Looking at the gathering crowds and the Main Stream Media (MSM) coverage of the event, it’s remarkable how much discourse the right can generate without many calling them to task. For starters there are a number of posters at the protests that speaks volumes that many of these people are not to be taken seriously, well seriously in the fact that they are against government spending or anything of that nature, but more so just against Obama and Democrats. Some of these photos can be found here at NPR, Think Progress, and searching through Flickr. Safe to say that a lot of what is making noise is straight up racism, bigotry, and quite frankly sore loser syndrome.

But to those that have a genuine gripe against Washington spending, a lot of those people identifying themselves as Republicans, where were you from 1/2001-1/2009? Where were you when the largest bureaucracy devised, the Department of Homeland Security, was formed? Where where you when we spent Billions of taxpayer dollars, dollars that the White House hid from the general budget, to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? And did these same people embrace Obama when he demanded cuts in useless military spending? Something tells me no.

No, these protests, are just a farce of the real issue, the bubbling turmoil from the right. The people that would take up arms against their fellow American because their person is not in office. These same people that idolize the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck, and listen to their beckon call to protest without really understanding the specifics of their cause.

Civil debate in the country seems to be taking a turn for the worse. While there are legitimate concerns about the course of American political power, and that rings true for both parties, all that happens is partisan bickering, all that happens is shouting down your opponent when you don’t have the facts to back the screams, all that happens is soured relations between opposing ideals.

And it’s funny that these protesters are seemingly taking it out on a pragmatic president, one that is constantly reaching his arm across the aisle for bipartisan support, where the previous president snubbed any efforts of conciliation and just rammed policy through.

I fear that these protests will grow, that the bigotry that is starting to flow will come faster than people think will happen. I fear that ills of our nation will go unsolved because there are some that simply refuse to break bread with their political opponents. I fear that we will have more turmoil than the nation can truly handle.