A daily blog in defense of liberalism and the President.
The Right wins elections and steers the arguments in our political dialog because they yell the loudest, never worry about facts and truth, and fundamentally believe no matter what they are always right, no pun intended. They always believe whatever they do is correct, and never bat an eye even if everything they do turn to shit and is a complete failure, it couldn’t have been theirs, it must have been someone else’s fault. The other day for example Karl Rove said he believes he is owed an apology for his part in the U.S. Attorney firings because he hasn’t been indicted for anything. John Ensign with a strait face said he was still justified for his wanting Clinton impeached but that what he did is in no way comparable because he did not commit any crime. Senator David Vitter paid for sex with prostitutes, has he stepped down? No, because the Right and the Republicans are not about facts or truths or anything else, they are about power, pure and simple power. Tom Ridge’s new book will lay out more information about what everyone already figured about the Bush Administration that they used the fear of terrorism to stay in power and influence the elections in 2004. We all know they made up and twisted the evidence that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq, yet they still laugh in all are faces and we do nothing. Hell Bush cut taxes for the rich and then paid for a lengthy war on borrowed money from China for six years at a cost greater than healthcare for all Americans will cost, yet the right has no desire now to spend money. Killing people who were no threat to us ok, taking care of fellow citizens, well that is just socialism and government takeover. But I put forward the question of whether it is the Republicans and the Right who anti-patriotic and Un-American. They care more for profit than people. They care more for power than justice or truth. They will lie and distort for their own gain. They allowed billions in war profiteering during the Iraq war and gave away no-bid contracts to their friends and campaign contributors. Even with all the mounting evidence of Global Warming they will do everything in their power to prevent any real anti-climate legislation from coming to a vote. They say the believe in freedom, yet they support the most draconian drug laws and are always pushing a Christian agenda even though America is not a theocracy and our founders believed in the separation of church and state, because they did not believe one group should dictate their religious morality on another. I say the Republican Party is anti-working man, anti-human rights, anti-freedom, and the enemies of the common American. I hope someday that the average men and women of this nation who support them because they cannot see passed the fog of all the lies and deceit, wake up and join us and become real patriots again, because killing foreign people in countries that are no threat to us is not patriotism it is foolishness, but helping America grow and become strong again that is Patriotism and that should be the Progressive agenda, that rebuilding America is the most Patriotic thing we as Americans can do, and those who disagree are the true enemies of our Republic.
Now that I am done speechifying, I guess we can get to the Philosopher of the Week Plotinus who wrote, "Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing." This quote is helpful to me and I hope helps anyone who reads it, for I have been very worried lately about finding a job how I will support my family, and I always have to stop myself and remember that fear and worry will not change the outcome of what will happen. Doing more, working harder, these things I can control, but fear never helps, and it only brings suffering and sometimes depression, so try friends not to live in fear and always realize whatever is going to happen will happen whether or not you are afraid or not. Well I say until Monday goodbye...