I wrote the following a year and a half ago. Nowadays I am so aghast at our anomalous president-elect that I am temporarily kind of dumbstruck, but it looks as though some of my prior commentary still applies. Well, in my opinion, anyway.
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| John Kleese does Hitler |
"Maranatha, come Lord Jesus." -Michelle Bachman
U.S. politics has so polarized that any complementarity the
factions might once have acknowledged has hardened into stubborn partisanship. That’s just as unfortunate, certainly, as
President Obama makes it sound; however, at least it clarifies things – much like
dialing the “contrast” setting all the way up on an old television.
Didn’t people once recall with nostalgia a “simpler time,” exemplified
by movies in black and white? Now an era
is upon us when the issues are pretty clear-cut. In fact, it all seems to be shaping up into a
frank battle between good and evil. Optimistically
speaking, it’s reasonable to hope for a favorable outcome (eventually, anyway)
because the good guys are intelligent and the bad guys are idiots.
As I have shown before, liberalism is associated with
education, science and progress while conservatism is based on willful ignorance,
misleading religion and backwardness.
The distinction is even plainer on a global scale than it is
here at home. The U.N. and NATO, though
somewhat ineffective to date, represent hope for the Family of Man. Where does one see the opposite of that? Syria and Iraq, of course, in a foul and
subhuman social disease known as ISIS, next to which Hitler’s goons look like the
Beatles. But that axis of absurd cruelty
bears out my theory, for their depravity is directly related to conservatism
founded in the extreme ignorance of perverse, medieval religion.
I’m sure most will agree that ISIS is fully half again as
bad as the American Family Association.
On the sentinel issues such as marriage equality, reproductive
freedom, gun control, immigration and separation of church and state, you’d
think America would have settled matters for good by now – but danged if
conservatives haven’t come down squarely in the wrong and stayed there for
decades, fouling up society something awful.
As if all that weren’t bad enough, abuses of the extreme
right wing persist and worsen ad nauseam in the life-and-death matter of environmental/energy
policy. The gods must surely be dismayed
to see Alberta, Canada laid to waste by the filthiest industry in history, whose
ambition is to export the ooze of that disaster to the rest of the world. But isn’t a similar malady afflicting Texas? What could be stupider than poisoning the
groundwater while raping the drought-stricken earth night and day? Signs no less ominous than seismic tremors
are being ignored by the corporate lapdogs our elderly keep sending to Austin. I don’t understand why responsible Texans
aren’t out there toppling rigs.
Insanely reckless industrial pollution is attributable in
large part to distorted religion, of the sort that teaches “the world” (our planet)
is a thing to be disdained and abandoned; that these are the fabled “end times”
and nothing Man can do but hosannah hallaloo and pass the ammunition. Subterranean Texas would appear to be as
outta luck these days as polar bears and unarmed black males.
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SGTex
