We’re watching the press out-and-out lie in its reportage. We’re watching YouTube censor what may negatively impact their man. Networks will sell 1/2 chunks of airtime to the Obama campaign, but will not run an ad by his critics. Ann Alt…

Americans are ticked off.

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There really are a lot of genuinely upset people on the right wing; all it takes is a minuscule percentage of them to make a crown seem ugly. It is quite certain that the Democrats don’t have to pay select members of an “angry mob” to create embarrassment; the Republican party faithful are quite capable of doing it on their own. Anybody who believes otherwise is out of touch with reality.

Given the MSM narrative on these stories, the Democrats have a vested interest in perpetuating the “Republicans are angry, racist, and violent” meme, and so why wouldn’t they put some plants at some McCain rallies to provid their allies in the MSM with convenient sound bites?

Banish him! Off with his head!

Of course the vast majority of persons who were too busy living life and providing for their families had no time for such activities. But those who made it a priority had to reach out physiscally to be involved.

Now with the internet, the ability to be connected has exploded exponentially. Our time available to spend connecting is also much greater. And our collective knowledge has also grown dramatically. The group-think mentality has acheived greater certainty for which ever side of the divide you fall.

For example, there is a portion of the populace that is certain that Bush drove the war against Iraq to fill the pockets of his cronies, there are reasonable issues to be considered in our government’s involvement in 9-11, Bush stole Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, and the government let Wall Street drive the economy into our current crisis. There is another portion equally certain that cries of voter fraud are laughable in FL and OH, but voter fraud in Milwaukee and St. Louis and Cleveland were driven by Acorn, the group that also pushed the subprime loans; that the press is attacking Palin because they are elitist, Obama is certainly a socialist if not a communist.

The biggest problem facing America, IMHO, is the intelectual divide. We have assembled into information ghettos where rumor is fact, and the threat of the “other” on both sides of the information divide is used to whip up a frenzy of emotion.

Rick, your blog is an assault on this divide, as you can tell, because you are attacked by both sides. But the red/blue ugliness appears to be headed toward a horrible tipping point. On the left I read threats of riots and civil unrest if the polls are not reflected in the elctoral college; on the right the call to load up ammunition for the expected government assault on the second amendment.

I don’t know where this is all headed, but the division of the late 1960’s is back, with greater communication capabilities, greater weaponry, and a more equal distribution of number and power. This is frightening.

I guess the campaign’s polling must have revealed a problem.

Let’s see, does this remind us of anything? For the confederate battle flag? Against the confederate battle flag?