This is What Democracy Looks Like?

Wisconsin Republicans are receiving death threats.  From the email sent to Scott Fitzgerald:

Mr. Fitzgerald,

I want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me have decided that we’ve had enough. We feel that you and your republican dictators have to die. This is how it’s going to happen: I as well as many others know where you and your family live, it’s a matter of public records. We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head ...

I think this bears more of a resemblance to the behavior of Nazi Brown Shirts than to American democracy.  But maybe that's just me.

Also from the above email:

If you and your goonies feel that it’s necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families and themselves then We will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) the 8 of you.   

Is that what they really think is happening?  Is being required to contribute 5.8% to your pension and 12.6% to your health insurance premiums the "strip[ping] of rights of 300,000 people"?  Does it really ruin their lives?!  

Remember everyone, it's the conservatives and the Tea Partiers in this country who use overheated rhetoric and poison the political debate with their hateful bile.