Something very disturbing is happening to America. There are two Americas, one is conservative and the other is every thing else.
I tend not to say that the other America is liberal because I don’t really think the liberal bent is that persuasive despite what the right might say. Oh to be sure there are those areas of the country that are liberal like Massachusetts, but I think that the parts of the country that are not conservative are, to some extent, standing on the sidelines watching what is going on. And what is going on is disturbing.
The conservative America is increasingly becoming more hyper biased fueled in part by the right wing extremists. By that I mean that what ever bias the conservative right has, it gets hyped up by far the right nut cases and then the media picks up on it and it goes into hyper drive.
Look at the BS over the Islamic Cultural Center in NYC. Notice I didn’t say Mosque. Some right wing nutters whipped up fellow nutters to make this whole issue a case of Christian America against the Muslims. Normally I would say fine, you Christians go battle it out with the Muslims and let me know when it’s over. But since we are fighting a faction of Islam in Iraq and Afghanistan, does it make sense that we polarize the situation any more than it already is?
Also the dumbness of the stuff the far right puts out is beyond comprehension. Never mind what the facts are, the right has their views and damn anyone else. As in the case of the Islamic Cultural Center, the opposition was whipped up by Pamela Geller, a right wing blogger. One visit to her web site is enough to show you that facts don’t mean anything.
Trying to talk sensibly to them is a waste of time. All they like to do is shout and at the end of the day, nothing is accomplished. Sounds like the GOP to me!
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