Conservatives who don't like the direction Congress and Obama are taking are now deemed unhealthy for the current administration. Las Cruces Sun-News/ Norm Dettlaff/APIt's enough to give any conservative a persecution complex.
Earlier this week, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, issued a document that identified certain conservative ideals as radical and potentially dangerous. The list included military veterans as potentially dangerous.
The release of the document coincided with Tea Parties all across the country - conservatives protesting massive government spending by Congress and the president. Most news outlets ignored or gave lip service to the protests. Some news agencies, such as CNN and MSNBC, spent too much time making fun of the protests or getting downright angry at the protesters. (See the video of Susan Roesgen of CNN.)
This morning, David Axelrod, a senior advisor to President Obama, told Face the Nation on CBS that
The tea parties organized April 15 to protest massive government spending could "mutate into something that's unhealthy."(Christian Science Monitor)Unhealthy?
When Code Pink protestors threw shoes at White House guards to vent their anger at the outgoing president George Bush, was that unhealthy? When gay activists marched on the Mormon Temple in LA and yelled at innocent churchgoers, was that unhealthy? When immigration protesters stopped Tom Tancredo's speech at UNC Chapel Hill by throwing a rock through the window, was that unhealthy?
Not according to the current administration. Only right wing protests are unhealthy.
These left-leaning liberals are so caught up in their own identity politics that they cannot see past it to any other viewpoints but their own. Axelrod is a prime example. Only protests that he agrees with can possibly be valid. All else is "unhealthy."
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