Reply #72: Well, think of it this way.

[rockymountaindem]

Half of people did not vote. Half of those who did vote voted for Kerry. That leaves us with 25% of the population who voted for Bush (approx. I think the real figure was 28%)

Of those, let's assume half are really into "hate radio" and would act on any incitement to violence. That leaves us with between 12.5 and 14 percent of the population. Lots of Bush voters would probably say either "I held my nose voting for him, no way I'm going to kill or risk being killed for him" or "I love Bush, but I'm not going to kill other Americans, especially women and children".

The other day when someone posted a link to a TS thread over at Free Republic, someone there had posted that they hoped God would destroy America. Someone else quickly told that hoser to "go stand over there with Osama". Most people aren't under the hate radio spell. Even a majority of those who are wouldn't kill someone. If you want to be worried about splinter groups or crazed loners, that's one thing. There are plenty of those all over the place. But fretting over half of the country deciding to massacre the other half sounds like misplaced energy to me.