Sunday, October 4, 2009

Politics as Religion - Can't Fight Right Wingnuts Belief

Check out Neal Gabler's Op-Ed at:
This direction is really scary to me.  When you can't reason with people, and you can't if they base everything on "faith", then society suffers.  What can you do?  If they are standing on the mountain waiting for the rapture from their 6000 year old earth...you can only walk past them and continue with 21st century enlightenment.  Leave them behind along with the centuries of backwards, unsophisticated, flat-earth, tin-foil hat wearing peoples.
Hopefully, our society will continue to grow and evolve in spite of them.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Right Wingnut Hysteria Over Schoolchildren "Chant"

OK…there has been some right wingnut hysteria over video of school children “chanting” about President Obama. The escaped asylum inmates (Liz Cheney, Glenn Beck, etc.) are breathlessly proclaiming the kids were being “indoctrinated”!!!

Trouble is…this video is from last February AND was part of an event during Black History Month!! It should be OK to celebrate the fact that we have evolved enough as a country and a society to elect a black president.

Obviously, not everybody has evolved - as evidenced by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Liz Cheney, et al.
And for the topper…Let‘s go back to 2006. A group of schoolchildren who survived Hurricane Katrina went to the White House and sang a song praising President Bush and FEMA, if you can believe it. Now, I didn‘t hear the righties complaining about indoctrinating children back them. I didn’t hear anyone right or left screaming about THAT.
It‘s not like the kids are out there pushing President Obama‘s political agenda. They‘re talking about equality, AND Obama didn‘t have anything to do with the performance!







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