October 11, 2008
Looking More Like Weimar Than Just a Financial Crisis
The election takes uglier turns. Over at Yahoo news, McCain booed at his own rally:
A sense of grievance spilling into rage has gripped some GOP events this week as McCain supporters see his presidential campaign lag against Obama. Some in the audience are making it personal, against the Democrat. Shouts of "traitor," "terrorist," "treason," "liar," and even "off with his head" have rung from the crowd at McCain and Sarah Palin rallies, and gone unchallenged by them.
McCain changed his tone Friday when supporters at a town hall pressed him to be rougher on Obama. A voter said, "The people here in Minnesota want to see a real fight." Another said Obama would lead the U.S. into socialism. Another said he did not want his unborn child raised in a country led by Obama.
"If you want a fight, we will fight," McCain said. "But we will be respectful. I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments." When people booed, he cut them off.
Krugman in his NYT blog on the turn in the campaign:
What it came down to was that a significant fraction of the American population, backed by a lot of money and political influence, simply does not consider government by liberals (even very moderate liberals) legitimate. Ronald Reagan was supposed to have settled that once and for all.
What happens when Obama is elected? It will be even worse than it was in the Clinton years. For sure there will be crazy accusations, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see some violence.
Posted by Robin Varghese at 07:29 PM | Permalink
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People base reality on story and myth, and critical thinking has been selected against, and has been at impediment to genetic fitness.
Heuristic thinking has been selected for, so these traits are with us--
Even a curious person with a arduous education is swimming against the stream.
That is why it is my belief, practicing as much critical thing as my evolutionary history will allow, that tall this is going to be sorted out on the other side of the wall we are about to crash into.
Posted by: Dave Ranning | Oct 11, 2008 8:17:21 PM
Interesting insight. The story is based.
Posted by: Saurabh | Oct 11, 2008 10:46:31 PM
I do have worries about what might happen if Obama is elected. I think that most people would accept it if the margin is clear but if it is close there could be violence.
Posted by: Hamish Mack | Oct 12, 2008 7:13:02 PM
We've spent the last 8 years hearing Bush gratuitously trashed at every turn by leftists, so now we'll have to spend the next 4 hearing Obama being similarly trashed by rightists.
We've had Bush Derangement Syndrome, now we'll have Obama Derangement Syndrome.
Let's not hear any more hypocritical blatherings from people like Krugman. The leftist members of our media elite have tolerated, and indeed, participated in the suspension of the notion that their political opponents might be wrong but they are not bad. Just exactly how did they think that their own president would be treated when the tables got turned?
What goes around comes around.
Posted by: harmon | Oct 13, 2008 3:38:26 PM
For sure there will be crazy accusations, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see some violence.
Hmmm....I wonder if Mr. Krugman will be enraged if his "prophecy" DOESN'T come true? He'd rather be "correct" and have people get hurt, then be "wrong" and no one get hurt.
But then again, I wonder what he'd say if a certain racial group who supports Obama 93% according to polls ends up rioting should Obama lose?
Posted by: Wade Nichols | Oct 13, 2008 8:35:51 PM
My right wing friends--
Don't worry about Obama-- he is a "Chicago Boy" like the thugs of the last 8 years.
He will probably be even more effective at implementing these economic policies.
You may have some concern about workplace, women's and environmental policy, but other wise, he's your man.
Posted by: Dave Ranning | Oct 14, 2008 12:05:16 AM
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