The sky is not falling. America is not becoming anything close to a socialist nation. Their guns and ammo are still safe and secure. Their children haven't turned into little commie munchkins. Obama hasn't killed their grandparents. The government hasn't started rounding up all the white folk for slave labor. And he even lowered taxes.
Yet they think things are so bad that there has been a 755% increase in the number of militia groups since Obama took office. No, that's not a typo. And the numbers are only increasing because of their fear of Obama winning again. They are preparing for an armed response to the perceived threats that liberals pose to "their" great nation. They are stock piling firearms, ammunition, food, water, and ignorance in the hopes that it will save them from impending liberal doom.
They thought that Obama was going to take their guns and ammunition away. Instead, his administration has repeatedly defended our Second Amendment rights, including signing a new law that allows guns to be carried in National Parks. A law that ironically did away with a ban that their savior Ronald Reagan imposed during his administration.
They claimed that Obama was planning on brainwashing their children with an "unprecedented" speech broadcast to their children's schools. Instead, he simply asked our children to work hard, do their best in school, and stay away from negative influences. Surely even the most ignorant right-wing nut in America couldn't argue with those values.
I understand that this was a while back, but it was one of the first major signs that these wackos were going to take their bigotry fueled banter to levels this nation has never seen.
And yes, I said bigotry fueled. Without tapping that elephant in the room too hard, I will simply say that the level of right-wing invented fear-mongering would be nowhere close to the Armageddon levels it is now if there were a white Democrat in the Oval Office. To deny that fact is naivety at its worst.
One only needs to search their favorite social network for groups containing the word "patriot" to see exactly where the pulse of the bigoted right-wing is.
Recruiting members for what they consider an unavoidable confrontation with the left, these self proclaimed "patriots" are posting videos of themselves with guns and other implements of war while attempting to garner support for what they consider an almost sacred calling to "take their country back" by any means necessary. And the rhetoric has only grown worse in response to Obama possibly serving a second term.
The right-wing's double standard is as follows. When a brown man collects arms and talks of preparing for armed conflict within America it's called conspiracy to commit terrorism. When a white man does it, it's called "exercising his rights."
Let's be clear here. Terrorism is terrorism. Whether it's a group of white Christian men on a ranch or a group of Middle Eastern men in a desert, when a group takes up arms for a conflict based on their political or religious beliefs and threatens violence on those who disagree with them, it's the very definition of terrorism.
The likes of Fox News entertainers as well as militias are perpetuating quite possibly the first and largest grass-roots domestic terrorism campaign in recent history. Their inciting language and "calls to action" should fool no one. It's one thing to voice your opinion that liberals should leave town. It's another thing entirely to say it while holding a machine gun.
Let me be crystal clear to any trolls that may have slithered onto this page. You are not defending our nation. You are not defending the greater good. You are not defending the will of our citizens. You are only using a political base to fuel your bigoted view that all non-white, non-christian, non-right-wing humans either leave this country or face your potential violent uprising.
And make no mistake about it. Should you choose that path, reasonable minded, freedom loving, real patriots will defend America's core values once again. We will never allow those full of hate to pursue an agenda of hatred and succeed. We will never allow bigoted psychopaths to succeed in their venture to turn this entire nation into 1950's Mississippi.
Liberals are not weak. Loving peace does not equal surrender. G-d forbid you nutjobs succeed in creating a second civil war, a union of true patriots will win again. Our strength is shown when it matters most, not in pointless displays of insanity masquerading as true patriotism.
For a true patriot wants one thing. Freedom. Freedom from those who seek to impose cruel and torturous treatment on them for what they are. Freedom from judgement based on who they love. And above all else, freedom from those who understand nothing about what freedom truly means.