bad people rewarded

Rewarded for bad behavior! Seems the more we watch television with its unending and endless despicable display of reality shows, listen to the irresponsible, untactful, insulting tidbits of faux news by FOX, or read via the Internet or newspapers the stories of mean spirited, bigoted, biased bastards demanding and dishing…we all end up with the same conclusion, bad people are getting rewarded for bad behavior.

Suddenly those with fewer scruples, little stability, less ethics and no morals are the heroes and heroines of US society. They are belligerent, bitchy, boisterous and blatantly self absorbed and selfish. Yet they become cult idols and the more their popularity grows the meaner their moods grow.

And now, it seems the most venomous and vicious people running for government offices in this country have won their Republican/Tea Bag primaries. They speak against most things Constitutional, love to divide the “we” from “they”, use their definition of Christianity to defend good and bad as if Jesus spoke to them personally, drop racist, homophobic, religious innuendo, threaten the democratic process by stating the Second Amendment will be used if the ballot box fails, raise problems with few resolutions, and discard fact and replace it with fiction.

Poster children for these supposedly “of the people” politicians are people like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Jim DeMint, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich. This group of self defined prophets likes to fabricate the truth, rewrite history, speak as if they were one of the lemmings like lost tribes of Americans wanting help, and walk away having opened the bottle for a very evil genie to appear. They speak in tomes of red, white and blue reciting the Bible as their source of strength, and never own up to their lies even when confronted with such via video or audio. And somehow all of these cowards, get a free pass, and are hardly ever pushed for honesty or sincerity.

They are smart enough to yell fire in the theater just before they find the exits for themselves and leave the ensuing chaos behind. They are smart enough to understand the fears and bigotries, hates and loathing of those who feel as if they are victims from some unseen force, and they are smart enough to leave as little DNA on the crime scene seeming to almost get away with murder.

They are supported in their efforts by wealthy folk like the Koch brothers, who know that keeping a nation divided permits more capital for the wealthy, FOX News which is an arm of the Republican party with no retribution from the FCC, insecure pastors and preachers who are more concerned about their own lives and want to keep the fold unthinking, and Americans who now see that hating out loud has no consequences.

In one news article after another we are told just how revved up and ready the Tea Bagger, Neo Cons, non middle of the road Republican are, and how everyone else could care less. People who in more sane times would be considered insane asylum candidates now roam the streets and avenues freely holding news conferences to spew lies and are NEVER asked to account for their misspoken actions and deeds. We have the party of NO tasting the meal of control of the Congress, never offering solutions just providing derailments and detours. We have bad people, malicious people, being rewarded for bad behavior.

I am not pleased with the Democratic majority missing a back bone. I am not pleased with promises made by the candidates in the 2008 election, not being honored. I am not pleased with the wishy-washy sometimes self directed policies of the party in power. But I at least find these men and women closer to finding a solution then creating a problem. I know the baby steps by the Democrats have been slow to little to lame, but they at least are moving, and the majority of Republicans/Tea Baggers have stood still, stagnant… moving away from consensus and closer to confusion.

So the enthusiasm of the Democrats, the educated, the middle class, the minorities, we are told has waned from the hey days of ‘change we can count on’. So the vigor and vitality of those who voted in the Democrats supposedly has diminished. So, we gave this Congress two years to totally change eight years of self serving, hedonistic, gluttonous greedy policies. So what! I am scared of the winners in the Republican/Tea Baggers party primaries. Most or all of these candidates want to rescind freedoms, want to permit a larger rift in haves and have not’s, want to make this nation a Christian nation, want to discriminate. I am terrified that the lax and lazy observance of people who could make a difference in the 2010 elections are just sitting idle as the tide of hate floods this country.

I am so tired of rewards for bad people. I am so tired of rewarding them with bonus checks, large salaries, permission to lie, cheat, and squander. I am tired of rewards for bad people, rewarding bad people. When do the good people win?