Remember that recurring scene in George Orwell's 1984 when Party members would gather for their mandatory morning "Five Minutes Hate," when Big Borher would summon them to direct their collective anger at a scapegoat named Goldstein? Seems like life is imitating art at every John McCain campaign rally, with Barack Obama playing the role of a modern-day Goldstein. Middle fingrs are being raised at reporters and intermittent yells of "socialist!" and "terrorist!" are being yelled when Obama's name is being mentioned. It's one thing for Big Brother McCain to be one angry dude, acting like a petulant 2-year-old whose mommy and daddy told him he can't have what he wants, but it's another thing entirely when his followers carry on the same way. And just as this Washington Post story tells it, what do Republican crowds do when whipped into a frenzy? Repeatedly chant "USA!" of course. How dare they use the name of the country we're part of an love and use it for their hateful rage?
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