“The liberty of democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes strong than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism-ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power”, is a quote by FDR and such is the case of the conservative branch of the GOP, and you know of whom I speak. An adage says, “it’s better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you’re a fool than to open it and prove them right”. Well, they’ve opened their mouths and darn it, they are fools and what’s worse is they take a little bit of real facts, add their spin and voilá, their brand of insanity. Stupid is for someone who doesn’t know any better while fools are those who think they know a thing in their own mind. A William Faulkner quote says, “unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest”. Well, they seem to have no shame in the mis-information they share with their merry bands of seemingly mindless followers who eat up everything, as though it is gospel, so if they have no shame, they’re not honest. They became a pack of rabid dogs chasing their tails, gnashing their teeth and foaming, not only at the mouths, but at the brains as well after Obama won the presidential election. The madness intensified during the debate on Healthcare Reform. For example, after a day on the Hill when an 11 year old recounted the death of his mother from high blood pressure, one of these conservatives, Michelle Malkin, heartlessly stated that “Senator Harry Reid was hiding behind an 11 year old child”, while ignoring the facts presented which is this child’s mother is dead from a treatable disease. Rightly, did FDR quote, “men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds” and these conservatives are truly prisoners of their mean and miniscule brains.
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As a Born-again Christian, Democrat and a Black single parent, there is nothing decent about the GOP especially the conservatives, absolutely nothing. They are religious, pompous blow-hards desiring power to control how others live. They have not one compassionate bone for anyone beyond their way of being but they call themselves Christians. Jesus Christ spoke to His version of conservatives, Pharisees and Sadducees, saying to them, “Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things”[1] . He also said, “Not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man”[2]. The problem with these people is them assuming that their way of being is infallible while their modus operandi is both insidious and duplicitous. How can anyone support Limbaugh’s statement of wishing “the Obama administration fails” and say there’s no evil in that? Not even during the eight disastrous years of the Bush administration did any Democrat not even the most liberal, stoop to the level of vile and disrespect shown by conservatives. Their key tactical weapon is fear; fear of race; fear of weakness; fear of compassion and fear of being different from the pack. FDR says of fear, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” and the Bible tells us, “for God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind”[3]. I don’t know about you, but they don’t seem to have sound minds or good hearts.
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