Monday, October 25, 2010

Anti-Washington Vs. Anti-America

This election has literally become very negative. The winners will be determined by which "anti-" sentiment gets the most people out to vote. Voters fall into one of the two Anti movement groups: the Anti-Washington group and the Anti-American group.

The anti-Washington movement is fueled by anti-government sentiment.

The Anti-Washington group is essentially against the Democrats. They are the party in power, so they are the party that is blamed for the problems that we are facing as a nation right now, as well as some problems that are entirely made up by or for the media's consumption. The Democrats are in charge, so therefore they are the "Washington insiders" who have either succeeded or failed, depending on which media narrative you are following.

The Anti-America group manifests itself as the Republican Tea Party. They are so determined to have Obama fail that they are willing to have America fail to do it. They want to take Obama down by taking America down.

The Republican Tea Partiers often claim to be defending the Constitution. But they hypocritically proclaim they want to change the Constitution. As the self-proclaimed defenders of the Constitution, they really mean they want to defend only selected parts of it. They skip over the First Amendment, which creates the separation of church and state, because they believe the founding fathers would have wanted the commingling of religion and government. They conveniently ignore decades of legal precedent. They also ignore the fact that the founding fathers really did oppose the commingling of church and state, and that's precisely why they wrote the 1st Amendment! Teabaggers instead focus mostly on defending the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms because that one is supposedly under attack.

Republicans have said they don't like the 17th Amendment. They are against the election of U.S. Senators by the voters. That is a pretty Anti-American idea. They also want to change the 14th Amendment; specifically, they want to change the part that makes everyone who is born here a U.S. citizen. I think it is important to point out that this is the way that ALL natural born Americans became U.S. citizens. In other words, the vast majority of Republican Tea Partiers became citizens through the 14th Amendment - but they want to change it. How much more Anti-American can you get than to be against the Constitution? Read on.

Republicans in the Senate rail against the lack of job creation by the government, but have voted against every measure to create jobs. They voted against safeguards that would prevent our economy from crashing again. And they voted against making oil drilling off our coast safer. They vote against everything that is good for America. On every issue, Republicans have taken a hard-line Anti-American stance. They are willing to scuttle America for the sake of giving the wealthiest people in the world (not just Americans) an even greater portion of America's wealth. They block every effort by Democrats to build America up. Then they fill the media with their convoluted spin that somehow they are "doing America good."

The prevailing Republican attitude is "Either you give us all of the money and power, or we'll take America down!" Taking America hostage is as Anti-American you can get.

There are two kinds of people in America: those who want to take Obama down by taking America down, and those who want to build America up.

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1 comment:

commoncents said...

THANK YOU for posting this! Keep up the great work!

Steve
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