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This is the problem I have with the hard-Right where President Obama is concerned (Rush, Hannity, Levin, Coultier, etc). Free speech is one thing, critisize the man's policies if you must, but my goodness! These folks hide behind free speech so much so that they take no responsibility for their outward display of disrespect for the office of the Presidency and insight hatred for partisan gains. It's so shameful.
It's a really new thing, and I wonder how it's going to effect our society in the future.
Most parents from both sides of the aisle have traditionally expected and modeled common decency for their children; of the folks I've known who encouraged their children to "question authority" in my generation, most were hardcore leftists.
Now we're seeing the opposite: the conservative Right is teaching their children- by word and by example- to question authority.
Perhaps the lunatic fringe (Ruby Ridge, Branch Davidians, etc) always did, but now even the mainstream right wing is doing it.
I fear we're going to see a lot of the children of the conservative Right doing poorly in school and getting in trouble with the law, because they have been raised to believe that it's correct to disregard rules and openly defy authority, if you don't agree with it.