Kevin Perry wrote on Wed, 03 November 2004 10:15 |
Hi George.....why do you say this? Because millions more people disagree with you than agree with you it must be that they don't know what you know? They haven't read what you have read? I think we're living in the day of the most informed voters ever thanks to the internet with sites like factcheck, votesmart and other legit resources. Yes, of course there is a lot of crap out there.....but 20 years ago what were the information resources? Don't write off people as uninformed just because your in the minority on one election. When you voted for a winning candidate in the past, did that mean people were adequately reading?
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Bush does not read the papers, only the Bible.
Our country is in the hands of a majority who have a flawed view ... that religious Freedom means ruling the democracy with their Religious view.
If every American had only a 2 year college education as to the intent of our country, by reading the papers of all the founders, on all sides ... they would find out that we are off course. Today is not the spirit of America, today is the ongoing death of democracy.
To vote is not democracy.
To win a majority is not to be Righteous.
This is not a matter or 'opinion' or 'bias' .. it's a matter of fact.
When faith trumps fact, you have a theocracy. Everything about this election says Theocracy. The fear campaign, the exit polls on values over issues, the education of most of the red counties in America. I have 100% respect for the faith of every American, but their intelligence is another matter. Their understanding of what America is, that's another matter too.
I was asked in a PM .. "what to do?" do we relive the 20s and exPatriate?
No. To leave would be to quit and to accept the majority as right.
The religious right is a fear based and hateful bunch of people who masquerade around as if they know love and conservatism. They do not know love, nor tolerance, and they do not understand the country they control at this time. Their 'conservatism' is global Theocracy.
America is not a majority-rule idea ... it's a timeless idea based in principles that include defending the minority views. There is a huge priority placed on this by the Founders.
We need to reeducate the majority and we need to love them, even as they hate us, and hate the various minority ideas that they suppress.
We need to expand our own congregations and we need to stick together for America's future. We need to slowly educate the majority that their morality is their choice as Americans, yet their rulership is mandated by a wider standard.
For sure we now know this.... the bubble of American ethical supremacy in the world, and all the economic, principle based and diplomatic (read: freedom spreading) gains that came with that are gone.
The moral talk of the Right is a smokescreen for their insular views, their fear of freedom and the diverstity of humanity, and their narrow and manipulative definition of values.