The Short Life of a Poltical Lemming
Dammit! This whole discrimination law in Indiana debate is a joke. It's a joke mostly because it exposes the sheer ignorance of the American people on both the Left and Right regarding Constitutional freedoms. I've heard Christians argue that this is a Christian nation and homosexuality is against God, therefore it's against America! “What the*^%^&#! Are you kidding me!”
I've heard Liberals argue that some poor Gay person might be offended by somebody's religious belief, so, to hell with their First amendment rights. Again I say *@!^%#! Are you freaking kidding me!”
CEOs chime in, eager to be let off the hook and prove they are in lock-step with whoever is winning the debate. Hell, if the constitution has to be shredded, better that than lose money, or worse still, be branded a bigot! The media run rampant, looking for defenseless rubes to use as fodder for high ratings and to sell whatever passes for a newspaper nowadays.
It's one big circus.
Behind all the pathetic whimpering, though, is a relentless hunger for power. That is where the real game is being played. The rest of the public, politicians and CEOs included, are doing the best they can to simply to survive the onslaught.
There is no single agenda at work here, just a loose aggregation of like-minded folk, most of them sharing a Leftist world-view. Some are more radical than others. Some are motivated to destroy all that is unique and good about America because they want to save the world. There may be no more dangerous figure in all of creation than someone hell-bent on saving the world.
This is where politics and religion morph into a single entity—that being, a secular political view, under-girded by a deep religious-like fervor. Global warming comes to mind. The frenzy of righteous indignation birthed over a fear of good Gay people being denied tasty bake goods, being another. It is when people are convicted of the obvious righteousness of their cause that they are the most dangerous. Reason then, becomes unreasonable, the simpler the argument the better, is the preferred methodology. Slogans abound “Hell no we won't go” Bush lied kids died” “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” (the bush in this case being an actual bush, not a political dynasty.) What's really at stake, though, is the way people feel—mostly about themselves, but also about others—at least as far as it relates to them. And nobody wants to feel bad, so feelings must be spared, freedoms abridged and laws rewritten.
Meanwhile, evil political forces lurk in dark places, like roaches they scurry from the light. But they are there, light or no light, roaches are always there. That's the real story.
And, behind the curtain, just out of sight, are the wizards manipulating the crazy circus for the entertainment of the masses. The smaller players, well, there just happy to be seen and heard, if only for a moment. Whether they're one world government types, or radical environmentalists, benevolent socialists (an oxymoron, if ever there was one!) doesn't matter. They are people of faith, if most of their faith is in themselves, then, so be it. The key, however, is the way they feel about it all, not whether any of it is actually workable. Why? Because they haven’t thought it through that far, which is a trait held dear by children of all ages.
Then, there are the lawyers. Most politicians nowadays are lawyers, though, so there's little difference. But the law is where the rubber meets the road. The specific legal language can either leave the gate wide open for the lawyers to run amok, or to tightly limit them. That is why hundreds of pages of new laws, written in arcane legal code enables lawyers to rule the world—politicians being lawyers, well, you do the math.
In the end, none of this is about feelings, it never was, that's laughable. It's about power, it always has been, it always will—your feelings be damned—and you along with them.
Mark Magula
I've heard Liberals argue that some poor Gay person might be offended by somebody's religious belief, so, to hell with their First amendment rights. Again I say *@!^%#! Are you freaking kidding me!”
CEOs chime in, eager to be let off the hook and prove they are in lock-step with whoever is winning the debate. Hell, if the constitution has to be shredded, better that than lose money, or worse still, be branded a bigot! The media run rampant, looking for defenseless rubes to use as fodder for high ratings and to sell whatever passes for a newspaper nowadays.
It's one big circus.
Behind all the pathetic whimpering, though, is a relentless hunger for power. That is where the real game is being played. The rest of the public, politicians and CEOs included, are doing the best they can to simply to survive the onslaught.
There is no single agenda at work here, just a loose aggregation of like-minded folk, most of them sharing a Leftist world-view. Some are more radical than others. Some are motivated to destroy all that is unique and good about America because they want to save the world. There may be no more dangerous figure in all of creation than someone hell-bent on saving the world.
This is where politics and religion morph into a single entity—that being, a secular political view, under-girded by a deep religious-like fervor. Global warming comes to mind. The frenzy of righteous indignation birthed over a fear of good Gay people being denied tasty bake goods, being another. It is when people are convicted of the obvious righteousness of their cause that they are the most dangerous. Reason then, becomes unreasonable, the simpler the argument the better, is the preferred methodology. Slogans abound “Hell no we won't go” Bush lied kids died” “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” (the bush in this case being an actual bush, not a political dynasty.) What's really at stake, though, is the way people feel—mostly about themselves, but also about others—at least as far as it relates to them. And nobody wants to feel bad, so feelings must be spared, freedoms abridged and laws rewritten.
Meanwhile, evil political forces lurk in dark places, like roaches they scurry from the light. But they are there, light or no light, roaches are always there. That's the real story.
And, behind the curtain, just out of sight, are the wizards manipulating the crazy circus for the entertainment of the masses. The smaller players, well, there just happy to be seen and heard, if only for a moment. Whether they're one world government types, or radical environmentalists, benevolent socialists (an oxymoron, if ever there was one!) doesn't matter. They are people of faith, if most of their faith is in themselves, then, so be it. The key, however, is the way they feel about it all, not whether any of it is actually workable. Why? Because they haven’t thought it through that far, which is a trait held dear by children of all ages.
Then, there are the lawyers. Most politicians nowadays are lawyers, though, so there's little difference. But the law is where the rubber meets the road. The specific legal language can either leave the gate wide open for the lawyers to run amok, or to tightly limit them. That is why hundreds of pages of new laws, written in arcane legal code enables lawyers to rule the world—politicians being lawyers, well, you do the math.
In the end, none of this is about feelings, it never was, that's laughable. It's about power, it always has been, it always will—your feelings be damned—and you along with them.
Mark Magula