WHICH POLITICIANS LIVE IN TODAY'S WORLD?

With someone like Christine O'Donnell thinking she can solve the 'people's problems' with something like an edict that there will be no more masturbation, I wonder if she has a plan to control or stop rape.  In British Columbia recently, a Rave party resulted in a 16 year old being drugged and gang raped, filmed, and the rape made into a YouTube.  The teen who placed it on YouTube was contacted by authorities and took the video down, but not before others had copied it.  It immediately appeared on other sites and the law is unable to assure it will not appear again, forcing this young woman to have to live the assault over and over again.  For more details on this story, click here.

It would be impossible for me to vote for the shallow thinking of the more outspoken Teapartiers who have gotten themselves as candidates in the Republican party.  The inconsistencies in their revealed platforms and agendas defy one's ability to respect their thinking, or the notion that they will represent the majority of people in their district.  Their rhetoric makes it appear that they think they have been anointed by the Christian God to whom they pray to mright their perceived ills of their fellow citizens, not to make the world work better, but to force those people to behave in a manner they approve.  These are the people who say they want government out of their lives!

Today, known as TPN (The Tea Party Nation) by which their name alone lets us known how little they are team players with the rest of Americans, To better understand their goals and platform, click here.  They preface their own description with:  "Tea Party Nation is a user-driven
 group of like-minded people who desire our God-given individual
 freedoms written out by the Founding Fathers. We believe in Limited 
Government, Free Speech, the 2nd Amendment, our Military, Secure 
Borders and our Country."  It is not clear to me where their 'God-given'  rights, spoken of by men 300 years ago who knew nothing of science, evolution, or any other of the insights gained to the truth of our Universe since then, might change our outlook.  More than forty years ago, a couple of academics in prestigious institutions saw no reason not to smoke Marijuana and use other drugs to tune out the the pressing problems of the day.  It produced a generation of post-adolescents who had 'tuned out' their most important development years, left with few adequate skills with which to cope with life.

 

The lack of knowledge in some of the Teapartiers about economics, human nature, the Constitution, and so much else appalls me.  Christine O'Donnell, in a snit because the Republicans as a total group are not happy with her candidacy representing herself as a Republican, recently was quoted as saying, "I have often said, "I do not want the Republican Party taking over the Tea Party. I want the Tea Party to take over the Republican Party." 

In other words, they advise, 'don't compromise or look for the good of all, just take over and force your beliefs on all citizens'.  This smacks strongly of a group dictatorship. The anti-abortion zealots strive to force everyone to live by a religious code not shared by all.  Not all want to live by Christian beliefs of a particular denomination when our Constitution guarantees there will be separation of Church and State.  This group professes to "take back' our country and their actions would translate as rather treasonous as Republicans work to make our President fail rather than work to make the country stronger for all its people. 

Unfortunately, otherwise intelligent people are being taken in by their own subtle racial prejudice, their belief in the propaganda and lies they are being told by loud voices they believe to be the truth rather than simple self-serving loud mouths whose singular goal is to make money by their support,  and these good citizens have no idea how they are failing their own country.  Brain washing remains a powerful threat to the future of our country.  Overthrowing the government, I believe, is still  considered treason.