When do we begin to understand that those who keep on chanting and chastising and complaining about our culture are the boggy men in disguise?
When do we catch on to the malicious marketing tactics of those who want to keep the masses uneducated, underemployed, and overly anxious? Who wish to patronize the individuals who can't figure out fiction from fact? Who know that the less of the truth you tell the more of the lie lays waiting to trap and confuse?
When do we fight fire with honesty and ethic? When do we squelch the symphonies from psychopaths who turn into sycophants and rally against the rich and powerful only to become elitist and wealthy themselves?
When do we stop believing that the Tea Party Movement represents the real need of an average American but instead is a showcase for bigots and unhappy humans who blame anyone but themselves for their sad existence?
When does the Independent voter stop pretending that it makes sense to consider members of the Republican Party as wanting to do anything for this country but continue his/her job as a Senator, Congressperson or Governor or as a recipient of Lobbyists?
When do we stop listening as the Christian Right crusade to save the souls of those THEY deem as dangerous, while they (the Christian Right) build mega churches, build higher and higher Ivory Towers, and refuse to do God's word but relish in the fact of doing human damage?
When do we begin to ask that truth be spoken? When do we acknowledge it is the fear of change that frightens us, not the idea of change? When do we admit that consensus means listening, debating, asking, sharing? When do we realize that differences does not create distance? When do we try to find common ground and not separate paths?
When is it too late to return to our senses? When do we stop letting history repeat itself? When do we rediscover that talk of secession created the Civil War of the 1860's, that denial of rights caused civil unrest of the 1960's, that the trickle down tax theory caused our civilization to dramatically drown the poor and delight the rich in the 1980's, and that calling people Communists only made the bully's bolder in the 50's and calling people Socialists and Nazi's in the 2010's permits extremists the chance to hide the truth?
I am afraid that once the genie is out of the bottle, once pandora's box has been opened, once the ignorant shout louder than the smart, once the innuendo replaces the truth, once those who hate become the hero we all suffer and nothing gets back to normal.
I am afraid if we pretend not to care, decide not to ask, relegate the facts to the fools, agree that falsehoods and fables are fine, ignore the intelligent, want quick remedy, feel free to divide and conquer, then American life, American Democracy dies.
Who is next to be hated, to be chastised, to be labeled as bad? Who is next to be anti American, the anti Christ, anti good?
When do we finally fear the fear monger and fight back? When?
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