Barack Obama was born in Kenya and is not our president.
Barack Obama is a socialist.
Barack Obama has nationalized 51% of the economy.
Obama's healthcare reform includes death panels.
President Obama is putting in place reeducation camps in order to brainwash children into being politically correct.
President Obama is a fascist.
Obama is the antichrist.
President Obama hates white people.
That's just President Obama. There are worse claims coming from mainstream sources on everyone from George Soros to Congressional Democrats. They alone aren't the end of it, though.
Here is a page which marks every incident of right-wing violence and attempted violence, including murders, over a 6 month period between March and September of 2010. Vandalism, threats of violence, death threats, and even instances of murder are becoming more and more common. Congressional death threats rose by 300% in 2010 and that trend is projected to continue. "Patriot" groups and militias are
surging in numbers, and
populist anger has engulfed an entire political spectrum.
There's violence in the vitriol. We're fast approaching something terrible and it may be too late to stop it.
The discussion is this: why does such discourse exist? What is it's intended purpose? What are the possible ramifications of increasingly extremist language being married with violent and revolutionary sentiment and imagery? Is the next Tim McVeigh just around the corner? What can be done to slow or stop this?