The New Media Journal | Political Violence in America by Paul R. Hollrah

The New Media Journal | Political Violence in America by Paul R. Hollrah: "Since the signing of the Democrats’ healthcare monstrosity, and before, polls have consistently shown that Barack Obama is taking his party down the road to annihilation. Those same polls show that the party is now more unpopular than at any time since its founding in the 1830s.

In an attempt to avoid what promises to be an unprecedented political thrashing in the mid-term elections, Obama and other Democrat leaders have adopted a policy of painting all Republicans and all Tea Party participants as violent racial bigots. Yes, several Democrat congressmen have reported receiving threatening phone calls and a number of Tea Party participants have vented their anger on Democrats as they made their way through the crowds outside the U.S. Capitol. That is indicative of the level of anger that they have created, but it simply is not possible to make the giant leap from a few isolated incidents of “venting” to real threats of bodily harm.

In American politics there are three distinct kinds of people. First, there are those who make little or no effort to evaluate the issues or the candidates; they simply go to the polls on Election Day, weather permitting, and pull the lever for every Democrat on the ballot. Second, there are those who feel they’ve done their civic duty when they have evaluated the candidates and the issues and they’ve cast what they feel is an informed ballot on Election Day. And finally, there are those who are the foot soldiers of our republic...those who not only study the issues in great detail, but who recruit the candidates, contribute the money, walk the precincts, man the phones, manage the campaigns, run for office, and get out the vote on Election Day."