Lately I’ve been consuming as much conservative media as possible (interspersed with shots of Pepto-Bismol) to get a better sense of the mind and mood of the right. My read: They’re apocalyptic. They feel isolated, angry, betrayed and besieged. And some of their “leaders” seem to be trying to mold them into militias.
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But, it’s not all just harmless talk. For some, their disaffection has hardened into something more dark and dangerous. They’re talking about a revolution.
This is no joke. A lot of these people are armed--many of those largely in anticipation of this "moment". Blow continues:
At the same time, the unrelenting meme being pushed by the right that Obama will mount an assault on the Second Amendment has helped fuel the panic buying of firearms. According to the F.B.I., there have been 1.2 million more requests for background checks of potential gun buyers from November to February than there were in the same four months last year. That’s 5.5 million requests altogether over that period; more than the number of people living in Bachmann’s Minnesota.
I'll follow up with examples as I see them in the next few days/weeks. The right-wing blogosphere is a confused place right now.
Update: Not exactly a revolution, but not unrelated either. It'll be interesting to see if this version of the story bears out.
Update 2: Seems to be borne-out.
Update 3: Apparently the right-wing blogosphere has no idea what we're talking about:
I just do not understand why the Left Wing Media and the Liberal Bloggers are using two major tragedies like these to try and further an anti-gun agenda and a Conservative Media hysteria agenda. It does sort of remind me of the Jewish hysteria agenda that Hitler started in Germany.
Priceless! I wonder why so many wingnuts think we're on the verge of statist totalitarianism.
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