I
just finished watching 300: Rise of an
Empire (2014) and I loved it; I love action movies anyway, the more action
the better. This movie and its predecessor shares some facts on King Darius and
his demented son, Xerxes; they wanted to take away freedom and democracy from
the city-states of Greece and it got me reflecting about the Republic in which
I am a citizen and the ideals of a democracy that really isn’t.
Don’t
get me wrong, I love this country and the possibilities within it; I just
cannot stomach those who would pervert what democracy is supposed to be specifically
for their own insidious pursuit of power and dominion. Yes, I went there, they want to dominate, or
have you not been paying attention to the constant beat of the Neocons’ drum to
democratize and Christianize everyone outside their demented little world; their
rush to push legislation so that certain demographics cannot vote at all or create
obstacles to prevent those within the demographics from participating in the
election process? Nor, as a woman, can I neglect their push to take away a
woman’s right to make decisions for her body and in Texas they have already set
up obstacles for female voters.[1] Hey,
wait a minute; this is the same modus operandi of those rabid mongrels in the
Middle East and Asia who use their perverted and twisted version of the Islamic
religion to justify their savagery. Those in this country call themselves
conservative Christians; aside from one saying “Allah” and the other saying “GOD”;
the end purpose of both are the same, to force others to adhere to their
religious interpretations and to exist at their whims. My bad, there is another
difference; one uses the law via legislations while the other uses physicality.
These conservatives are the folks who
love to puff their chests out about their patriotism while forgetting that
within the peoples they are trying to take GOD-given rights from, are those who
fought for this country or had sons, daughters, husbands, wives who gave their
lives for the premise of a better life for the downtrodden and oppressed in foreign
nations on behalf of this country. For
minorities who put on the uniforms and fight for this nation, they fight for
others because the system really does not do justice by them; they fight for
the idea of a democracy because in truth, they can be gunned down by law
enforcement just because of the race they were born into. These conservatives
are the same folks who have the audacity to decry the disrespect of today’s
youth while disrespecting and demonizing the first African American
President. You know who you are; hiding
behind your so-called moral values while talking about “taking America back” as
though it went somewhere; worse still, this particular phrase has been the
rallying cry of the KKK [and like-minded] since the dissolution of slavery. You who have the audacity to assume that this
nation belongs to you because you share the same skin color of the Framers of
the national government but what you ascribe to has nothing to do with GOD and
it damn sure does not have anything to do with democracy.
You [extreme] conservative
morons are too stupid or so caught up in your own mental delusions to realize
that the first true form of democracy was in ancient Greece, therefore it is
not a nuanced concept. Bottom line, it
was not an original idea, so sorry to pop your ignorant bubble. Not. Guess what?
You know that “all men are created equal” by Thomas Jefferson? It was
not his idea, he “borrowed” it from his Italian neighbor Philip Mazzei who
wrote if for the paper, Jefferson translated it and voila, the rest is history.[2] What you ignoramuses fail to realize is that
you are the bane of democracy; you infect the process and purpose of what
democracy should be with your stench of hate and divisiveness and this includes
minorities who share this misguided ideology.
The Mazzei/Jefferson quote of “all men [it should be all peoples] are
created equal” is beyond the comprehension of such didactic individuals for
there is no reasoning with those who see through such hateful lens and with
malice in their hearts. They are those
who call our President a tyrant not realizing that in the states they control,
they are the true tyrants; using tyranny to oppress those who do not fit into
their sphere of power, void of any human trait of compassion, equality and
justice. No love for their fellow human
being who looks different or does not side with them.
No,
this is not a democracy in which we live; it is a simulation of democracy but
it is not the real thing. Conservatives,
from SCOTUS to police officers who indiscriminately target people of color and
in between, have diluted the concept of democracy. We instead live in a country that is a
combination of tyranny and oligarchy; we live in a world of tyra-archy. As motivated as many of us are who despise
these acts may be, we are not involved enough in the process to take away some
of the power of these tyra-archists; maybe because many of us have not felt the
sting as others have. Edmund Burke said “All
that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Are we going to follow the path of those many “good”
German citizens who did nothing while an insidious evil under the guise of
government and politics committed that evil? The truth of it is, we already are.
