a palin nation

A Palin Nation! Yep if you read the headlines close enough and look at the score sheet of all the Tea Bagger Politicians winning the Republican primary nominations, it seems that the Palin Nation is emerging as fast as the trees planted by Johnny Appleseed. A Palin Nation, a place where fact is not important, hate reigns supreme, talking out of both sides of your mouth the norm, and perceived differences are the cause de jour, and never finding common ground the goal.

I amaze that the dumb are smarter than the intelligent when it comes to politics in this country. I amaze that truth, counts less than lies, that facts can be fictionalized, that insincerity is queen and that history is best remembered when it is stepped upon and dragged through the ringer.

I do not snicker at the antics of Palin and her cast of ghost writers finding fault with anything that hints of conscience and soul. I do not guffaw and giggle at the infinitesimal errors of fact spewed and sinisterly dismissed. I do not laugh at the twisting of audio and video of Palin lying while her compatriots swear her enemies contorted and confused the event. I do not roll my eyes in disbelief as Palin pontificates from the lofty domain of her Ivory Tower never once having to answer for her antics. I instead worry and wonder is this becoming a Palin Nation?

I amaze that the lemming is lead to the cliff encouraged to jump to the bottomless pit and not once asks why. I amaze that 8 years of greed, gluttony, selfishness, insincerity provided by the ruling class Republicans, at the time, under the Bush/Cheney dictatorship are seen as blips on the horizon. I amaze that change which had a chance for a comeback has come and gone, and many people want to chance the same pack of blood sucking corporations, self serving politicians, to ruin the nation for 8 more years.

A Palin Nation, imagine if all the candidates Sister Sarah backed win their nomination to Federal office. Image if all the anti this and anti that crowd vote on laws to create separate but equal, closing the gap on Church/ State separation, no rules or regulations for the Health Insurance Cartel, the Oil Cartel, the Finance Cartel. Imagine a society where carrying a gun usurps going to the voting poll if you want change made?

A Palin Nation like a bad dream except that you are not sleeping. A Palin Nation where fair and just are replaced by just for me, a Palin Nation pale in comparison to anything great. A Palin Nation where mediocre and less than are the motivators, where riches trickle up and poverty trickles down.

Come on anyone out there who finds reason and rational real. Come on anyone out there who seeks honesty and humble. Come on anyone out there who knows this nation is much more than the consequences of a Palin Nation. Come on and become verbal, vocal, proactive, cause we have a whole lot at stake if we remain quiet.

A Palin Nation do we deserve this?