One thing I’ve come to really despise in my lifetime is hypocrisy. And therein lies my disdain for the Republican Party. I have never seen such a huge collection of hypocrites has I have with this party. Almost all of them claim to be these 10 Commandment abiding, good Christian people who place the laws of God at the forefront of everything they do and say. And their inane followers walk lock-step with everything they say and do. (more below the squiggly)
And what is really disturbing is how so many of those who vote for Republicans seem to have been brainwashed in to thinking that the country was founded as a Christian nation. They have somehow forgotten what was taught in History about how and why this country came to be, ignorant of any and all facts. Why is that? Why don’t those who vote Republican ever question what they are being told? Why do they blindly follow these politicians being led by their noses? I’ve got a few theories about that, and some are riddled with sarcasm, while others to me really make some sense.
Were those who vote Republican just never really able to get past the shock that Santa Claus wasn’t real? And did that leave them with a sense of denial of all that’s real from that point forward? One has to wonder. What else would explain just how adamant they are about continuing to believe what they are being told by the Republican Party? Is it about saving face? Do these people have too much false pride to admit that they’ve been swindled or bamboozled? Is it easier to just go with the flow? Or are they afraid of the truth? Think about this for a second. We were brought up believing that the Declaration of Independence was created to ensure our freedoms as citizens of this country. But there are people who are so willing to give up those freedoms. Why? Did I not grow up in the same America? I grew up believing that I could cheer for any football team I wanted to. It was my impression that I could be Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant, or any religion or non-believer and I was still an American. My skin could be any color, and I was American. But Republicans are trying to say otherwise. If you are not a rich white male, you really don’t have rights to the same freedoms that our founding fathers declared independence from England for.
First and foremost they want you to be a Christian. They want women to be subservient to men, and want all non-Caucasians and the poor to be in their own class. Republicans want to tell you who you can love, and want to dictate who you can and cannot marry. And again, these are the same people who have us fighting wars under the auspices of trying to bring democracy to other countries, to free their people from tyrannical rule, where the citizens are told who they can and cannot worship, and who they can and cannot marry. Where the rich dictate the laws, and where the only other class besides the rich are the poor. Hypocrisy anyone?
I was raised Catholic, but no longer practice any religion. I was taught to be thankful for what I have, to be willing to help others, and that wealth is to be shared, and not hoarded. In the Republican Party, what I see is them bitching about what others have (i.e. “public employees don’t have to pay for their insurance or pensions”). The only entity that they are willing to help are the wealthy or the corporations, of which they don’t feel any of their wealth should be shared with anyone.
I am so glad I am not a Republican. I don’t know that I could function in life working so hard at denying what is really going on around me.