'Lord of the Flies' mentality

A reader's comment to the "Desperately Seeking Free Republic" post referenced below. (Another reader commented that Markos, of Daily Kos, has his roots in the right wing and that he has reverted to them.) (The same would apply to John Aravosis at AmericaBlog and perhaps to the folks at The Stephanie Miller Show.) ("Funny how right wing politics and smearing go hand in hand. When Kos was progressive, his site was a beacon; now that he's reverted, it's just Little Orange Footballs.")

Thank you for this post. It has been amazing to me how the progressive blogs, especially DK, have gone completely into the gutter this campaign season. Historical analysis awaits after the election, and it definitely won't be pretty. The DK site has become Lord of the Flies - a mob mentality that is very ugly. Their traffic is up, but not because interesting new people have come to the site. Instead, rational and interesting people have fled and they've been replaced by an influx of angry frat boys and hatemongers. I swear, you get the feeling over there that if any of them were placed in a room with Clinton, they might literally rip her to shreds. It's pure aggression and violence.

But the last straw was that post by Markos - how completely ridiculous. He has embarrassed himself beyond repair at this point. In addition to being vapid and stupid, that post was the most irresponsible thing I've seen from him - a deliberate attempt to incite more hatred, with empty accusations of racism. I asked where the evidence was for those charges, and was immediately flamed by hundreds who claimed "well where is the evidence against?" Apparently that is the new standard for the reality-based community - say anything you want, no evidence required, the burden of proof is on the accused to prove it didn't happen. Meanwhile, the damage has been done, and the hatred feels more justified than ever.

They seem to just *need* to hate her, and they go about finding ways to rationalize that hatred. I am disgusted.