Again and again, this kind of thread pops up on DU. Its is a kind of bigotry that is based in utter ignorance.
Now we know DU is a collection site for undesirables the Democrats don't want infesting their more public sites. But there is a theme that has been swelling for years.
That theme is the demonization/criminalization of political opponents. Progressives/Liberals today have no love for democracy and wish to replace it. No opposition will be allowed. Take a group of enemies and dehumanizing them to the point of being monsters is a propaganda tool to enslave the ignorant masses. we saw it in Germany, and more recently in Chavez's Venezuela.
If you plan to do terrible things to people, you need to dehumanize them first. Hitler's Jews were sub-human. Farakahn's is white demons. Abortion's victim's aren't babies but viable tissue masses. Ayers is setting up his purge, and the ignorant Brown Shirts of the left will be his willing executioners.
Sorry if I'm a Debbie Downer...But the constant, never ending hate and seething rage at DU (and more threateningly: in the Occupy movement) are building up to something.
(I need a vacation from the DU cesspool)