commanderkai commanderkai:
I'm curious, since there have been thousands of examples of things like this during the Bush years, does that make all anti-war/anti-Bush whackos?
Seemingly if one side is whacko, certainly the other side is, unless there's this double standard.
Yes, the Bushitler crowd were whack-os too. However, the current radicalization of the right in the US is interesting.
You have the US, which is probably one of the most right-wing countries in the world. You had Bush--probably the most right wing president in modern US history with the most right-wing cabinet. By the time he was done, the right-wing in the US had moved so far right that, at the end, they were calling Bush a
liberal. And then Obama gets in, and the right-wing makes
another hard right, into tea party/Glenn Beck Land. That level of large-scale radicalization hasn't been seen in the US since the 60s I think.
It's interesting because the right and left are switching places--the left desperate to maintain the "status quo" of a generation ago, and the right agitating for radical change.