The Red Scare Returns
Today, from the floor of town-hall meetings and the heights of the Republican Party, alarmed Americans fret about secret socialists and denounce the president as a dictator. They make plans to pull their children out of school rather than have them exposed to his hypnotic oratorical powers. They quail at imaginary death panels, storm at imaginary threats to gun rights, and froth at an imaginary birth-certificate scandal. And it has required only eight ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Opinion Source, AllTop, Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
This commentary certainly hits home in terms of trying to understand the mass disassociation from reality that is being delivered to and acted upon by a significant group of Americans.