Mad, mad world

No one in this nation should be a bit surprised that this action is being proposed: The Ku Klux Klan doesn’t want to leave all the immigrant-hating to gun-toting militias and US Congressmen. The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is calling for a “shoot-to-kill” policy at the border. (The Nation)

When we have self appointed Mavens like Sarah Palin talking about impeaching the president, Steve King lecturing about immigration, Bill O’Reilly pontificating about ‘the Blacks’, ‘the Ghetto’ and ‘the Drugs’, Paul Ryan explaining that poor people need government run life coaching to stop being poor, one might expect a deceitful hate group like the KKK to propose actions such as their Wizard say: “If we pop a couple of ’em off and leave the corpses laying on the border, maybe they’ll see we’re serious about stopping immigrants.” (The Nation) When we have found our culture highjacked by some of the most ignorant, misinformed, racists, bigots, and homophobes and taken hostage by selfish activist Justices proclaiming corporations are people but anyone else not just as human, we should not be at all surprised that self proclaimed soldiers of Christ dressed in white robes are once again free to roam not only the back woods of America but now its Main Streets. The adage used to state do not repeat history, learn from it, but in fact with the emergence of the Tea Party, the shambles of selfish politicians, the misrepresentation of religious freedom vs freedom from religion, the rise of a tax code to assist the 1% from never being anything less and the media so much more concerned about being first then being factual, hearing the KKK proposing actions to shoot people of color; history is of no use nor consequence.

The NRA is urging its paid puppets in the Congress to NOT vote for background checks on stalkers, men who prey on ex wives and girlfriends. T-Publican Senator Inhofe, of Oklahoma who has previously stated he thinks climate change is "laughable and a "hoax" blocked a Senate resolution acknowledging climate change is real. The state of Alabama officials stating that the new EPA regulations defy Gods will as God created coal so burning coal must a heavenly gesture. Joni Ernst running for the T-Publican senate job from Iowa is an advocate of nullification even though it was cause for a Civil War and the US Constitution declares it illegal. And oh yeah Gays want Christians to have open sex with everyone according to Pat Robertson.

There used to be a time in this nation where the fringe was considered strange, weird, bizarre. There once was a time when consensus did flourish, when the absurd was blatant, and those who pushed for violence, mayhem, and murder were considered by most Americans as fools. But nowadays when impeachment calls for the president run rampant, Limbaugh, Hannity or Beck are quoted as the intelligencia, Ted Cruz rewrites the constitutionality of our Constitution and FOX News is the final word on current events, comments from the KKK to “…just pop a couple of kids…” is not challenged or immediately called into question. Have we given up all kinds of hope because we are living in a mad, mad, mad world?