Giving the Political Right Everything They Want

There are things we pretty much know to a metaphysical certitude. People say that forty percent of the right wing believe in the "Last Times" theology with Armageddon and all that. We can pretty much say any scenario they come up with they'll be wrong on ninety percent of the facts, if not all of them. We know for example that they will not talk about their beliefs with people like me, who have read the Bible. Basically Born Again Christians don't enjoy sharing what they're about because they know they look stupid when they talk. They just use their beliefs as sort of a code identifier to identify fellow believers. We hear that George Bush passed up the advice of his earthly father and instead heeded the advice of his heavenly father on the Iraq war. We can pretty much state to a metaphysical certitude that Christianity will never be proved, will never be "vindicated" or validated nor, or for any eternity in the future here on planet earth. In the same way that soap operas are predictable, so the Born Again right is predictable. Whether you are listening to them live over the radio or listening to a 35 year old tape, you're hearing the same thing, because these people never grow. Why should they? They think they're perfect. They work for the same "bad script writer" that for instance works on Days of Our Lives. We can pretty much say to a metaphysical certitude that Hope and Bo's marriage is over, that their twenty two year relationship will end in divorce. We can also say confidently that John Black will be in jail serving a term before he ever gets Marlena away from Alex. If you know "the ways of" the writers you can predict where they will go. Just as I can pretty much predict to a metaphysical certitude that I have no future in Christianity no matter what I choose to believe or not believe.

I didn't know that it's the same author who wrote both "The Emerging Republican Majority" in 1969, and "The New Theocracy" this past year. In the first book the author was siding with the right wing celebrating their victory. Many people have misconceptions about the year 1968. The reactionism we are experiancing now began in this year where Nixon and Humphrey were tied virtually in the popular vote, but that another twelve percent were to the right voting for George Wallace. In actuality Nixon had a majority of 57% running against a conservative pro Viet Nam war democrat! When Spiro Agnew gave a speech attacking the press and Nixon gave his "Great Silent Majority" speech, who would have guessed he was signaling one of the great Megatrends in modern society? A "C Change" of vast perportion was taking place. The author of "Theocracy" is obviously upset with all the religion in American society and seems to regard its presence throughout American history is some abnormal phenominon. The author's other concern is our addiction to mideast oil. We obviously didn't go to war in Iraq for oil or else the price wouldn't be so high.

The economy is running on mountains of debt. Someone said the debt industry is now outweighing regular industry as a percentage of the gross national product. The trade deficets we are running with China and other nations is astronomical and unprecidented. Personal debt is rising to new alarming perportions. It really doesn't take a tea leaf reader to say that pretty soon we are going to have one whipping business recession in this country. As we mentioned on an earlier posting 1929 may be just around the corner. Things economically are the most precarious in this country they have ever been since 1929. The last time I checked margin rates now were at fifty percent as opposed to eighty percent forty years ago. That means whatever crash in stocks we experiance the impact will be doubled. Some people say that will never happen. The way I see it an economic crash of some sort is almost inevitable. And we will all have george bush to blame. One pastor learned a poem as a little boy that went something like this:

Oh be careful little eyes what you see (ect. ect.)
Oh be careful little ears what you hear (ect. ect.)
Oh be careful little mouth what you say (ect. ect.)

We have this see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil mentality now among the Born Again right. And should the country go to hell in a hand basket they're not worried because they have a golden parachute in the form of instantanious transportation to the Pearly Gates. We have given the right wing everything they want. They have the courts, they have the Presidency and the executive branch, and they have the House and Senate. They can't win anything else. What we have now is akin to the Middle Ages when the Church ran everything and controled all the manuscripts and all knowledge. Whatever history we know now is only what that Church of the middle ages has allowed us to know. I get a little annoyed when people say, "There is almost no historic document saying Jesus was married". According to Tammy Bruce the Church came up with the doctrine of celebacy for Priests because other priests were leaving their vast fortunes to their children, their offspring. The church had to find a way to gain wealth and eliminating children as inheritors was just what they needed. Let me ask you this question. Were things perfect in the middle ages? Some may say "Well the church made a mistake". A mistake is something you make on a pop math quiz. This was a thousand year "mistake". Lots of murder and other oppression went on in that thousand years. People say the Catholic Church's opposition to astronomic science was just a "mistake" but their policy of repression went on well over a hundred years. You have the Dixie Chicks. Certain segments of our society are so bigoted that they will turn their back on this group after one little oppinion about George Bush in 2003. It's a testimony to red necked people in "Jesus Land" that they could virtually put a whole music group. Well, the Dixie Chicks are back and we'll see if they do better this time around.

The Christian Right today has very little to do with traditional conservative values in this country. Their view of the Constitution is very selective. They most certainly do not believe in either "limited government" or "ballanced budgets". Their views on China are whatever the President tells them to believe. They often are downright apathetic on the subject of human rights violations world wide. They hate Jimmy Carter though any president during this period would have suffered the same fate. Many of the energy conservation measures Jimmy Carter instituted actually ended up benefiting the Reagan adminestration. OK, I've said enough.