november 2012

Okay, okay the first thing the candidates running for president in the primaries representing the Republican/Tea Party want to do is repeal the Affordable Health Care Act. The act of having all Americans covered by affordable health care seems to be both UnAmerican and UnChristian. For some reason mandating affordable health care is wrong for Americans. We are told that the free markets can and will handle all out health care needs. We are never told what will happen for those who can’t afford the free market fees for health care or how all these past years permitting the free markets to handle health care costs why so many are uninsured.

We are scolded by the Republican/Tea Party talking heads and politicians that having the first lady, Michelle Obama discuss nutritious foods, healthy eating, exercise is just one more attempt for the dreaded disease of Socialism to creep into our American lives. We are lectured to that if parents want their kids fat and malnourished then so be it as both the Constitution and the Bible tell us so. We are told that the government has no right spying in our kitchens, and certainly less right to act as an intelligent parent. But the government in our bedrooms is a whole different story.

We were told in 2010 that the reason a majority of Republican/Tea Party candidates were swept into office was the Economy Stupid. We were reminded that the old crop of bums needed to be voted out because they misplaced the real agenda of jobs, deficit reduction, and the economy. This new crew of real Americans with real American values would turn this nation topsy-turvy. And in the past two years that the new group of Republican/Tea Party Patriots were elected to run our government, we have seen denial of women’s rights, immigration rights, Gay rights and now voting rights. We have witnessed an attempt to pollute the environment, ignore financial regulations, deny workers a safe workplace and less benefits, and an increase on the 1% getting wealthier and the 99% losing hope for help.

In the past two years this country has seen an increase in the rise of “hate groups” based on anti Black, Gay, Immigrant, Muslim hate and now religious intolerance. We have seen men and women empowered by bigoted demigods who insist there is no separation of church and state (their self selected church of course). We have watched as bullying in schools is ignored (can’t use the word Gay so then no one is bullied being Gay), personhood starts with a zygote, and workers should work at the whim of the employer. We have watched the cowardly Republican/Tea Party candidates never fully agree the President was born in the United States and in fact he is a Christian.

With all of the seemingly senseless pandering and posturing by the Republican/Tea Party I am amazed there are still a group of Americans undecided on who they should place into power in November 2012.