Comments Are From The Devil
In what very well may turn out to be a continuing series of real-world analogies, today I offer the notion that the current state of insanity-politics is like blogging. Unfortunately, the neocons control the entries, in part thanks to the so-called “liberal media”—you know, the ones owned by huge multinationals...freakin' hippies—while the progressives are limited to the comments sections.
I'll give the Christians credit...stealing a page (a violation of the 10 C's) from their soi disant enemies was something no one saw coming. Not even those of us who are suspect of such people. You know, those who put so much confidence in Someone Who can't be bothered to show His face directly to anyone and Who taught His followers that sex outside of marriage, surrogate motherhood and underage sex were evil (but only after He sired a Savior from a 13 year old). In fact, in this day and age, God would have to register as a sex offender in most states in this country, by current definitions.
Anyhoo...so the ends (theocracy, or at least theocratic domination) justify the means (stealing tactics from the less savory types). As long as they get what they want after they've taken it from someone else (and isn't that covetous behavior?): the limelight.
So they have it, and the Foxies and the Rushies and the Hannities and the Coulters in the halters and the delays caused by the DeLays all come together in three rings o' fun.
The neocons have the stage even though they don't deserve it and they certainly aren't very talented or entertaining. Shameful in their excesses of greed, xenophobia and the odd mix of half-assed science and even-more-assed faith, they're like a second-rate USO show, there only to drum up the troops that will march across the face of the earth bringing Jesus' message of peace poised primly at the tip of a government-issue rifle.
They're like the bully that shows up and takes the ball away from a group who was merely having fun sharing it amongst them.
Time to take the ball and the stage and the initiative back, don't you think?