karl rove is the antichrist
i don't even know where to start. the last few days have been so frustrating in so many ways. i wasn't surprised that bush took georgia or even that the gay marriage ban passed (although my feelings were a bit hurt by the wide margin); the election has just reminded me of all that is wrong with america.
the republican party has done an excellent job convincing the working poor to support tax breaks for the rich. citizens throughout the south and the heartland are voting against their own economic interests because the republican party has used the mantle of christianity to claim the moral highground, while democrats are portrayed as godless, liberal, intellectual elites out of touch with the american mainstream.
bush helps his bourgeois friends while he stabs the proletariat in the back, destroys the environment, creates havoc in our education system, and alienates virtually every other civilized nation in the world with our utterly idiotic (and ultimately dangerous) foreign policy. but since he speaks the langauge of the proletariat, he is one of them. he is on their team. he's anti-abortion and anti-gay, so single-issue catholic, protestant and evangelicals blindly support him, obvlivious to his heinous track record on environmental and social issues.
jesus calls us to love our neighbor, to feed the poor, to comfort the afflicted, to seek peace. yet, we see right-wing ideologues corrupting scripture and spirituality to use them as the tools of hate, mistrust and misunderstanding. our nation's leaders are doing exactly what we accuse muslim extremists of doing -- coopting and distorting a religion, then incorporating it the highest levels of government to establish a new theocracy totally out of line with what this nation's founding fathers envisioned.
there is even a biblical basis for being good stewards of god's creation. jesus would have been an environmentalist.
i'm upset and sad for my country. i feel like we are heading in the wrong direction on a very fundamental level. i have disliked presidents before and i have disagreed with certain policy decisions, but never before have i felt so hopeless and frustrated.
3 Comments:
Very well written.
You expressed into words exactly all the things that I was thinking.
Yep...you are dead on with that comment. The next couple of decades are going to be a surreal experience, watching this country retreat from much of the progress on human rights and civil liberties made in the 60's and 70's. The Supreme court will be remade, many rights and liberties we take for granted will become a thing of the past. In their place will be the right's obsession with God, guns and gays. The blue and red states will become like separate countries, one more like other advanced nations, the other oddly reminiscent of the terrorists we've demonized this election season.
Oddly, the people who will suffer most both economically and socially from this right-ward tilt will be the very people who. like unthinking sheep, voted for Bush this year. I have had my children, two lovely boys, and had the freedom to know that I truly chose them and I love them beyond measure. But during those pregnancies, not knowing whether I was carrying a normal fetus, all of the uncertainty, the fear, the hormones, the discomfort, that was enough without government legislation of my uterus. Had I been carrying a fetus with horrific deformities (and I am a developmental biologist, so I know what such a fetus might look like) I would have terminated. The knowledge that I was carrying a fetus with anencephaly (loss of head structures) that I would harbor for so many months only to watch it die as it was born would have been unbearable. Had I not been offered the option of terminating such a pregnancy I would have become suicidal. And therein lies the future. It will be the 14 year old girl who is raped in a red state, the mother who carries a deformed fetus, or whose health is endangered by the fetus she carries. There will be the desperation of the personal story and, for the rest of us, there will be knowing that, as females, our personhood, our decision-making ability, our complicated lives are meaningless to the powers that be. Our uteruses are under state control and our lives are less valued than those of the potential male fetuses that we might (like livestock) bear. There will be horrors and, by and large, they will be red state horrors. I will watch and sympathize and cry...
I have to agree that this country is heading down hill. Morals mean nothing to this nation. People use the bible and twist it's meaning to fit their own lifestlye. I am against gay marriage. It CLEARLY states in the bible that it is an abomination to God for men to be with men and women to be with women.As far as abortion goes. I feel like it is too often an excuse for loose and immoral women to continue to be irresponsible. If the mothers life is in danger, well someone has to be saved or both could die. Even in the horrible cases of incest and rape you wonder what Gods will is in that, but if given the chance I believe God takes care of things in his own time. Would getting rid of the baby erase the tragedy? No, it just adds to it. Anyone who wants to have an abortion because their child is deformed or less than perfect is not capable of unconditional love and should not have any children AT ALL.
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