| Michelle Bachmann held a press conference on the steps of the Capital last Thursday. It was called a press conference because she failed to get a permit for a rally. Freedom loving Americans won't allow legal technicalities to get in the way of their right to threaten anybody they see as un-American.
This press conference was made to show the power of the mob.
Bachmann loves the mob. It's this mob that gives her power and she feeds it and it feeds her.
The mob is mindless, angry and confused and in it Bachmann feels that the mob can give her the power that the democratic system has denied her.
The mob sends her money and brings her fame. The mob is followed by TV cameras and Bachmann was made for TV. In The State Senate and the U.S. Congress her vote is meaningless, she has yet to author, co sponsor or sign onto a single meaningful bill, a failure by any definition of the word.
But on the street she has power. The mob shouts that that the President is both a Marxist and National Socialist and Bachmann smiles and tells them they are "beautiful" and they love her for it. The mob says the President is not an American and Bachmann tells them that they need to be armed and dangerous and they have been waiting years to hear that. The mob says the president is both a Muslim and part of the Jewish conspiracy and Bachmann tells them to go forth and spread the word.
Bachmann didn't create the mob, that job was done by others most notably Fox News. But Bachmann saw that the mob had no leader and that opportunity was hers for the taking.
History is filled with examples where the mob elevated their leader to power. The signs that the mob is carrying show two examples of the mob giving power, Hitler and Mao. The irony that they are using the same technique that elevated these tyrants is lost on them but not on her.
A mob feeds on hate and Bachmann is a master at channeling their fears. Turning the mobs anger towards minorities is her stock and trade and she wouldn't be standing here today if she hadn't mastered it.
The tea baggers are the mother lode of modern mobs. It's the first corporate sponsored mob in history since the 3rd Crusade. She's brought them here under the pretext of opposing a bill. But she knows that they are here for a very different reason.
They are here because they fear the future. They say they are here because the future will be controlled by a god hating Muslim, Jewish, Rev. Wright Christian, Maoist, Nazi, new world order liberal. They are really here because of racism. And in Bachmann home district there is no problem with that.
Bachmann and her mob have no equal. There is no effective response to the mob because the opponents dismiss the mob. They continue to cling to the hope that sanity and reason will prevail and it's that hope that allows the mob to grow unchecked.
"Bachmann is crazy" they say, yet she has not lost an election since her first for school board many years ago. Bachmann knows that she will find plenty of demons for the mob to hate and feed on while her opponents will bank on moderation to inspire their campaigns. In the end as Bachmann knows, hate wins. |
