Fuck You Die in a Fire: Bill Maher on internet hate

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Sure, some have come out of the woodwork. But

others are being created, and in greater proportion than in the past, by the pairing of learned helplessness in the public at large and a vitriolic level of expression in the media, particularly (but hardly exclusively) the Fox/Rush/Liddy/Beck axis.

People are realizing that they're trapped, and they are lashing out at the victims put in front of them by the cynical messengers of the Overlords.

In somewhat similar circumstances in Germany in 1933, after 15 years of economic and cultural devastation following WWI, it was the Jews, the gypsies, the socialists who were singled out as the Enemy and the cause of the unrelenting misery.

Give it a few years--or even a few months if the Republicans smash us against the debt ceiling--and our own situation could be ripening toward a similar outcome.