America's Right Wing: Fear Leads to Hate, and Hate Leads to Suffering

Since the introduction of Sarah Palin into the 2008 election, the right wing has been on the warpath. The rhetoric and volume of their message has been taken to increasingly fanatical extremes in an attempt to derail the movement for change and reform in America. This has already resulted in many deaths, and the conflict is becoming more open with every passing day. The country has changed. The majority of the last 30 years was dominated by an increasingly conservative political philosophy. During the Bush years, the real world failures of these policies began to appear in undeniable forms. The prison industry continued to boom under increasingly harsh laws until one out of every thirty two Americans was either behind bars or on probation, the highest rate in the world. Borrow and spend economics to fuel tax cuts for the rich and the illusion of prosperity brought mounting deficits and debt. Much of this money went into a burgeoning military, and today we spend almost as much as the rest of the world combined. The gulf between rich and poor got much worse, especially with CEOs who now rake in 1/3rd of all the pay. Full Story from News Junkie Post: http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/11/24/conservative-counter-revolution-and-the-coming-violence/

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