This hate from the right goes back 50 years. Check this out:

[proud2BlibKansan]

[villager]

1. Yet we still want to be "bipartisan" with them...

n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Stupid, isn't it?

When will they ever learn?

[EFerrari]

3. My mom was afraid for him to go to Dallas.

And that was decades before we knew about other near misses he'd had. But like today, it was in the air.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I had no idea how much they hated him until he was dead

Then a few of our neighbors made some comments and 10 year old me was just crushed. I can still remember how very painful it was.

[EFerrari]

6. My mom and grandmother used to talk about it over my head

even before he was elected, iirc.

[krispos42]

5. Good find! n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Facebook

:)

[krispos42]

8. Put it in my sigline.

The internet destroyed the memory hole, yes?

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. That's a good one too

We will never forget.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. John Birch society -- still around today.

I was in elementary school when JFK was killed. It was a shock that we have never, ever gotten over as a country.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Me too

The wound is still fresh. Hard to believe it's been nearly 50 years.

[villager]

13. The John Birchers are called "GOP Centrists" now...

n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. Ain't that the truth

[Liquorice]

11. They hated FDR too and behaved the same way. The right wing has always been this way. nt

[jeff47]

15. Goes back much further than that

1856: A right-wing US Congressman beats a US senator with his cane.
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm

(Keep in mind the Republican party were the liberals in 1856)

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Yes I should have remembered that

Thanks