Here we are in a "new" era for North Carolina. Some say its the best thing to happen to this state in 114 years. The Republicans (boosted by the tea party) have control of the general assembly for the first time in 114 years. I was reading some posts on a forum today regarding education funding. It is interesting that the very first thing that the extremists want to attack for cuts is education. I knew that would happen which is why I generally refuse to vote for republicans (and esp for the teabaggers). Without education a society will not last (in the long run). I created this blog with the intention of using it to express to others my frustrations with the current political and social trends in the United States.
I do not worship either political party though I am a registered democrat (which I still consider better than being associated with the republicans as an ignorant fool). I do, however, realize the importance of education. NC has had a difficult uphill climb for education. It is far from where it should be but it has improved a great deal over the last several decades under democratic leadership. Now that republicans "rule the roost" you can expect to see our graduation/dropout/income statistics to slowly plummet to the status of our neighboring southern states. Places like GA, AL, SC!, MS, and LA! Why do we want to go the direction of ignorance.
I do believe that the biggest political challenge of our current generation is balancing state and federal budgets. Fiscal responsibility is paramount! It will tear us apart if we don't start fixing it soon. The republicans claim they will but they never have in the past. Why should I believe them now because they shout about fiscal responsibility with spit flying from their mouth?
The Tea Party is a cancer on society. NO one I think is completely prejudice free and least of all me. But they strike as a bunch of greedy, racist, homophobic thugs who are hell bent on merging corporations with the state (government). Mussolini even called this FASCISM. And yet people fail to see the danger in this. Everything is "socialism" that doesn't agree with the tea party people. And yet socialism is in one way or another the merger of corporations and state which is exactly what the tea party wants. It is a form of duplicity they practice and it is dangerous. The Nazi Party carried out similar actions prior to WWII. They presented themselves as a popular Nationalist party for the common man. Look what happened there?
Can no one see this? I can clearly see it and history has plenty of information to teach us all about the direction the tea party (and some republicans) are headed? Do you really trust bank executives who crashed banks 2 years ago to run our government? Or would you like to continue to retain the ability to vote and actually have your real opinions represented in the federal and state governments?
It is important to consider these questions in light of history. There are some who say that those who don't agree with the tea party version of history are revisionists. Another example of duplicity. Do you realize how people really were prior to the revolution? It was not a Christian, puritanical society as a majority (though they did exist in significant numbers). In fact, alcohol was consumed at its highest in the US during this time and sexual promiscuity was everywhere (not saying that is always a good thing but history tells us this particularly in the large cities like Philadelphia, NY, Boston, Charleston, etc). The founding fathers certainly respected Christians and their right to practice their religion. But Thomas Jefferson and others were also very distrusting of religious influence and control over a secular government. This is what they left in Europe!
Some other Christians say that many of the founding fathers were ordained ministers. I'd like to know where they invented and conjured up that cracker jacked nonsense. I will investigate and research that topic one day as I don't have complete clarity on it. But even if they were ordained ministers I can tell you that many of their writings were not in support of a Christian government but rather a secular government representative of the people. I am a Christian myself and some will smack heresy over what I just said because after all the other Christians already have all the answers and having a different opinion means you simply haven't "accepted the truth". Whose truth? Their revisionist truth? :)
I suppose that tonight's post is quite a long rant. There are a few things I agree with "conservatives" on. For instance, if I told people right up front how I felt about the second amendment they would just assume I drive a pickup with an NRA sticker on the bumper and rifle up on a rack in the back window. Actually, it couldn't be further from the truth. But in this case, the constitution was clearly written by the founders to protect individual rights to own firearms. I will not mess with that because I think it is very clear what the founders meant.
So you see, I don't drink water from the Elephant or the Donkey bowl either one. But, I try within certain parameters to consider history, current circumstances, and human nature to decide for myself what I think is going on and what should be done. Sometimes I am wrong. I am human and I don't claim to have all the answers. But, I am also a bit cynical especially when someone tells me "thats the truth". Well, I won't ask them to prove what they say. Thats foolish and best left alone. But in my own mind I will automatically assume that i need to find out for myself since many times the things that people told me were the "absolute truth" turned out to be a pile of rubbish even within the reality framework of human life and human nature.
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