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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
This the statement that gets me:
Last week, during Obama's health care town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., a man carrying a sign reading "It is time to water the tree of liberty" stood outside with a pistol strapped to his leg. It's a political statement," he told The Boston Globe. "If you don't use your rights, then you lose your rights."
And remember this gem: "So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Decide to make a change on how some health care is done and people immediately pick up weapons because they are afraid of losing that right to bear arms...Nice.
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I'm not sure who this "they" you are referring to is. It sounds like some caricature of a stereotype though.
Do you mean to say that if you don't support this coming "change," that you "cling" to things like guns, religion, xenophobia, or that you must necessarily cling to all three?
You have to realize that the only reason people like this are in the news at all is because someone is trying to paint anyone who disagrees with whatever Obama and the Democrats are selling as a loony and/or a domestic terrorist wannabe.
Don't buy too much into the hype. We right-wingers are generally pretty normal people who don't need guns, religion and xenophobia to comfort us in our belief systems. That said, I do tend to be quite fond of guns and religion and I'm not sure how I feel about free trade. Strangely, most pro-union Dems have misgivings about free trade, but I doubt they're religious or own guns or any of those scary things.