The Insane Reaction Against Obama's Upcoming

speech Tuesday to millions of schoolchildren and against health care reform shows how much the exploitation by the Republicans has succeeded in creating mob rule:

But it seems, despite their grand efforts, we are now sliding into a morass of mob rule here in the great nation that they founded, but in a manner that they could never have anticipated despite their brilliance and great foresight. See, our Founders never foresaw television or the Internet, and the power that could be derived by the misuse of these innovative tools by those who would prefer that our now-wealthy nation be ruled for the exclusive benefit of the most avaricious among us.

The mob rule that they feared was of a people, agitated by oppression or hard times, seeking to mitigate the very real and undeniable hardships they experienced in their own lives by whipping up the people into an emotional frenzy, using demagoguery to goad the people into taking what they want through the violent usurpation of of the rights of all, without regard to the good of society. But that's not what's happening here.

Here in the health care "debate," and again in this ridiculous reaction to Obama's educational speech scheduled for this coming Tuesday, we see our people, rendered progressively less knowledgeable and conscious of the society around them by the deliberate efforts of one of our political parties, whipped up into a violent mob acting AGAINST THE MOB'S OWN CLEAR AND UNDENIABLE INTERESTS. These mobs are fighting to deny health care to the mob's own crowd so that it can be reserved for their betters. We see slavering mobs shouting down our most respected legislators, and the mob is saying they don't WANT health care. They threaten to secede from the union because they demand that the rich NOT be taxed and that therefore they face higher taxes themselves. We see whole school systems, located in communities where education is most severely needed, threatening to shut down to prevent the students from hearing a president's address on the importance of education.

We are allowing not merely mob rule, but we are allowing ourselves to be ruled by a most particularly and fiercely ignorant mob, unable even to recognize the interests of its own members. And, because of some strange new political etiquette that I fail to understand why it has come about, we aren't even permitted to point out how stupid this is for fear that the candidates supported by thinking people might not get the votes of this mob, a mob that wouldn't vote for them under any circumstances, ever.