On Fascist Theocracy

Maybe I've seen too many chickenhawk congressmen and Teabaggers in the last couple weeks, but I really do think Americans at large have a serious problem. Sure, we love our veterans and want them to have all the care and protection they deserve, not to mention our active-duty, reserves and National Guard units. I understand that they protect the country and even though we may quibble about policy and deployment, we would be in real trouble without the protection our military offers us.

BUT.

For going on 200 years now, the mainland United States has not been a theater for warfare against a major foreign threat (with the exception of Mexico, which paled in comparison to standard European armies of the day), and the lessons we should've learned in the Civil War seem more and more distant everyday, especially in light of the Tea Party's push for "states rights"/subversion of the federal government.

Not to discount the impact and tragedy of Pearl Harbor and September 11th, most Americans (myself included) have no experience with war on the homefront. I contend that this has led to an America largely unable to empathize with the victims of warfare, massacres, and injustices on a large scale. For this reason, I have nothing but contempt for the overwhelming majority of Teabaggers who spew their xenophobic hyperbole in an attempt to cast themselves as victims of fascism, Nazism, communism, socialism, Islam, atheism, or any number of conspiracies. This is fear-mongering at its worst that, in the end, will only perpetuate the cycle of crying wolf until the real threat- fascist theocracy- can and will creep among us unobstructed. We've already seen in the person of Wade Michael Page that these kinds of threats exist. Though arguing that he was a theocrat would be pointless at present, we can certainly ascribe his motives to the kind of rhetoric that the right has been buddying up with ever-so-closely in the last couple years.

This is why we all try so hard to expose their faulty logic, their lies, their war-mongering, their distortions, their hatred, and ultimately their efforts to legislate us all into mindless obedience to a political cult posing as Christianity. That the actions of some of the more sanctimonious on the right wing should not be taken as examples of Christ-like behavior is something to be remembered at all times.

Steven Kohlbert, over and out.