The number of conservative hate groups has grown 69% since 2000.

[Zorra]

Does hatred cause insanity, or is insanity the cause of hatred? And why are so many conservatives so full of hate? Why do so many RWers continue to systematically cause harm to innocent people, even children?

Understanding the threat: SPLC resources on the Sikh attack, rising extremism

The murderous attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin this past Sunday by neo-Nazi skinhead Wade Michael Page was just the latest in a series of terrorist incidents and plots by the radical right in recent months and years. It comes in the midst of explosive growth on the radical right – growth fueled by America’s increasing diversity, its economic problems and the election of the nation’s first black president.

Earlier this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center documented a third straight year of extraordinary growth that has swelled the ranks of extremist groups to record levels. The SPLC is now tracking 1,018 hate groups – a 69 percent increase since 2000.

In addition, the SPLC has documented a powerful resurgence of the antigovernment “Patriot” movement, which in the 1990s led to a string of domestic terrorist plots, including the Oklahoma City bombing. The number of Patriot groups, including armed militias, grew by 755 percent in the first three years of the Obama administration – from 149 at the end of 2008 to 1,274 in 2011.

Following is a list of SPLC resources related to the shooting in Wisconsin, the rise of extremism, the neo-Nazi skinhead movement and the racist music scene..

WTF is wrong with so many conservatives? What is it that makes them so crazy?

As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.

Quotes from conservative leaders:

"Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports f--s is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death." American Fred Phelps leader of the Westboro Baptist Church

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."
American Pat Robertson who founded the Christian Coalition

"I don´t know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
Former American President George Bush

"AIDS is not just God´s punishment for homosexuals; it is God´s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
American Jerry Falwell founder of the Thomas Road Baptist Church

"I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet."
Richard Nixon

"The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them."
- Rush Limbaugh

"If I am ever really in power, the destruction of the Jews will be my first and most important job. As soon as I have power, I shall have gallows after gallows erected, for example, in Munich on the Marienplatz-as many of them as traffic allows. Then the Jews will be hanged one after another, and they will stay hanging until they stink. They will stay hanging as long as hygienically possible. As soon as they are untied, then the next group will follow and that will continue until the last Jew in Munich is exterminated. Exactly the same procedure will be followed in other cities until Germany is cleansed of the last Jew!"
Adolf Hitler

The list of hateful and/or violent insanities, both spoken and perpetrated, by conservatives literally almost goes on forever.

Seriously ~

You have to be one sick puppy to voluntarily choose to self-identify as a conservative, and to join with a group that indisputably contains such an inordinate and overwhelming number of mean, hateful, harmful individuals, both past and present.

[russspeakeasy]

1. How long has rushbo been on air ?

[freshwest]

3. At least 20 years. Imagine people who've heard this their entire lives. Indoctrination works.

[russspeakeasy]

6. Yep . Now it's gone through the fermenting process.

[Zorra]

7. Yes. This is a deliberate, sustained effort by the 1% to institutionalize conservatism

into our collective societal/cultural consciousness.

They had the coin to buy the media, end the Fairness Doctrine, pay the brightest talent that money could buy for think tanks that money can buy.

You want to control the population?

Make the most people as ignorant as possible, and brainwash them with the media.

It's not rocket science.

[nichomachus]

2. And here I thought the GOP was losing members.

[freshwest]

4. Just split into different brands. Tea, Paulistas, Libertarians. Different colors of kool-aid.

Same owners, the Koches, same result.

[hootinholler]

5. Not a surprise at all

I have found my hate of conservatives has grown tremendously since 2000. I didn't know there were groups, I need to find one.