After watching parts of the Beck rally and seeing him in "action", I am not sure what I was watching, but it did remind me of something. What happens when god fearing religious fanatics feel powerless???
I would would say let's face the fact that the "religious right" are pretty "out of control angry". Some I know are calling for a theocracy here in the good old USA. Squabbling about the fact that some Founding Fathers signed documents with "The blank year of our lord" and some go further to say "our lord jesus christ". They see stem cell research as a murderous evil thing, they would love to overturn Roe VS. Wade, they believe gay people are a curse or are cursed by god. Any President that does not make it clear that he is "their" leader, stands to hear their incessant whining".
I realized this today, as I saw the crowd, and remembered that last week a poll said that some thought the President was Muslim. Why would anyone care?? Could the lunatic religious fringe be seeking an outlet??
For the first time in a long time, they are "not being heard" and they believe they have god on their side, and HOW can god fail???? They are falling by the wayside, and no one is kissing their ass, and telling them they "are IMPORTANT".
So, they are rallying for their "country to go back". Not to Bush, but to the time when abortions were "illegal" and the show ran, but NO ONE saw the fact that there were strings running the puppet master. They are happiest when their moral views appear to "control the law makers" and then and only then does the world make sense to them.
They want to know the current President would appoint Supreme Court Justices that lean in their religious direction.
They want to believe that any person "that is not with them, is against them". = GW Bush speak.
They want to hear "family" and "god" and "government and connection" in the same sentence.
The more we move forward, and advance as a society, opening our minds and ridding our self of fear and hatred, the more they are "digging in their heels and saying NO"
The fact that Beck could rally 150k of them on a "non political" pretense clearly spells out the real intention behind this. This is not an AMAZING feat, they are "mad as hell and have no power or outlet". They are the screamers now, and they are louder than any "flag burning liberals"!!!.
They are PISSED OFF, and no one is listening and for the first time, we have a President that does NOT CATER TO THEM. No wonder they hate him. These people are our backwards past.
In my opinion, they don't care about tax cuts to the rich, or laws that give corporations limits on abuses. They don't care about a toxic sea from an oil spill, or making laws to protect the environment. All they listen for is god related protections, and they do NOT even divvy that out fairly. (poor mosque people).
If we drill down further, we will see that they are christians. They fight for the survival of an unborn zygote, on the same day they are perfectly okay about dropping a bomb in a town where a "bad person" may be, and 15 civilians happen to die. I could go on and on.. but no.
They make no sense and neither does Glen Beck.
Let us keep our eye on this fact and remember if they get any power they are going to push us backwards with force. They want to be sure our type of thinking is squashed.
What will their happy agenda be? "jail the gays", "burn the witches", "remove the woman's right to choose", "harass and limit the expansion of any religion that is not christian", "control drinking alcohol" and "make porn on the internet illegal". EEK! not the porn.. well they secretly need that so they may keep that and call it a "fight".
Good bye future, hello "the world is flat". 100k+ gathered today to show us they ARE out there.