WHO are the "Hated" ??
Whatever you might think about the Tea Party, only the most blind can fail to see that "hatred runs through it". Who and what is "hated" by a member of that "Party" may vary, but "hate" is the common thread. Ted Cruz, who has managed to "paste" himself in the lead of the Party, reminds me of David Duke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke. Forerunner to the likes of Cruz, Limbaugh, Rove, and similar practitioners of the art of racial, religious, and class hatreds; Duke was the kind of guy that "you could dress up, but you couldn't let him out among a decent citizenry". He wasn't ready for prime time. Karl Rove and Lee Atwater have prepared the social fabric for Duke's successors: Cruz, Graham, Rubio, Rand Paul, and other less known contenders.
Who and what are the targets of these hatreds? President Obama heads the list, quickly followed by his family, his political party, his ability to win elections, persons of color, persons who have the intelligence to resist their messages, the rich, the poor, non-Christians, foreigners, females, the sick, "moderates", Conservatives with an IQ above 50, and "compromise". I'm sure, with a little thought, you can add items to this list.
Because of the immense amounts of money available to feed this growing cesspool of hatred, the MEDIA is being lured more and more into the orbit of those fellow members who clearly are "propagandists". We run the risk of falling into a trap like the public of "Remember The Maine" and "Yellow Journalism" of the 1890s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(ACR-1). I feel sorry for those youngsters who weren't alive to experience the journalism of Edward R. Murrow, Eric Sevareid, and Walter Cronkite. This younger generation of talking heads in our Media are hungrier, meaner, more cynical, less well-informed, lazier, and less respectful of "Fact or Truth". These failings of our contemporary media help to explain the "Cuckoo's Nest" nature of our social existence today. I can foresee a new "industry" in which Media practitioners "Out" fellow members for taking money or favors from those who pay for this type of extremism, and "shading" their journalism in exchange. We saw the dangers of "Yellow Journalism" during the recent "Shutdown and Default" caper foisted on this nation by the Tea Party.
Another scary future might be a large-scale replay of Jim Jone's recent "Kool-Aid" debacle in a jungle in Latin America. "Tea" or "Kool-Aid", the outcome could be the same.
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