Reply #31: They don't know the facts, they offer no solutions, but they do have their EMOTIONS. [View All]

Two emotions, specifically: fear and hate. Stoked by fearmongers on fox "news" and talk radio. Bolstered by endlessly richocheting e-mails filled with capital letters and lies.

Here's the thing. Our objections to bush and cheney were based on things they had actually done. They did invade Iraq for no reason. They did deregulate the financial industry, leading to global economic collapse. They did give billions in tax breaks to the super-rich without paying for a penny of it.

Now look at what the Beckaloons object to in Obama: he's going to take away all our guns. He's going to set up concentration camps for conservatives. He's going to adopt a one-world currency. He's going to merge America with Canada and Mexico. He's going to establish a Socialist dictatorship. And my favorite, though heard somewhat less of late: he is going to recruit a personal army in Palestine and subjugate the states militarily, one by one.

Note what these paranoid fears have in common: (1) Obama (nor anyone else) has never advocated or even mentioned any of them; (2) they are all part of a "secret liberal agenda" that apparently only right-wing extremists have been able to divine; (3) they are all in the future, meaning that not one of them has actually happened.

If this is not pathology, then I don't know what is. Imagine living in daily fear of such dire yet non-occurring events. These people need help.