Somewhere along the way, American’s have turned inward, fearful of anything that does not look, sound or hate as they do. Somewhere along the way, the only way to solve a problem is to find a boogie man, a scapegoat a victim for which to place blame. Somewhere along the way inclusion is like revulsion, exclusion manna from heaven, and “we vs. they” the next line in after “we the people.”
Suddenly the haters, the bigots, the deniers identifying themselves as Christian Conservatives, Tea Baggers, and Republicans are making a list and checking it twice. Unlike Santa Clause these lists are for the naughty not the nice. These lists are filled with thou shall not, thou shall never, thou better govern under blackmail or thou shall not be elected.
So what happens if these zealots who base fact on fiction, reality on fear, choice on approved thinking, actually win the majority of votes in the 2012 election? So what happens to the Constitution which is so blatantly bandied about as the 6th book of Moses, or the word according to the Gospel when this group of self serving serfs funded by billionaires takes control of the government of the United States? So what happens to the words "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation (under God---added in 1954 to help fight the Communists), indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”, when the justice for all part is up for grabs?
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Sunday that communities have a right to ban Islamic mosques. (msnbc.com) Mr. Cain is an African American; the communities in the South at one time felt they had the right to ban the ‘colored’ from using drinking fountains, bathrooms, and even certain property. Those communities felt, based on their interpretation of everything from the New Testament, to the Constitution, to their families personal bias that denial of anything black fit in perfect harmony to make their community safer, or was that more American.
Cain said his view doesn't amount to religious discrimination because he says Muslims are trying to inject Shariah law into the U.S. (msnbc.com) The Roman Catholic Church, based in Vatican City is all about passing its law against gay marriage, gay adoption, gay rights. The Catholic Church has deemed any abortion illegal pressing people in this country to abide by its law. Somehow the Vatican seems eager as ever to have its interpretation of its Canon Law, the law of the land.
"Let's go back to the fundamental issue that the people are basically saying that they are objecting to," Cain said. "They are objecting to the fact that Islam is both religion and (a) set of laws, Shariah law. That's the difference between any one of our other traditional religions where it's just about religious purposes. (msnbc.com) The Fundamentalists Christians of this nation are busy trying to place their religious practices as the law of this nation. The Fundamentalist Christians are trying to make into law their church practices by disallowing women to have freedom over their reproductive rights, disallow same sex marriage. For the Fundamentalist Christians there should only be one law, their law when it comes to reproduction and marriage. The Fundamentalist Christians see no division between church and state as long as the state adopts its religion as the religion of the land.
Herman Cain, running for President from the Republican/Bagger ticket is just one of the poster boys and girls wanting to be President for some of the people some of the time. He is smart enough to exaggerate the fears of uneducated, delusional, bigoted people, who never point to themselves for answers to problems, but love to place blame on their failings on anyone else. Many may say who is Herman Cain, but no matter his notoriety or not he is speaking the words, dancing the dance and flaming the fires of hate for a group of people who do not respect anyone or anything perceived different than they.
There is a mutiny going on in this Nation. And it seems soon no one will be an innocent bystander, and many of us will be taken prisoner. I wonder what the definition is of people who know a disaster is avoidable, but do nothing to stop it?
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