"terrorist sympathizers"

Since 9/11 it has become increasingly common on the Right to call us Democrats and liberals "terrorist sympathizers" and "traitors". We've become the "hate America crowd". Talk radio hosts and their callers, pundits on TV, in slug-fest "news" shows, in blogs and online forums, radical "conservatives" now regularly call us the enemy. They mean it literally. And in so doing they break the most fundimental covenent of our nation.

As example, here's a comment I recieved today:

"Typical of the Democrat mentality, prosecute anyone who disagrees with you. Meanwhile, never try to stop foreign terrorist from killing Americans. Oh I forgot, they are the Democrats allies, why would they try to stop them."

My response follows:

When you become so in the thrall of your own worldview that you publicly declare half your fellow Americans to be traitors - presumed to deserve a traitor's fate - you've reduced yourself to the level of a tatooed neo-nazi skin-head, or a Klansman in a bedsheet - in short, an absolute fucking nut case. You serve the function the brownshirts served for Hitler. You bully. And you try terrify us.

But even still, though you are delusional and a sociciopath, I grant that you are an AMERICAN sociopath, and I would never presume to question your patriotism, or your love of OUR country. And I will never stand for you to question mine.

That's the difference between the Left and the Right: You deny our humanity - our right even to be alive.

I want you to know that you're the inspiration of the DeadElephant campaign. We're preaching your message for you. You should take pride of ownership.