As the new
campaign season ramps up we’re finding that not only has nothing changed since
2012 but there are some new players on the field.
Almost all the
far right candidates still claim to support a smaller government. At the same
time they support measures to control women’s health care and reproductive
rights. At the same time too many of them want to control who marries who, even
though most of us still haven’t figured out how couple A’s marriage has
anything to do with couple B’s. Every excuse in the world is still being used
to undermine the authority of the president, except the obvious one. He’s
black.
Nonexistant voter
fraud has been met with a rash of laws meant to limit access to the vote for
those most likely to vote for a Democrat. And what’s scary is that some of the
politicians don’t even pretend any more that the laws are intended to do just
that.
One of the newest
schticks is to claim that any action or law that conflicts with their
“sincerely held religious beliefs” is a form of persecution. Even something as
mundane as baking a cake or being asked to take pictures. for a same sex
wedding. And earlier posting highlighted a Midwestern candidate for the senate
who believes that his religious freedom trumps all laws up to and apparently including
murder.
I suspect there
are a few detainees still moldering down at Gitmo who could make the same
argument. I guess we should just let them go home. After all it’s a sincerely
held religious belief that the infidel (us) needs to be stopped any way
possible. Oh, you didn’t mean THEM. Care to explain why not? Oh, you just meant
certain Christians. That’s what I thought.
Same for prayers
at public gatherings. At least for some folks. The recent Supreme Court
decision okayed such prayers as long as certain guidelines were met. Anybody
want to take book on what would happen if a Jew, Muslim or pagan asked to say a
prayer. What odds are you offering? A million to one? Sounds about right.
I have noticed
that there are fewer calls for the repeal of “job killing” regulations. At
least in the local news. Since most of the calls seem to be code for “repeal
the EPA’ I’m guessing that the rash of broken or exploding pipelines and
derailed coal and oil trains has as least some folks thinking twice. After all
one of those trains just might be coming to a rail line near you. Then there
are states with almost no record of earthquakes that are starting to shake.
Only new part of the puzzle. Fracking. Let’s just keep hoping that the only
things being rattled are the plates in the cupboard. For now.
I believe I may have finally figured out the
real problem. Deep down in the darkest corner of their minds where the light
never shines the WASPs and WASP wannabes truly believe that they are the only
full citizens of this country. Women, minorities, gays, non Christians, or non
conforming Christians are not full citizens and may not even be fully human in
their eyes. So they can, with a straight face and clear conscience claim that
they are for smaller government, for them while mandating intrusive government
for others. As for all the rest of us? From now on, if I don't have a say in
the laws that are passed I will not obey.
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