
Such otherwise unexplainable emotion can be traced back to childhood humiliations for not being good enough. While that makes it understandable perhaps, it doesn't soften the blows that may yet land on me and others or stop the blood thirst that leads to war.
We've met the enemy all right. They're in our midst. We meet them everyday on every street in America!
I'm talking about the McCain-Palin rallies, of course, the ones in which they inflame their audience by accusing Obama of "palling around with terrorists." This has resulted in cries of "traitor," "terrorist," and most unbelievably of all, "Kill him!"
The amount of passion behind McCain voters cannot be underestimated. Consider this example published on postsecret.blogspot.com (October 18, 2008): pictures of JKF, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy—all with X's over their faces!—sitting beside a larger images of Barack Obama surrounded by the words, "It's only a matter of time!"
Some of my closest friends oppose Obama. Because the topic is so sensitive, we don't talk about him directly, but it obviously goes beyond dislike. They're passionate. They hate him. Frankly, it's hard to understand why they even continue to talk to me. That's how deep the emotions are runing in this campaign!
Such otherwise unexplainable emotion can be traced back to childhood humiliations for not being good enough. While that makes it understandable perhaps, it doesn't soften the blows that may yet land on me and others or stop the blood thirst that leads to war.
We've met the enemy all right. They're in our midst. We meet them everyday on every street in America!
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