Far Right Hucksters

A Democrat is president again which means political lunacy is back in vogue.  Just like the cicadas swarm in great numbers every seventeen years reactionary fools converge to the local sports bars to plan the latest peoples' uprising when a liberal leaning president is elected.

A clip of one of one of the meetings is making rounds on the internet.  Local readers will be proud to notice the Copley High School memorabilia in the background.  I'm assuming this was the local gathering of the Glenn Beck 912 viewing party in Fairlawn.

Today's flavor of movement conservatism is a collection of two-bit t-shirt salesman.  Relegated to a series of depraved cottage industries built around a culture of fear and loathing

Here's what they're selling;

• The Tea Party movement is like the new Tupperware party fad. Find the house party nearest to you and show up with a bad attitude about government and a DIY sign. The sale of merchandise is the real pay off. Let's face it these posers will all end up paying their taxes on time.
  

• Your local gun store owner can't hear you over the din of that cash register ringing up sales. A guns and ammo boom is building via the persistent story of a looming federal gun ban. Of course rational people who actually read know that there is no serious move on a gun ban being considered at the national level. At the State level, well just look at what Ohio has done to see the right to bear lots of guns is in no way threatened.
  

• Anything that capitalizes on the fear that Obama is a socialist, communist or the second coming of Hitler is the other growth industry. A hallmark of the loony right is to label anyone diametrically opposed to their world view as a Nazi or Hitler-like. Check out the coverage of the from last week of the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky. to see the latest product line in Obama-is-a-fascist gear.
  

The purveyors of this fringe accoutrement know their prospective buyers can't help themselves. 

There is an entire class of consumers that need to accessorize their paranoia with shirts, books and specialty weapons.  Just marketing the product around buzzwords like collectivism, re-education, brainwashing and sleeper candidate gets the cash registers ringing up sales like it was 1995 all over again.  

I actually yearn for the black helicopter days of yore.  There's a fringe movement you can believe in.