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Originally Posted by Hanna
Hanna, you are right about this and frankly, it terrifies me. The religious fanatics in America have gone so far off the deep-end and they are throwing our country into a tailspin with their insane politics. Our economy is in tatters because of the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they want to INCREASE our military activities around the globe and cut education, health care, and welfare for the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and homes during our economic crisis. We keep calling it a recession, but it's far more akin to a depression. My father was a survivor of the Great Depression and I remember many of the stories he told me in childhood. It is becoming very similar to that now. There are thousands of American families living in their cars. Yet, the religious "right" (as in right wing, not morally "right") are more interested in making birth control illegal, requiring pregnant women to undergo all sorts of bizarre procedures at the behest of the State - even to the extent that miscarriage is now considered "manslaughter" in some states and women can go to JAIL for falling down while pregnant. They believe that a woman who is raped "deserves it" and should be forced to keep the baby, even if the "woman" in question is 13 years old and was raped by her own father!
I don't know how these people can call themselves "christian" when they are against everything Jesus stood for. They love money, and they hate people. When the tea Party went berserk and elected the most freakish candidates they could find to public office, there was a mad spate of insane laws passed all around the country. People can now bring guns into bars, libraries and schools in some states - there is an unjustified fear that Obama wants to "take away everyone's guns" (even though he has not enacted any gun control legislation and has even relaxed some restrictions), they openly threaten the President, are obsessed with his birth certificate and trying to prove he is "Muslim," and they have demolished regulations on big businesses so that people can be fired at will and have no recourse to dispute it, big businesses can pollute the environment, contaminate our drinking water, cause earthquakes with their "frakking" (drilling for natural gas) and dump more oil into our nature preserves and oceans. It's gone so far beyond simply disturbing that I don't have words for it anymore.
It's crazy here. The right wing loves guns, "god" (read: money) and wars - hates women, people of color, gays and foreigners - basically anyone who is not white, male and "christian" is their target. We now live in a bizarre alternate universe where up is down, down is sideways, and sideways is a banana!
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