A fellow activist told me today:
"Angle (and Palin, O'Donnell, Ayn-Rand Paul, Beck, Limbaugh, etc) prove one thing. Americans crave leadership, and in the absence of true leadership gullible Americans will follow any snake oil salesman/woman who steps up in front of the camera and makes the most noise. Hear that Mr. President? Here that Dems in Congress? Step up..."
My reply:
It's not leadership, but confirmation bias.
Do you really need to be told what and how to think by someone? Is that your definition of leadership?
Since Obama won the primary, there has been an unending stream of vitriolic nonsense coming from the right in order to discredit his presidency. Not to mention the stated goals of the GOP leadership, whish is to cause the Obama administration to be seen as a failure.
There has been 24/7 derision, blame and falsehoods heaped on this administration, ignoring for the most part the how and why America came to be in this financial crisis in the first place!
The majority of folks in the Tea Party only became incensed when America elected the black man.
Deficits only became an issue when Democrats gained control, Repubs ran up $5 trillion dollars on the National debt in 8 years, I notice FOX never mentions THAT fact at all.
Angle, Palin, O'Donnell, Ayn-Rand Paul, Beck, Limbaugh, etc do in fact prove one thing, that some Americans need and want to be told what to think, who to hate and where they should point their impotent rage.
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