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39. There simply is no Democratic equivalent of Rush Limbaugh spewing hate all day.

There is no Democratic equivalent of a number of these hate-spewers.

Listen to Pacifica Radio's news programs. That is the far left. There is a calmness, a dispassion in most of the programming there that I listen to. They convey information. Listen to Thom Hartmann. Very calm and also conducting genuinely thoughtful dialogues with people who disagree with him. Then watch Fox News, Bill O'Reilly. Watch the contempt that Fox News shows for people who disagree with Fox. Watch the hate coming out of the pores of some of the Fox News types.

It's that hate that makes right-wingers so extreme. It is very, very sad for our country.

The hate is there because the right-wing philosophy cannot stand up to reason. In 2008, we saw what happens when the markets are allowed to run "free" without regulation. People cheat. That's what happens. And that's how a lot of America's 19th century moguls, often the great-grandparents of Americans who are out pillaging, ravaging the earth today, made their money. By squeezing out all competition, by cheating. They called it competition, but it wasn't. It was monopolizing the market, say getting a legislature to pass favorable laws so that your products could get to market but your competitors' couldn't. It was that over and over.

Meanwhile, it was the generous land grants to railroads that really built the West and made us a nation -- -government largesse to specific individuals. The truth about American history is not generally know, and when it is learned, you can see the lies the extreme right-wing and libertarian branches of the Republican Party.

We need to work together. Should we have free enterprise. Yes. But we need rules that give new businesses, truly small businesses, mom-and-pop businesses a fair chance. Rules that insure that if you buy a stock, the company that issued it can't in a back-handed way cheat you out of your money. Rules that insure that if you work for a company and are supposed to get a pension from that company, the company can't merge with another company or sell to another company and allow the new company to take your promised pension. Rules that put pressure on companies not to drive competitors out of specific markets by selling products way under cost. Rules that insure that American working people can compete in international markets in spite of our very valuable currency.

Many Republicans have no idea why we have environmental regulations. They simply don't study that field. They don't really understand chemistry. They don't know what it means if someone dumps arsenic into the water supply of a town. They have never heard of the sheepherders in Scotland who used arsenic when they sheared and washed their sheep. They don't know what they are talking about. They just think that if you simply spew your poison on the earth, God will somehow take care of it. Doesn't work that way. They don't know how much care is put into monitoring the safety of the water that comes out of their tap or their well. They don't understand the role of the EPA and government in making sure they can breathe safely and drink water safely.

Too many Republicans spew hate rather than information. It's a doggone shame because it is really hurting our country. The numbers of right-wing militia groups in the country speaks for itself. Go to the Southern Poverty Law website and find out for yourself.