arrogance

Arrogance is never noticed by the ignorant. It is many times misinterpreted as sticking up for one's rights, or speaking loudly all the privately held biased and bigoted thoughts hidden inside your small visioned world, or just statements supposedly being spoken on behalf of the downtrodden.

Arrogance is a manner of speech used by powerful people who want to maintain control over others. They never want to earn the power they hold, but need to deny power to anyone else.

Arrogance is quoting selected scenarios from the Bible, choosing selections you want to teach but ignoring the rest of the lesson your limited passage supposes. Arrogance is stating that only you are the receiver of God's message, and that God speaks only to your morals and ethics.

Arrogance is saying that rape is not really RAPE and in most cases that in fact women are to blame for a man's God given right to claim his chattel. Arrogance is slaughtering doctors who perform abortions for women who for personal reasons request them, saying as they load their guns, its for the kids, but then never spend one minute more on the welfare of that child when he/she is born into poverty or a broken home.

Arrogance is to stand on your soapbox and spew hate for unions, poor people, unemployed saying they are freeloaders, lazy,Un-American as you secretly receive lobbyist dollars from billionaires who know nothing but the black ink of their bottom lines. Arrogance is to speak about the Constitution as you deny rights for people living in this country who don't look like you, pray like you have sex like you and speak like you.

Arrogance is being Gay and saying that issues like marriage equality don't really count it's a state by state issue. Arrogance is being Gay and just because you are in the closet and self loathing assume other Gays should be the same. Arrogance is being a man and defining family planning, reproductive rights for the female assuming it is just a female silly fling like hot flashes when they must endure an abortion. Arrogance is saying, jobs, jobs, jobs, deficit, deficit, deficit and spending your time trying to stop health care for most, reproductive rights for women, breaking unions, denying gay marriage, and re-defining the separation of church and state. Arrogance is fooling the lemming and patting yourself on the back for just how stupid they seem.

Arrogance is the smug attitude of those who decided not to vote in the last election saying who cares, or they are all bums, or whatever happens in politics does not affect me. Arrogance is looking at this country in 2011 and not doing anything to stop the madness.

Arrogance is never noticed by the ignorant and accepted by the insecure.