There's a big segment of the modern Right that really disturbs me. A few reasons why....

[YoungDemCA]

-"Kill him!" heard at a Sarah Palin rally in 2008

-My Tea Party-supporting relative, who said, with a big, excited grin about the mid-term 2010 elections, "It was a SLAUGHTER!"

-The spitting and use of the 'N-word" at African-American congresspeople

-The slogans like "Drill Baby Drill", "Stick To Your Guns", and others of that nature that accompanied unfortunate, shameful moments in American political history

-The maliciousness, sadism, mean-sprititedness, and anger of many on the far Right

-The cheering of the notion that people would be left in the streets to die without health care at a Republican debate

-The shameless hypocrisy of pretty much everyone I know of on the Right, personally and politically

-'Second Amendment remedies"


Let's face it. The ideology of the Right has poisoned the atmosphere of American politics. It has ruined relationships and friendships. It has made Americans more suspicious and less trustful of government-and of each other. It has destroyed American credibility on the international stage. And it has made a mockery of the relationship between the government and the people.

But not only that. We've reached the point where for the Right, it's all about winning (or not losing), never admitting that they're wrong, and taking great pleasure in humiliating or bullying people they disagree with. That's not politics-that''s just plain old petty bullshit.

Is there any way that this cancerous, bipolar, absolutist, arrogant, callous worldview can be stopped?

[kelly1mm]

1. Constitutionally???? - probably not. Political speech, what most of your examples above

are, are given the most deference.

If there is/was/will be a long term shift of attitudes then the right wing mindset will eventually be replaced with something (hopefully) more reasonable. However, I have my doubts. One of my first political memories was in the 1980 election and my father telling me that I was so lucky as the right wingers would die off by the time I could vote. By 1988 (when I could vote) he and my step mom had become right wingers themselves and have voted straight R ever since.