picture this

Picture this: A man married three times, who has declared bankruptcy a few times, doesn't quite know how many people are in the Congress, isn't sure what Roe V. Wade is all about, and wants to tell the Chinese Government "you're fired" wants to run for President and is taken seriously because above all else his bigotry and bias against the black President resonates above everything and anything else that defines who he is.

Picture this: A transgendered woman is attacked coming out of restroom at McDonald's and while she is beaten to nearly the end of her life, the clerk at McDonald's is laughing and filming away instead of calling the police or intervening against the attack. The two women who viciously attack her are pissed because she is transgendered so they feel rightfully right in kicking and beating her.

Picture this: A group of people who feel that same-sex marriage is icky and awful based on nothing else but their own prejudices and priorities who loved the public eye and the public ear, want to suddenly hush up any and all comments stated under oath a they try to keep the Gays from marrying. They suddenly become the victim when asked for truth and fact, but when asked to demonstrate how they explain truth and fat in court under oath they want to silence anything they say.

Picture this: A group of politicians complain that jobs, jobs, jobs and the deficit have gone badly and under the two year governance of Democrats has taken America on the road to ruin by making government too BIG. They harangued and harassed the electorate providing fictional facts and tuns of scare tactics and warmed of dire consequences if we did not concentrate on jobs, jobs, jobs and the deficit. And remarkably once elected, the same politicians first need to deny women reproductive rights, working people decent wages and benefits, Muslims the right to the freedom of religion, and of course equal instead of equal but separate.

Picture this: In America of 2011 we are discussing larger government when it comes to our bodies, our religious beliefs, our ability to earn a decent wage, our ability to marry and raise a family. In America of 2011 we are permitting bigoted people to run for President, the ultra wealthy to dictate policy, false prophets broadcast hate and fear. In America 2011 suddenly child labor laws, choice, division between church and state, and differences are taboo and terrible and threatening.

Picture this: If we permit all of this madness to continue, 2012 will certainly live up to its Mayan reputation of being the end of life as we know it.