Nightmare Daily Quote

This is for Rush, Michelle, Glen, the birthers, the deathers, and guys like this who Dan Savage fingered on Keith for "actively and, consciously or subconsciously, trying to get, I’m just gonna say it, trying to get the President killed." People who don't care about the atmosphere of hatred they create and the permission they give and the violence they incite, or the devastation they can cause a world, a nation, a generation, and a family... It's from Sixty Days and Counting, a novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, in which a President named Phil Chase is the victim of an assassination attempt:

"In reaction to it they would all mouth the same platitudes they had said before. The lone assasin would turn out to be a nonentity, hardly noticed by anyone before, and no one would point out that the constant spew of hatred against Phil in the ring-wing media had created the conditions for such madmen, perhaps had even directly inspired this one, just as no one had said it about the Oklahoma City bomber back in the interregnum between the end of the Cold War and 9/11, when for lack of anything better to hate the hatred had been directed at the federal government. Their culture was a petri dish in which hatred and murder were bred on purpose by people who intended to make money from it. And so it had happened again, and yet the people who had filled the madmen's addled mind with ideas, and filled his hand with the gun, and even now were sneering in the commentaries that Chase had risked it after all, daring so much, flouting so much, the only suprise was that it hadn't happened sooner--these people would never acknowledge or even fully understand their complicity."