In Put Up Or Shut Up, Sara Robinson asks conservatives if they are deliberately trying to start a civil war . . .
Just answer the question. Yes or no. Don’t insult us with elisions, evasions, dithering, qualifications, or conditional answers. We need to know what your intentions are and we need to know NOW. People are being shot dead in the streets of America at the rate of several per month now. You may not want responsibility for this–but the whackadoodles pulling the triggers make no bones about who put them up to this.
You did.
The assassins themselves are ratting you out. They’re telling us, straight up, that they were inspired to act by the hate radio talkers that you empowered–one of whom is now the de facto head of the Republican party. They got it from media outlets owned by your biggest donors. They got it from bloggers who receive daily talking points faxed in from the GOP.
Conservatives are playing with fire. It’s what they do. It’s all they do. They played with fire by invading and occupying Iraq, and we all got burned. They played with fire by deregulating Wall Street and the banking industry, and we all got burned. They played with fire by torching the Bill of Rights, and we all got burned. If you disagree with them, prepare to be blowtorched.