The Return Of The Republican Binary Worldview

And actually, it's less of a return and more of an expansion.  Oh, the worldview is still binary.  It's just been focused inward to the country's domestic population as the Teabaggers got busy again this weekend...this time with guns!

Nearly 350 right-wing protestors crowded a New Mexico town’s busiest intersection yesterday to protest President Obama’s supposed anti-gun agenda and the “government takeover of our health care system.” While the event mostly looked like any other recent right-wing rally — complete with signs reading “replace the communists in DC” and “the sky is falling! A black man is president!” — what set this protest apart was that there “were plenty of handguns and rifles displayed.”

The local Tea Party and a group called the Second Amendment Task Force (2ATF, a reference to the ATF, which enforces gun laws) encouraged people to bring guns to the event in Alamogordo, NM, in order to “put a positive light on gun ownership,” said 2ATF’s founder Dan Woodruff. While the two protests were technically separate, they were planned together for the same day in adjacent locations. Otero Tea Party Patriots coordinator Don Omey said he was “proud” of the gun-toters. “That’s what we need to turn some minds around,” Omey said. Under New Mexico law, it’s legal for anyone over the age of 19 to open-carry a holstered firearm in most public places.

Howdy, pardner!

Yes, because as we all know, openly displaying a loaded firearm is a really good way to get people to change their minds about you.

Ahh, but here's Newtie to remind us what's really at stake:

This was not the first right-wing protest to which people have brought guns or displayed offensive signs, but the hate-filled atmosphere at Tea Party rallies doesn’t seem to bother former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In a guest-column in the Des Moines Register on Friday he wrote, “every American who is not corrupted by the secular-socialist left should be a member of the Tea Party movement.”

You're either with the Teabaggers...or you're with the enemy.  And the enemy of course is that black guy.  Now, this is Newt Gingrich saying this.  He should have his Village credentials revoked and be laughed off the air...and yet there's nothing a Republican can ever say to get the Village to stop treating them with ultimate deference.

Meanwhile, Gingrich has defined everyone who is not a Teabagger to be a corrupt Leftist.  Stop and think about this.  He has defined hundreds of millions of Americans as the Enemy.  He's warning us that the time to pick sides is now, you'd better pick a side, and to pick the right one.  If you don't, well....the Tea Party guys have guns, you see.

Think about that here in the New Year.