07.28.11

The extremist in the weeds, again

Posted in Extremism at 9:21 am by George Smith

From Randy Toman’s LehighValleyConservative blog today, there’s this lede, a rant elliptically about the debt ceiling crisis:

Obama and the Socialist Democrats have brought us into a different era. We are no longer a unified people. We no longer have a government that is for all the people, only the select few, decided by Obama, a community organizer. When he was a community organizer in Chicago, he was for helping blacks only and that was to get votes for Democrats only. There is nothing more divisive then that. It’s class warfare at it’s best! It’s obvious to reasonable people, that he hates the rich and successful. That would include most all of business, large and small. He believes in penalizing instead of rewarding success and he does it by wanting to take from them and give it to the least successful.

A couple of days ago it was impeach the president because he faked his birth certificate stuff.

This is only important in terms of two things. First, as undiluted bigoted poison, a characteristic described yesterday by Hal Crowther at The Populist, referenced here:

The election of a non-white president has brought out the worst in the worst of us. But who guessed that there were so many, or that their worst was so awful?

Second, Randy Toman’s blog isn’t without a social cost. It’s provided a slate for the views of a guy now running for the school board of the Bethlehem School District in Pennsylvania.

And the views and opinions on the blog show the practice of publishing free speech. But it also shows he’s totally unfit for any political position which has influence over the educational environment of children.

However, extremists get elected in the US. It happens when the mainstream press refuses to do its job and the people who vote go into booths blind about the beliefs and values of those whose names are on the ballots.

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