it's been a slow, dragged out process until Obama became president...then quite rapid...
imo it began with completely demonizing and for the most part, lying about Democrats, liberals, progressive and making them ''the enemy'' and blaming liberals for every little thing and their own woes...then hating hating hating spewed by every one of the hundreds if not thousands of right wing sites....hating on every race, gender, sexual preference, religion other than Christian because they could be Democrats, hating teachers, hating unions, hating hating hating hating hating....
ALL OF THIS has made it easy, to transition in to...
Hating their own...
I'd have respect for Democrats if they applied critical thought to their own Party, they seem far more concerned with winning than facing the realities of liberal failures.
You know the saying, "Two heads are better than one."
Congress and our Nation, was much better off when the two different heads (ways) of thinking, (two different parties) worked WITH each other...always making the "other opinion" the enemy, the antichrist is simply, "Divided we Fall" imo.
Both Parties should be held responsible by honest and informed voters, that seemed to stop in the mid Clinton years.
How can we be informed, when there are so so so so many sites on the net that produce lies and propaganda that get a life of their own?
If all the lies out there put out by the right wing media on Liberals were even remotely true, I would not be a Liberal, I would hate them too.....but I know better because I have the time to research them all, now that I don't work outside of the home any more...
and surely there are liberal sites doing the same thing on conservatives....
It's actually HARDER NOW, with the internet, to be 'well informed' imo....