Screaming Anger and hatred

THE SCREAMING ANGER AND HATRED of conservative talk radio is not nearly as unsettling as the apparent fact that enough people listen to it to make it profitable. This is disconcerting. The United States of Anger, conservative style. Anger at the fact of change and progress. Anger that traditions fade away, inevitably.Today's conservatism is yesterday's liberalism. Today's liberalism is tomorrow's conservatism. Equally disconcerting is the probability that most listeners either do not think there is any screaming anger and hatred, or that it is appropriate and justified. Whatever is required to deter the teeming liberal mob. One of the good ole boys likes to claim that liberals consider conservatives a greater threat to America than Islamic terrorists. Guilty as charged. Conservtive American terrorists kill over twice as many Americans, on American soil, each year than do the Islamic variety. Chalk up nine more in Charleston. It is also fashionable for conservative talk radio hate mongers to point out that the democratic party in the south upheld slavery, opposed emancipation, promulgated Jim Crow, and fought strenously against the civil rights movement adn legislation. whay they fail to mention is that said democrats had one more thing in common, other than party membership; they were all conservatives. Not liberals, conservatives. Oh yes, there was a time when there were many conservatives in the democratic pary, mostly in the south, just as there was a time, in the early sixties, when the democratic party was the party of lower taxes, and the republican party was the party of higher taxes. Support for slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation and racial discrimmination were, and still are, conservative, not liberal values. the libs wanted to end slavery, and wanted to integrate everyone into mainstream society. Lyndon Johnson, by forcing civil rights legislation down the throats of democratic conservatives, handed the American south to the republicans, he believed, for fifty years. The fifty years are up, with no end in sight. When democrats cycle through to conservatism, they might regain it.