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.