Political Dominionism + Ignorance = McCarthyism/aka HATE

The New Red Scare!

We are going to be talking a lot about this in upcoming posts, as it is precisely where they are leading their reactionary audience. This is getting more ridiculous with each passing day. When Beck, Hannity & Co on Fox News spew out fear and misinformation, there are actually millions of people in this country that lap it up! This latest litany of absolute garbage dumped on the unread audience that turns to these psychotic ranters of hate and paranoia – actually suggesting that Obama’s upcoming speech to students across the country is an attempt at socialist indoctrination ALMOST leaves me speechless!

I said almost…after a few deep breaths and an outburst of expletives in the privacy of my own office…I am now ready to discuss this further. There is a direct line between the ignorance being disseminated by these self-anointed “protectors of the republic” and the hatred that is now suddenly deemed as ‘c’hristian and patriotic.

The paranoia is delusional and certifiable!

Parents are yelling “hell no!” about letting their children hear the President’s speech to school children. Wow…now that’s a loving sentiment. They actually believe that this is an attempt by the President to turn their children into socialists/fascists/communists. First of all, where was their outrage when President Reagan addressed school children across America November 14, 1988…

Conservative media take note: Reagan preached tax cut gospel to America’s students

September 03, 2009 1:09 pm ET by Matt Gertz

Putting aside possible ulterior motives, the conservative freak-out over President Obama’s planned speech to students urging them to stay in school and work hard is due to fears that Obama will use his platform as an opportunity to push his agenda on unsuspecting students. Ironically, that’s exactly what President Reagan did two decades ago.

On November 14, 1988, Reagan addressed and took questions from students from four area middle schools in the Old Executive Office Building. According to press secretary Marvin Fitzwater, the speech was broadcast live and rebroadcast by C-Span, and Instructional Television Network fed the program “t o schools nationwide on three different days.” Much of Reagan’s speech that day covered the American “vision of self-government” and the need “to keep faith with the unfinished vision of the greatness and wonder of America” but in the middle of the speech, the president went off on a tangent about the importance of low taxes.

Do Sean Hannity and the folks at NewsBusters think President Reagan was engaging in Maoist indoctrination? Do Glenn Beck and WorldNetDaily think Reagan was pulling a Mussolini or attempting to assemble his own Hitler Youth? Or is it possible that the conservative media has decided that if Obama is for it – whether “it” means “universal health care” or “stay in school” – they’re against it?

Words ARE power. They know this. And they fire off inflammatory remarks and false information every day, full well knowing that they are causing obstructionist politics in America. Their hate is so intense against Obama (and all liberals) that they are causing atrocious events to occur in pockets of America’s backwoods such as this story about a bus load of students in Idaho who felt it appropriate to chant “Assassinate Obama” over and over again on their way to school. You have to click here to go to the article and view the video…it is worth the read. And FYI…these are 3rd graders!

What is WRONG with these people? And why are we allowing this? They are pissed off because they cannot force their bibles into the public education system, say their prayers in school, teach Creationism – all out of their proclaimed love for Jesus Christ and renewed baptism in the Holy Spirit…and yet they feel that teaching their children to hold signs and chant phrases of hate and violence is the only true recourse. It’s sick!

The election of President Obama not only infuriates the ‘c’hristian GOPers, but has made them entrenched bedfellows with rascist groups like Christian Identity who literally believe that Anglo-saxons of European descent are actually displaced Israelites who were scattered north after being forced out of their home land – Israel.  I am not kidding! Of course they simply ignore the fact that the neighboring countries and cultural physical attributes are all people of varying degrees of dark skin. Those damn details always get in the way!

Listen to the rantings of a – and it pains me to call him this – pastor in this video throwing hate-fuel at the fanantics to incite violence against Obama just last month in Tempe, Arizona the same weekend that President Obama was to speak in Phoenix on Health Care and where someone with the IQ of his waist size chose to bring an automatic weapon.

They are still a minority, but a loud, rude and vocal contingent that cannot be ignored. Arming our children with knowledge and a sense that each individual does matter, even in school, is a great way to combat this viral ignorance. If an outcome of this is that our children gain an apetite for knowledge and a curiosity about civics – then we are on our way to turning this boat around.

The ONLY thing these people have to fear? Is THEMSELVES!

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