Palin ushers in Season of the Witch

By Wally Hayman via Daily Kos - A Brief Treatise on the Palin Effect
Like their Medieval ancestors, the late 17th Century Puritans of Massachusetts Colony created a Theocratic and political bastion of prejudice and fear. They fled from the monolith of Calvinism only to create their own monolith of religious and social intolerance.
The Puritans were obsessed with the hidden World of Evil. They were threatened by people “not like them,” decimated by plague, ravaged by climate change and starved by crop failure. In their most desperate and abject ignorance, Witchcraft became the perceived enemy du jour. Read on.