A crowd pushes through the barricades blocking the entrance to the WW2 Memorial in Washington DC; leading the way were Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz. The stars the stripes, the rockets red glare could be seen and heard as the Patriots paraded past the blockaded pathway. God needed to bless the USA and two self proclaimed and anointed stalwarts of liberty, freedom, equality, two soldiers of Christ crusading to rid America from the evils of socialism, communism, atheism and intellectualism Palin and Cruz proudly led their troops forward. While all of this was happening, infants were starving, women were being denied reproductive rights, seniors were rotting, government employees without paychecks, cancer patients without medical visits, and the poor remained just as poor as ever. But nothing says ‘...loving like something from the oven’, like photo opts of the flag, the Bible and the hypocrites carrying both.
Our WW2 Vets deserve to visit their memorial anytime they wish; they risked life and limb to keep America free, no questions about that. But do any of them wonder if all they fought for is fading fast while people like Palin and Cruz pontificate that not all Americans now deserve the same opportunities of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Do the Vets lining up to visit their memorial realize that people like Palin and Cruz want to decide how you get medical attention, if you should work for a decent wage, if women are equal to men, if homosexuals are as real a person as heterosexuals, if seniors are just too old to survive, if your God is not named Jesus you should not be able to pray? Do the men and women who served this country during WW2 understand that Palin and Cruz and their entire Tea Party anarchists don’t believe ALL Americans are equal? Do the Vets standing beside Cruz and Palin know they are consorting with the enemy?
National Parks are being opened, memorials are admitting participants the facade of Americana looks good on the news or online, but behind the optics what is really going on in this nation? Palin and Cruz lead the wary warriors of past wars while Palin and Cruz and their cohorts deny the current crop of citizens any opportunity for a future of justice, fairness and equality. Snake oil salesmen with the slightest of hand have always been a bane of our existence. The weakest of mind the insecure of conscience, the self loathing, insecure love a good lie, a false pretense to prove their point. False prophets love to indulge on the feeble of will, the frail of intelligence, the dumb. If our flag which is always waving in the hands of people like Palin and Cruz really means anything it must go beyond the hypocrisy and hyperbole of holding it and represent our democracy in its finest. Palin and Cruz and their Tea Party terrorists provide a good scam and it seems too many suckers have been born every minute and are buying it.
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