You aren't kidding. Prior to the election, perhaps in very early 2008, I met up with a few old friends in Ohio (I've since moved back to Tennessee). One of them sounded like a crazed communist Nazi - I mean he was screaming about how bad things were under Bush and how the workers had to rise up and all that union thuggery-speak (I wonder how he feels now that Obambi has all but destroyed the nation's economy).
The thing is, he's not some young kid that didn't know any better - he's around 50 or so, and grew up among the same people I grew up with - lots of eastern European families that fled communism when the Soviet Union was being formed post WW-II. He, above all people, should have known better.
He, and many others, are this "messianic audience". Unbelievably angry, and unbelievably naive.
It's amazing - in my younger years, we thought that something like the rise of Hitler could never happen in this country, and yet, we're seeing many of the preceding steps being taken by this administration and congress - the same steps that Germany went through in the 1930's.
My brother is 57, our parents fled communism in Eastern Europe, and our grandfather, aunts, uncles and cousins lived behind the Iron Curtain all through our childhood. Yet my otherwise intelligent and kind brother supports Zero, and in fact thinks he's too moderate. Child of the 1960's . . . I've never quite understood it. I think it's the green agenda that has had the greatest impact on him. He's a nature lover, and would like to see everything remain pristine.