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How The Right's Latest Conspiracy Theory Might Unleash a Wave of Domestic Terrorism if Obama Wins
http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/how-rights-latest-conspiracy-theory-might-unleash-wave-domestic-terrorism-if-obamaIn a somewhat desperate attempt to maintain morale among a Republican base that disdains its standard-bearer, a number of conservative media outlets are pushing an alternate reality in which Mitt Romney is leading in the polls by wide margins and American voters have a decidedly negative view not of the challenger, but of Barack Obama.
It's an exceptionally dangerous game that the right-wing media are playing. If Obama wins and according to polling guru Nate Silver, he'd have a 95 percent chance of doing so if the vote were held today there's a very real danger that this spin -- combined with other campaign narratives that are popular among the far-right -- could create a post-election environment so toxic that it yields an outburst of politically motivated violence.
A strategy that began with a series of rather silly columns comparing 2012 with 1980, and assuring jittery conservatives that a huge mass of independents was sure to break for Romney late and deliver Obama the crushing defeat he so richly deserves, entered new territory with the bizarre belief that all the polls are wrong. And not only wrong, but intentionally rigged by biased pollsters including those at Fox News in the tank for Obama. (See Alex Pareene's piece for more on the right's new theory that the polls are being systematically skewed.)
Consider how a loosely-hinged member of the right-wing fringe an unstable individual among the third of conservative Republicans who believe Obama's a Muslim or the almost two-thirds who think he was born in another country expecting a landslide victory for the Republican might process an Obama victory. This is a group that has also been told, again and again, that Democrats engage in widespread voter fraud that there are legions of undocumented immigrants, dead people and inelligible felons voting in this election ( with the help of zombie ACORN ). They've been told that Democrats are buying the election with promises of free stuff offered to the slothful and unproductive half of the population that pays no federal income taxes and refuses to take responsibility for their lives Romney's 47
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How The Right's Latest Conspiracy Theory Might Unleash a Wave of Domestic Terrorism if Obama Wins (Original Post)
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Sep 2012
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. A good read indeed. The level of misinformation on the right has skyrocketed.
It will go beyond mere sore-loserism when their bubble bursts.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)2. Yikes...
good article, but
King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)3. Keep moving. No fascism to see here!
I sure hope there is a Hell waiting for these scumbags.