power to the people

I have, more often than not, harangued, hooted and hollered about politicians running for office, being elected to office or radio/news entertainers who like to create the news rather then report it. I have expressed my viewpoint as to how dangerous, damaging or destructive the prose and policies of these people seems to me. And I have mentioned how exclusive and extreme all these men and women seem to be in promoting we vs. they, us vs. them, good vs. bad.

I know that most of these individuals have never heard my hue and cry, and I am sure the men and women who support the campaigns or careers of these scoundrels have never read word one of my blog. But nonetheless as a means of venting, expressing, identifying fact from fiction, truth from lies, common sense from uncommon indecency I feel secure at my attempt to lay claim to their lies. And I would eagerly debate anyone of the people who hate so much as to cause divide and conquer, who hide behind false prophecy, cancerous religious dogma, smoke and mirrors! I know this will never happen, but one day when Keith Olbermann is ill, or Lawrence O’Donnell needs a day off, or Rachel Maddow is on assignment I am available.

Yesterday, Bill O’ Reilly, stated that one of the only reasons Anders Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist, used his extreme measures against the Norwegian people, was because he was afraid of the rise of Islam in Europe and that the Muslim jihadists were at the root of all civil disobedience. O’Reilly then stated that a true Christian would never create such heinous actions or devastation. It was, according to O’Reilly the fault of the Muslims for pushing poor Mr. Bleivik to his wits end. It was not a Christian thing to do, bombing innocents, murdering innocents. But Mr. O’Reilly who encouraged the taking of doctors lives who performed abortions or the harassing of the women who sought medical advise regarding an abortion thought that the taking of those innocent lives in the name of Christianity was fine and dandy!. He never mentions the millions of Muslims who do not believe that terrorism and the murder of innocents is un-God like either. Not to be outdone, Glenn Beck, now left to his own devises on his radio propaganda hour, stated that in fact, the camp that 70 some kids were slaughtered and murdered was like a Nazi Youth Camp, so being that the kids were congregating for something assumed to be bad, bad things happening to them was inevitable. Mr. Beck scolded the limp wristed liberals saying they did not look at the real reason innocent kids were killed like animals because if they had then we might actually thank Anders Breivik for doing his job for democracy. Mr. Beck also said camps for kids for political reasons was a true dig at democracy, but forgot to mention the over 70 summer camps set up by the Tea Party to indoctrinate those youth to their political vent exist.

And then there is the sudden rise in popularity of the Governor of Texas, who under his tutelage has had the Texas State School Board rewrite their history books disallowing any mention of the gains made by blacks or Hispanics in the area of civil rights, and having historians add that in creating this nation our forefathers indeed wanted this nation to be a Christian country. According to Texas history there was never a divide between church and state. He also decided that it was time for The Response, Texas Gov. Rick Perry's pray-to-Jesus-to-save-America event which is scheduled to be held in a Houston stadium next month. This event is for Evangelical card caring Christians only, no other religious leader or denomination need apply. The cleansing of America is needed and any homophobic, anti Catholic, haters of Mormonism, anti Islamists, women are our chattel loving Christians are welcome, no one else. Mr. Perry who has not even tossed his hat into the Republican race is in second place as a popular candidate.

I could go on and should, but the point of this blog has come to me like a whack on the side of my head. I can call out haters, liars, religious bigots, domestic terrorists who are politicians or entertainers purveyors of fear, but they, I realize are not the boogie men/women to be scared of. They are the preverbal tip of the iceberg. The real scary people are the voters who want bigots and haters to be in office, the listeners in their homes who swoon on every fable, fiction and fact less tidbit told in order to blame others for their own misfortune. It is not he purveyors from a top their pulpit who use Gods name to justify their own insecurities, it is the congregants who Sunday after Sunday sit in the pews and instead of reading the Bible let the Bible be read to them.

It is the cowards, the bullies, the self victimizing American population whose only recourse in life is to attack that permit the O’Reilly’s the Becks, the Perry’s of this nation to succeed. It is the hooligans who use Gods name not his deeds as weapons of mass destruction, and it is the lazy, the lemming, the loser who permit anyone but themselves to think for them. I have to understand it is not the tip of the iceberg that can cause so much harm, rather the deep roots, the hidden traps, the vile and venomous part of the iceberg so menacing and unseen that causes the havoc.

An anti Semite, a homophobe, an anti women’s rights, a segregationist, an anti Islamism, an anti unionist politician or media entertainer can only reach the pinnacles of power if the people select or elect for that to happen. So the boogie man is only a puppet of the people giving her/him the power. Now that is something to really be scared about.

Power to the people, but what if the people have no idea just how powerful they have become.