Newest right-wing smear: Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ

Right now I'm reading a book about Richard Nixon and the political divide of the 60s/70s (highly recommended), and it's made me realize something. These paranoid right wing fucks dominating the media right now may seem silly and sometimes frightening to a 20-something year old who's never seen anything like it, but they really have nothing on the right wing psychopaths of the 60s. Holy. Shit. I was so naïve, and I'm sorry.

I mean, there were certainly left wing militants in the 60s, but most of the dirty hippies were too obsessed with sitting in shacks and smoking pot with their heads up their asses to actually do anything. The fringe on the right wing was absolutely batshit. It was the birth of fascism in America, in all but name. And in a way, the right wing's potential now is even more frightening and dangerous. Reagan gave the lunatics a window into the mainstream, and our cowardly media rarely calls any of them out. But still, we're not here yet:

In Champaign, Illinois, [in 1965] leaders of peace demonstrations got stickers on their mailboxes reading, "You are in the sights of a Minuteman." In Queens, the DA seized an arsenal, to be used by the right-wing vigilante group the Minutemen in assaults on "left-wing camps in a three-state area," including mortars, bazookas, grenades, trench knives, over 150 rifles, a "half dozen garroting devices," and over a million rounds of ammunition.

But it certainly doesn't help when we get McCarthyists like Glenn Beck stoking the fears of what little audience he has left. Here's Rachel Maddow talking about Beck's latest obsession: the end times.