If you thought that you’d seen it all in American politics, now Right wing radio and the Republican party are encouraging their supporters to become hostile mobs at town hall meetings about health care. Rather than encourage meaningful debate, we are instead getting mobs hanging people in effigy, bringing tombstones with the names of Congresspeople on them, and otherwise threatening anyone who favors the expansion of health care.

These ugly tactics, which are remarkably fascist in orientation, are being deployed once again to scare Americans. And what is the danger, you ask? It is some form of universal health care.

Please, let’s have a real debate, not attempts at intimidation from the right. How pathetic.

Health Debate Turns Hostile at Town Hall Meetings – NYTimes.com.