This election is scarey

This election makes me very nervous. The folks attending the republican rallies are getting really scarey. They yell things like "off with his head"! Yikes! That's not cool. Especially in light of what happened in Iraq to kidnap victims. Is this the democracy we want to spread around the world? I don't blame them for not wanting it when they see how we behave over politics.

It's always amazing to me how a liberal and a conservative can hear the same speech, debate, whatever, and hear such totally different things. I mean, I remember the telephone game where one person whispered something into the next person's ear and on down the line. Then the last person says what they heard and the first person says what they said and everyone laughs because it changed so much as it was passed down the line. But, I really don't get what I see today.

I was reading an article talking about the angry crowds at the republican rallies, and when the reporter interviews a couple of attendees they say they aren't angry. It's just frustration. "Off with his head" is frustration? The tone that I hear on the nightly news doesn't sound like just frustration. It sounds like they want to rip someone's head off. It sounds angry.

Hey, I had to suck it up over George Bush ... TWICE! These 8 years have been pretty much hell for me, but I'm not biting off the heads of my conservative friends. I understand frustrated. I've lived frustrated for 8 years. I don't understand what I'm hearing.

We are starting to sound like the Sunni and Shiite and other factions in the middle east. You know, the groups that hate each other enough to go to war and stay at war for generations. We are starting to sound that angry to me and I don't like that one bit. I have a grandson who I love and I don't want that world for him at all.

How the hell did we get here? What's the deal? I really feel that the ultra conservative news outlets have done more to foster this hatred that any other source. They nuture it every day with venom. They whip people into a frenzie ... it's mob mentality with a license.

Can someone else besides me see this? Can we stop this? Probably not. I hope we don't end up like the Sunni and Shiite. I hope we aren't in a war with ourselves that we can't stop.