Has the world gone insane?

[diandrahollman]

"In Internet posts, alleged #Oslo shooter advocates creating "a cultural Euro-version of a Tea Party movement." -- David Corn

The European version of the American gun-toting, astroturfing whackadoodle party killed nearly a hundred members of the Labor Party (left wing) in Norway. Is it any wonder I'm scared to live among people who think like this? People who think Michele Bachmann is their messiah, come to save them from all the Jew-loving, Commie-Socialist Homos? (Seriously, I still hear people around here complaining about "all them niggers". I'm not sure when we became North Mississippi).

The scariest part is not really that there are people like this in America. I've come to accept that America is full of degenerates who would rather bomb a women's health clinic than accept that sometimes abortions are necessary to save a woman's life. But when Europe starts producing nutballs like this, I start really worrying.

Comments

[captain91.livejournal.com]

firstly i'm absolutely horrified at norway and i really wonder at the brain power of anybody who can do somethign like that, what do they hope to achieve. even though i didn't know anyone affected i wept for them


but i have to ask (as an uninformed english gal) i thought the tea party in the states were the equivalent of the "Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality" joke government party in england. yeesh, please tell me your lot are at least not life threatening!

btw i'm serious, i honestly don't know andthe internet assumes i know all the ins and outs of the government so i could make no sense of what i found

[diandrahollman.livejournal.com]

It is horrifying. There is no other way to describe it. I don't know anyone in Norway either, but I sympathize with the poor, undeserving victims of a clearly disturbed man.

Sadly, no, the Tea Party isn't a joke party. Well, technically they should be, but they have wormed their way into the Republican party and warped it beyond all recognition, forcing formerly sane politicians to give in to their every demand or be faced with the possibility of losing his/her seat to a Tea Party challenger. We've started referring to the Republican party as the GOTea because they have become so indistinguishable.

Their current darling (who is from my state, not that those of us who are still sane like to admit it) is running for president against Obama and people are actually taking her seriously as a candidate despite the fact that she is very obviously insane. Her husband runs a clinic where he claims he can "cure" people of being gay through prayer to the almighty Jesus and she signed a pledge that sounds disturbingly like Mein Kampf. There's no way someone like her could possibly WIN a presidential election, but I'm afraid of what will happen now that these lunatics who support people like her have been given such a prominent voice. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing that happened in Oslo happened here.

[captain91.livejournal.com]

i don't even know where to start with that.

people liek that actually getting seats in parliament?
thinking they can "cure gay" (hello, what's to cure?)
running for president

dear god i hope you're right and that she won't get in!

[diandrahollman.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping it's only in America that people like this can get seats in the government. Did I mention she says she is running for president because God told her to? And her main goal in life is to make sure Obama doesn't serve another term as president at all costs? Yeah. She's batshit insane. The people who keep electing her to office (two terms so far) live practically next door to me (hence why I'm scared to drive around with an Obama bumper sticker).

I don't think she has all that much support outside of that little community, so I'm not too worried about her being elected president (that would be the 7th sign of the Apocalypse), but it's still terrifying to think of how much power people like her have. Not to mention their access to weaponry and unstable mentality.

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry TOO much about Europe producing these kind of people in mass scales - that was one nutjob and according to some statistic the people on his side of the fence in Norway (at least THAT far right) are less than 1% of the population, and while we do have some Tea Party-like parties, the only country where they're actually a part of the government right now is mine *facepalm*. (Well, if you don't count a bunch of Eastern Europe countries, but 99% of those are basically dictatorships in disguise.)

That said there's a reason why I hate/fear fanatics of any kind. I still can't believe that you can be so insane to kill one hundred kids because you think that multiculturalism sucks. :|||| Or that we're still at the 'them niggers' point *extra facepalm*. The more I read about that guy the more I feel scared though. Mostly because he's sure he did a necessary thing. I can't even.

[diandrahollman.livejournal.com]

Less than 1% is comforting. They are a minority here, but they are more like 10% and they totally control some areas (like Wisconsin currently, which is turning into a dictator state where citizens are treated like stupid peasants whose opinions are of no concern). I guess the fact that there are ANY people this crazed in Europe makes their presence in America all the more real and frightening. I usually count on Europeans to be smart enough to not follow us down the path of insanity.

I fear fanatics too. Which is why I'm especially scared now since this past election seems to have dragged a whole lot of them out of the woodwork - giving a voice to all those people who STILL think freeing the slaves and giving women the right to vote was a mistake. The fact that there is a black man in the White House drives them insane. They will do anything to get him out.

[curgypsy.livejournal.com]

Michele Bachmann will not become president. I count on the more rational people of our country to not let that happen. Hell, I even count on some members of the Republican party to realize how crazy she is.

And there have always been crazy people *everywhere* in the world. Europe has always had racism like anywhere else. I'm just sorry you have to live someplace where you have to hear this all the time.