No longer can we simply dismiss the McCain campaign as “rallying the base” or “politics as usual.” The times have changed. For the worse. Every responsible politician, and particularly John McCain, needs to step back and say “Am I encouraging a mob?” We are in the worst economic times perhaps in 70 years. People are angry and in pain. They are losing their jobs, their homes and their savings. They are looking for people to blame. They still fear for their safety. They are looking for ways to release their frustrations.
John McCain and Sarah Palin, instead of “Country First,” take the “get elected first” approach. They associate their opposition with terrorism here and abroad. They associate him with being “different.” “Do you really know who he is?” the ask. They are encouraging and exploiting the fear, the anger, the frustration and it is getting worse.
What they are doing is evil. That’s right – evil. Not just wrong. Not just bad. Not just politics. Exploiting otherwise decent people and using their fears, pain and frustration to unleash them on others with different names or different skin colors or different religious beliefs is evil. That’s not what American politicians do. That’s what Adolf Hitler did. And he did it when people were afraid and angry and losing their jobs and their life savings.
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