Hope!
by Primo Encarnación
- The Cult of Christian Victimology Gospel Choir
- The Demonization of Same-sex Marriage Council
- The Alligators in the Moat Immigration Committee
- The Guns for Everyone Everywhere Gang
- The American Socialist White People’s Party
- The Poor Deserve It Double Board of Directors
- The Voter Suppression Battalion
- The 77₡ on a Dollar, He-Man Woman-Haters Club
- The “Bang! Bang! Bang! Freeze!“ Police Academy
- The “Oil: Miracle Cure for Too-Clean Water” Lobby
- The Gordon Gekko Greed is Good Glee Goonsquad
Why are they all so panicked? Why are they all so strident? Why are their heads a-boil, their eyes a-goggle and their tassels a-twirl?
I agree. Snakes thrash around before dying.
1Hence the Machiavellian ethics
2From the Gallup summary of the poll:
“The shifts could also have a significant effect on politics, with candidates whose positioning is based on holding firm views on certain issues having to grapple with a voting population that, as a whole, is significantly less likely to agree with conservative positions than it might have been in the past.”
To put it mildly! The Gallup Poll organization has been around for 80 years now and has always tried to operate in a nonpartisan matter, but no doubt the Tea Party deniers will be condemning it now as a Commie front.
3By the way, the findings are so well and clearly written by Gallup that they’re well-wort reading directly.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/183413/americans-continue-shift-left-key-moral-issues.aspx?utm_source=Social%20Issues&utm_medium=newsfeed&utm_campaign=tiles
4“worth”
5Bingo, and that is why there is a press for voter suppression. To paraphrase Big Bad Bill Clinton, do the math. The only reason The Shrub was pseudo-elected the first time was Kathleen Hairris and SCOTUS stole the election for him the second time Deibold and Rove took care of it. The last two times there were some clever hackers named Anonymous that kept it from happening (hence the Rove melt down on Fox, it worked before, what could possibly have gone wrong!?).
The numbers have shifted, the majority of the people are on to you, our geeks are smarter than your geeks and even though your Adelson and Koch money is vast, more of us are giving $10, $20, etc than ever before.
Now is when it gets dangerous, the mad dog is wounded, angry and knows it is out numbered. So if it can’t win, buy, or electronically steal the election it has to find a way to disenfranchise and alienate the electorate – that’s all that’s left.
6I’m right handed. That means the left side of my brain is in control of the hand I vote with!
7They are terrified that the gays will gain equal rights under law the same way the blacks have. So now they can’t bad-mouth the blacks anymore, although shooting them still seems to work. But with the gays out of the picture the only ones left are the atheist and they don’t dare go up against us too much harder cuz we will just laugh harder at them and their silly BS and being laughed at is worse than being feared.
8It’s about time. I’ve been waiting since 1980 for the pendulum to swing back. Any farther rightwards and they’d have fallen off the edge of their flat earth. Not that that would be such a bad thing, mind you.
9L.Long — As an out and proud atheist, I probably know most of their religious texts better than they do. I reject them on the basis of critical thinking and science.
10@Zyxomma and L.Long: we atheists scored higher than any religious group on a test of religious knowledge:
http://www.pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx
11“America’s Morals Are Shifting to the Left” … I do fervently wish that homosexuality and gay marriage would not be included as a moral issue. It has nothing to do with morality, except when a gay person marries a person of the opposite sex without disclosure, and sentences that poor person to a sham.
12@Linda
13I believe (and hope) that the morality question of homosexuality in this case lies in the way they are treated, not how they are perceived. In a perfect world anyway.
I have a sign on my refrigerator, given to me by a dear friend, that says: I think, therefore I’m liberal. I’m considering having a bumper sticker made.
@Linda Phipps – You are so very right. Homosexuality is no more a moral issue than hair, eye or skin color. In other words, we don’t choose how we are born. I doubt that the Hypocrites R Us (TM) will ever understand that.
14If only we could get the Left-Leaners to come out and vote for Progressives in ALL elections, our country would be decades ahead of our current regression.
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