What sputtering raging spew does do is create an emotional effect. That’s straight out of Propaganda 101.

I believe a lot of supposed BDS sufferers are actually leftist propagandists. They don’t believe all the BS they write, but they know that it links Bush with negative emotions in people’s minds. It encourages people to hate Bush rather than merely disagreeing with him. Hating someone is easier and more satisfying to the ego than arguing against them point by point. And it’s contagious. If you put enough hateful messages out there, people think everyone’s hating – it gives them permission to hate along. Pretty soon, you’ve got yourself a mob.

So persuasion isn’t the only tool in our political toolkit. There’s a large vial of emotional poison in there, too. Only question is, do we want to win badly enough to use it?

It’ll be deranged if people are still doing it eight years from now despite a complete lack of evidence that Obama is anything remotely as bad as Hitler.

One point most of us here can relate to – I felt a taste of BDS myself during the immigration debate when I was told that I didn’t “care about what’s best for the country.” Actually, I think it was McCain who came up with that one, but it stuck to Bush also.

I can only imagine how often those who otherwise disagreed with Bush were similarly inflamed on a regular basis.

We’d be well served in todays politics to study how people choose their loyalty to sports teams. Which is nothing more than an emotional affinity captured by the marketing of attitude.

We may have just had our clock cleaned by pretending politics is and should be above all that. Well no. Its exactly that.

Excellent comment Rose!

The national policies may or may not hurt you but the increase in crime (as is true in Britain after socialist policies have been implemented) is what is really going to threaten folks.

The problem with corruption is always that people will start their own extortion rackets which the central government cannot get rid of. Instead of one standard in which people can protest or try to reform, we have the standards of 50 goon squads all with their own versions of what is right and wrong, legal and illegal.

Factionalism, Civil War, and what we saw in Iraq, sectarian strife, will all happen given enough efforts at the top (Obama) to shatter human rights. Those that complained about Bush destroying civil liberties will truly see what civil liberties are and what happens to a society when they are destroyed under an Obama.

If it becomes reality then we’ll use what the US Constitution put in as fail safes, Rose. Where there is a will, there is a way. Especially when that path was forseen centuries ago.

“What I haven’t seen, though, is the kind of anti-Obama fervor that you appear to be afraid of.”

I’ve seen some here and there. I just didn’t know if it was temp thing that was going to blow over in a week or not. I think we should throw some cold water on it to keep it from becoming fixed… The Kos Kidds did not win this election for O (the media did!). They’re basically idiots and we’ve nothing to learn from them.