When to the total of Stupidity = Violence.

[Javaman]

(this was a response to another post, but I am choosing to post it on it's own as a continuation of an original post I put up yesterday)

Original post:

The sum result of stupidity...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8005009

I wonder sometimes if I'm insightfully hopeful or blinded by historic ignorance.

How did we get to where we are today?

The below the surface simmering violence being displayed via these passive aggressive techniques the fringe right are using to intimidate, didn't come from out of the blue.

Both our revolution and civil wars were decades in coming. One looks back at the trends and paths that were taken, and it's easy, via 20/20 hide-sight, to see the ultimate conclusion.

Could our current mess be something made of recent events in history? Was all of this put into motion via the republican take over of our national psyche? The slide to the right regarding civil, human and basic rights over these past 30 years could easily be used as an example of the cause. Or could it go much deeper than that?

Has this trend started in the civil rights era? Did the marches of MLK, Malcom X, etc, sow the seeds of hatred being displayed by the right? Where those events the basis for their anger?

Or do we go back to the red scares of the 30's 40's and 50's as the origin of our problems?

Or keep it really plane and simple, has the "South" (I use quotes because of various migrational patterns since the civil war has changed the make up of what was once considered the "traditional South"), and now groups through out the US, never truly gotten over the loss of the civil war? The Emancipation of African Americans? The doing away with slavery?

So many possible contributing factors are at play.

How the right chooses to slice and dice this matter is for them to decide, but to me, no matter how many talking points they use to explain away the behavior of the tea party, the libertarians, minutemen or any other splinter cult-like group, it all comes down to racism.

They enjoy using smoke and mirrors to fog the media, distort the view and convince and brainwash the easily lead, but in the end, it's pure racism.

Reflecting upon recent events, concerning threats, brick throwing incidents, gas line cutting and racial epithets; these are part of the sum total of what we are quickly approaching.

I truly believe that within the next 2 months, or perhaps next month, there will be an obvious violent act committed by one of these groups.

I used to believe that it took several years for a movement to go from a simple group of people pissing and moaning about something to open violence, but no longer. With the advent of the internet, their hateful concepts and ideals spread now, like wildfire. No longer do people sit and talk about their plans, now they send out "bulletins" lightening fast to all their members and wanna-be's. No thought goes into it. It's read, ingested, then acted upon. Robots.

Whatever violent act that takes place will be done via a willing volunteer without any deep thought to cause and effect. In essence, a type of suicide bomber. They may or may not blow themselves up, but they will commit their act of violence with little to no regard to the after effects. It's all about the here and now.

The one positive thing about long drawn out wars, is the effect it has on the population. Generally speaking, the want of a war dissipates for a number of generations. The only problem with the US is: our last war on our own soil was almost 150 years ago. That's a lot of time for people to forget.

That is what scares the living daylights out of me.

[LiberalLoner]

1. Sometimes I wish there could be regular updates on these domestic

terrorists who are in prison now for what they did. I'd love to hear about how miserable they are in jail...(thinking of Scott Roeder and the old fart down in Louisiana who threatened a voter registration place and ended up going to prison..)