nullification

Ordinance of Nullification—an argument that essentially said that if a state didn’t like a federal law it could simply ignore it.  The Civil War, segregation, voter ID laws, government shutdown over the legal Affordable Care Law are prefect examples.  Anti Americanism not just an Islamist Jihadist notion or a Chinese/Russian communist plan, rather something honed in the heartland by Americans who refuse to except that any minority of color is human,  insist that women’s bodies are the subject of the church, there is no divide between the Evangelical church and the state, and Gays are not equal to anyone! Terrorism is no longer something creeping from the shores of a distant land. Murdering health care providers who perform abortions, burning or bombing Planned Parenthood clinics, bullying members of the LGBT community all straight from the bowels of the homeland Of course purchasing a gun without requiring any documentation, true Americana. Democracy no longer is about one person one vote. It is now about threats to close down the government, increasing financial support from wealthy donors, corporations as citizens, gerrymandering.

Listen closely to the people who swear they carry the Constitution in their left pocket while holding the Bible in their right hand next to their shotgun as they insist the Affordable Care Law is socialized medicine, but having the government deny women their reproductive rights is not. Listen closely as the Tea Party shouts down the evil of Sharia Law (law based on Islamic principles), but with fervor and frenzy quote the Christian New Testament as the real book of law. Listen closely as the Koch Brothers and their ill funded conservative organizations filter down the law to their paid political puppets telling them how and when to vote. Listen closely as chorus after chorus of Tea Party thugs demand President Obama be impeached because they as Americans cannot respect the democratic process by which he was elected.

There has been a lot of disruptive noise garnered from a small group of torch carrying townsfolk out to identify a monster in their midsts. Burn ‘em, lynch ‘em, kill ‘em cries from a group of people who dislike difference, seek a scapegoat, and have NO respect for the history of this nation. Too often when looking back at our history do we find that the noise was victor, that the conscience vacant, and that vitriol with emptiness the conquerer. Too often the honest individual the citizen of substance stood aside permitting the biased, bogus and bigoted to run amuck; thinking once they blew their steam there would be no more energy. Too often too many people suffered in the wake of madmen. As long as we still have a fighting chance for democracy in this nation and elections are still given a chance for fair and just  those of us who really care about America need to make sure the voices of freedom prevail.