Once again, the active right fights more with its own imagination than anything else:
I’m sort of fascinated by the latest ACORN conspiracy theory, that ACORN activists are crashing right wing “tea parties” in order to sabotage them. I’m fascinated, because like Steve Benen, I don’t know anyone who actually cares about these things. Obama’s approval rating is in the 60s. The country is growing more optimistic about his presidency. I could see being concerned about the tea parties if they legitimately comprised some sort of mass movement centered around widespread public discontent with the president, but it just seems to be a bunch of sour grapes from hardcore conservatives who would hate Obama no matter what. The far right also seems to have a hard time mobilizing without an evil enemy, someone to hate.
Check out the rest, as Ezra Klein walks it back to – yes – a single post on the internet.   It’s just a part of a real blossoming of the wingers imaginations, lately. Community service is slavery! They’re going to put us in camps! There’s a New World Order coming! Or maybe it’s not so much imagination, as following a script. Because I’ve seen this story before, in the early 90s- service is slavery, they’re going to round us up, the New World Order is upon us! Same shit, different administrations.