Election '08: Is it too late to bring back the Whig party?

This one's not trying to be funny, it's just one girl's quadrennial election-y rant.

My new obsession is the Fox News message boards. The bunker-huddlers who populate the comment section are exactly as fascinatingly grammatically incorrect, racist and conspiracy loving as you might imagine. And I. Can't. Look. Away.

Reading the comments is like a window to the mind of your ignorant relatives who may not have their facts straight, but will shout down any logic with Fox-supplied talking points. They may not know what Socialism is, but they know that dark fella is a wealth distributor. (Because, obviously people without college degrees are all very concerned about protecting their $250,000 salaries.)

It dawned on me that their blind acceptance of what they're told to believe from Karl Rove, Fox, et al. mirrors their adherence to their black-or-white worldviews on religion. There's no nuance in this, no shades of gray for people who refute statistics with "gut feelings" or anecdotes. ("I don't believe polls because me and none of my friends haven't ever been surveyed so I think the mainstream media is just twisting their facts LIKE ALWAYS." Or "McCain's gonna win cause in my whole office there's only one guy who says he's for Obama.") These things happen when you go around in circles in the same small town your whole life. It becomes a homogenous vortex.

In hindsight, "Change" is probably not the best word to throw at people scared of having the only life they can imagine altered an iota.

So, for the bored or easily amused, here's a smattering of comments from their site. On the site, a disperportionate number of them begin with "WAKE UP PEOPLE!" and tell you what Jesus would want and choose to not believe that Obama's life was in danger before they predictably devolve into threats about poop and death. First Amendment, yo!

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