Guess I missed this from last week but right wing Republican terrorist Michael Savage whose real name is Michael Wiener claimed on his radio show that concentration camps were being built and the National Guard is going to run them.
His radio show is heard by 8-10 million people every day. So not only do Republicans think Obama is an illegitimate, foreign-born, socialist enemy that wants to setup death panels to kill undesirables, they now believe he already has concentration camps being built to intern those who oppose him.
This is no exaggeration either. Here is a so-called pastor in Florida writing that he saw Obama's concentration camps while flying over Colorado. A preacher actually telling his followers that concentration camps are being built to intern Christians and conservatives. These are the people we are supposed to include in the health care debate? Their whole Party is a conspiracy theory and when preachers get their talking points from Michael Savage it is indeed a cult. Just face it, they are not an opposition party. They are a cult.
*Update:
As digby so eloquently lays out, cultish right wing Republican behavior is not a "bug" but an actual aspect of their movement. Where else can people who so deny reality be considered so mainstream except here in America whose largest media outlet is the gatekeeper to the Republican Fantasy World.
There's absolutely no reason to include such people in any debate unless we're talking about lining their living rooms with rubber. There's no sense in actuating their conspiracy theories. They are a sick lot. Rotten to their core. Getting the conversation back to a "basic sanity" is entirely easy when you refuse to acknowledge the sun revolves around the earth.
