No Reason For Alarm, Citizens

Nothing going on here but a bunch of good, old-fashioned, Murrica-luvin patriots having a good, old-fashioned town hall sing-along, just like the Founders intended.

Have you noticed how these last few months have had a frantically surrealistic feel about them? Almost like a feverish, malignant dream from which we can't quite wake ourselves.

Over sixty years ago, more than 16 million American men and women fought -- and over 400,000 died -- across five continents to help shove this malevolent genie back into its bottle.

And yet here it is again, leering out at us from the darkest and most savage place in the human soul, aided and abetted by Conservative media and political leaders trying desperately to pry the blood-soaked cork out of that ancient, evil bottle in the name of a First Amendment for which they had absolutely no use when a Republican was in the White House.

It would be different if we didn't know who these people are, but we do.
We know what they want.
And history could not be clearer about how this will end if they are not stopped and stopped hard.

And yet in this stupefied summer of 2009 through which we are shambling, the simple act of calling them out for who and what they are -- of speaking a vital, therapeutic and blindingly self-evident truth loud and clear -- is the one thing that virtually everyone in our national media would obviously rather lose an arm than say aloud.