With Beck, Limbaugh, Bachmann and their parrots in Congress, we have a colossal case of projection or accusing others of what is really troubling yourself.  In other words, these republican gadflies are the ones who want to be dictators and who actually threaten the environment.  They deny this, of course, by placing the blame on their opponents.  So, their precious psyches are preserved.

Needless to say, what the republicans are doing is extremely dangerous to the health, both mental and physical, of the entire nation.  Needless to say, the Goppers have some serious psychological issues which threaten the well being of all of us.  I guess one could say they need therapy and fast.

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Kabir

If Obama is turning the U.S. into Zimbabwe, can we hope that Beck's sorry assed self will soon be breaking rocks in a political prison?

They're accusing Obama of tyranny, not for indefinite detention or covering up torture, but for trying to address global warming and extend health care coverage to the uninsured. If you take their rhetoric seriously, Obama is turning America into North Korea or the Soviet Union or Zimbabwe. And, if that were really the case, we'd all be justified in rising up and overthrowing our government. It's dangerous, irresponsible rhetoric that incites people to violence.

You're right, of course.

There is no other logical, or even possible conclusion at this point, BooMan:  That's been the plan since November 5, 2008.  I've been saying it for some time now.  

"Will no one rid America of this troublesome Obama?" has been the unspoken question behind the last nine months of hate.  Every day that question gets pounded like a steel spike through the heads of hate radio's audience, driving a little bit closer to that collective lizard brain.  Every day we come closer to the effort to try to fulfill the sick Red Dawn fantasies of overthrowing the Tyrant.

Somebody will try to answer it.  I am more convinced than ever it will happen soon.

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

If you take their rhetoric seriously...

Their rhetoric has been divorced from reality ever since AuH2O got his hindquarters handed to him...

The Underground Railroad

It's dangerous, irresponsible rhetoric that incites people to violence.

and when the violence happens, they'll hide behind the first amendment and deny any responsibility or complicity in the action/s of whomever.

we've already seen this  play out with the knoxville church shooter who was an acolyte of o'reilly, hannity, savage, etal., to mention just one example.

the revolution will not be televised...

there's bats in the belfry...Pastor Urges His Flock to Bring Guns to Church:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Ken Pagano, the pastor of the New Bethel Church here, is passionate about gun rights. He shoots regularly at the local firing range, and his sermon two weeks ago was on "God, Guns, Gospel and Geometry." And on Saturday night, he is inviting his congregation of 150 and others to wear or carry their firearms into the sanctuary to "celebrate our rights as Americans!" as a promotional flier for the "open carry celebration" puts it.

"God and guns were part of the foundation of this country," Mr. Pagano, 49, said Wednesday in the small brick Assembly of God church, where a large wooden cross hung over the altar and two American flags jutted from side walls. "I don't see any contradiction in this. Not every Christian denomination is pacifist."

nyt

lord help us.

the revolution will not be televised...

Idiot anti-"communist" bullshit served them (and too many Dems) well for half a century. It was pretty much their only successful playbook, so no surprise that they'd be desperately trying to reprise it now that their chickens have come home to roost. Like its predecessors it continues to be a thin wash trying to obscure a structure made of racism, nativism, corporate neo-fascism, and punitive Christianist theocracy.

And Beck? He's just nuts. Doesn't matter if his performance makes him rich. He's still nuts, like anyone who voluntarily listens to him.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

"He seems transparently buffoonish and, for that reason, fairly unthreatening"

That's what people said about Hitler and Mussolini.

From a purely pragmatic (and coldly cynical) standpoint, the GOP is essentially laying the groundwork for their own destruction. Once the violence reaches the point that it starts to alarm more than just the left, the conservative remnant will begin to be seen as outlaws. If a large enough swath of the public becomes genuinely afraid of right-wing violence, it will become possible to crush them with the power of the state the way American communism was crushed by the Palmer Raids.

Note that I'm not advocating carrying the response to that extreme, but these things have a way of developing irresistible momentum once people get panicked enough.

That said, I do have to confess that when the day comes that they start rounding up neo-Nazis and Klansmen and their latter-day Minutemen fellow terrorists, I'm not going to take time off work to protest their detention.