Fear and hatred are the stock-in-trade of the Rethuglican / New Confederate / Stupid / Shooters Party, and they're once again using it to whip up their fearful and gullible base, with each Presidential candidate trying to one-up the other in inflammatory rhetoric. In the case of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, it resulted in three deaths. There are ominous signs that their rhetoric has prompted some unhinged wingnuts to acts of violence against Muslim Americans, as we noted yesterday. It remains to be seen how much of the public will buy into the same messaging from the Rethugs, but far too many have fallen for it already.
(cartoon: Jeff Stahler, Gocomics.com)
