Sunday, December 9, 2012

Ideology meets reality, and the right is bitten in the ass

The notion that we will be better off with less government, cutting first responders, education, and social safety net spending is pure ideology disconnected from reality. Tea Partier or not, I'd do whatever I could to stop a burglary or any other kind of harm to a neighbor.


But the reality is that the Tea Party insistence on this has begun to annoy people who find out for themselves how wrong the Tea Party is, and what a failure the right wing policies are.

Today in Minnesota we are looking at our first snow storm, with a predicted accumulation of 9 inches, high winds, bitter cold.  Our snow plow crews are already out plowing roadways, and the Highway Patrol is assisting people in around 60 accidents so far, thankfully only a few with injuries.

I am grateful for Eisenhower-style moderate Republicans who understood the value of going into debt to grow a nation through investment in our existing infrastructure, like our interstate highway system.  I am grateful to leftists and centrists, who understand the perils of trying to privatize every damn thing.  I am grateful to the visionaries, who no longer include the right in any way, who understood the value of a space program, including those satellites which assist us in predicting our weather and anticipating storms so that we may better prepare.

Government IS the answer, to many more things than the right is willing or able to admit; their ideology has become crippling to them. It is causing them to lose touch with objective reality and the ability to look at the world around them in any way other than through their ideological filter; they deny whatever doesn't fit their world view.  They fear facts; they embrace ignorance and fear as their choice, they choose delusion and fantasy and paranoia.

The right is not only looking towards a past that never was, they are trying to move BACKWARDS into that imaginary time.  They are doing so with their eyes tightly closed so that they can avoid seeing all the many, many, many things which contradict their ideology.

I do not hate or dislike Tea Partiers; in fact quite the opposite, I enjoy  many of them one on one, except for the disagreement over political topics.  But their lack of a clear, fact-derived vision, and their extremist delusions which are increasing instead of receding, deeply concerns me.


Some of our readers may think the above is a bit too strong, a bit harsh. It is not; here is the ideology that is nothing less than tyranny.  What is written below is chilling, because it is true, especially if you add gender to the last belief listed.





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