Awareness As One?

Steve Benen being naive.

Specter's largely right-wing crowd insisted President Obama isn't an American. One nutty man said to applause, "One day, God is going to stand before you and he's going to judge you!" Another yelled, "This is the Soviet Union, this is Maoist China."

One attendee drew a standing ovation when said health care reform is about "dismantling" the United States and "turning" the country "into Russia." She later added that she feared toilet paper rationing.

Someone in the audience wanted to explain that the Qu'ran says that "all unbelievers will be executed." The same person added that if we close Gitmo, "criminals" will "escape" and we'll find "a bunch of innocent people are murdered. And that's what's gonna happen."

We're better than this. We have to be. [highlighted by me]

No Steve, we are not better than that. The Human Race has always had those whom cling to ignorance and stupidity because it is easier to be led about than to lead, easier to accept what is told them than to look for the answers themselves, and to generally be the tools for their own despair.