Neil #9 and no mo more uro#4 – I have had pretty much the same dismaying experience this week,but not with friends and acquaintances, but on Open Salon. I post there for the literary exposure, more than to get into political discussion (since I save that for my mil-blog)I do have friends and fans, and there ARE some conservative/libertarian/independents there. But the few times I have commented on my Tea Party experience – it just got incredibly vicious and ugly, and this week was the absolute worst. (Sample comment thread here: not my own OS blog, but that of another blogger there, who was innocent and hopeful enough to think she could explain a few things about conservatives generally) – http://open.salon.com/blog/kldykmanaolcom/2010/03/26/the_misconception_of_my_conservative_views
This all hit a new degree of hatefulness after the 20th, with the vile accusations from the Dems of racism, white Klan robes, violence and threats and spitting, oh my. The worst part is the media commenters who are repeating it whole, without a question or a doubt. I’ve hit a limit now: I no longer want to try and reason or argue with any of them. There’s no point, and I’m tired and disgusted.
A while ago, I thought that various bloggers who talked about a cold civil war were exaggerating – but now I fear they were understating the situation. The leaders of the House and Senate, and this administration are prepping a frame up of the political opposition, and elements of the major news media and the lefty intellectual classes are all going along with it.