Friday, March 27, 2009

Right wing hypocrisy


I remember back in the 60's when to oppose the Vietnam war was almost equal to being a traitor. The phrase uttered in those days was "My country, right or wrong" or "America.. love it or leave it". During the Iraq war, a war based on lies and deceit, right wingers were accusing those who opposed this most unAmerican of wars of being unpatriotic. Why is patriotism the province of only the right wing politicians? Why is it when you oppose THEIR policies, you are unpatriotic? Today right wingers like Rush Limbaugh,Bobby Jindal, and Fred Thompson are hoping Obama will fail in his policies designed to get this nation back on track. But is this unpatriotic? Not according to them. The right wing is now so fearful that their way of life is being threatened that they stoop to what in another age would border on traitorous. A way of life based on racism, white supremacy,creationism,homophobia, religious hatred, aggression, greed and sexism, that in this 21st century is both obsolete and anachronistic. They are like cornered rats. The hate politics of the right wing,spawned by Joe McCarty and Dick Nixon, nutrured thru 45 years of cold war are as old and tired as the people who support these politics. A younger generation has disavowed their vision of America. No longer do phrases like the silent majority or moral majority hold any sway over America. Their are Republicans out there who do not share this vision of America, however the leaders of the RNC, it seems are deseparately trying to make this issue the substance of their party. Moderate Republicans, take heed, if you don't reform your party,one of two things will happen. Some kind of right wing coup to take over government or the extinction of your party. We let Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld run this country into the ground for 8 years. Most of those out in this neck of the woods don't support Obama for one reason, he's Black. Those days are over, my friends

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