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I'm Angry At What's Happening To America And Angry With Myself That I Can't Do More. I Would Be Miserable If I Couldn't Bear Witness.

Theology Asserts Propositions That Cannot Be Proven True; Ideologues Hold Stoutly To A Worldview Despite Being Contradicted By What Is Generally Accepted As Reality. When Ideology And Theology Couple, Their Offspring Are Not Always Bad But They Are Always Blind. And There Is The Danger: Voters And Politicians Alike, Oblivious To The Facts.

Barack Obama Treated Too Lightly The People And Forces Determined To Destroy Him. They Spat In His Face And Didn't Even Get Ticketed For A Misdemeanor.

I've Always Thought The American Eagle Needed A Left Wing And A Right Wing. The Right Wing Would See To It That Economic Interests Had Their Legitimate Concerns Addressed. The Left Wing Would See To It That Ordinary People Were Included In The Bargain. Both Would Keep The Great Bird On Course. But With Two Right Wings Or Two Left Wings, It's No Longer An Eagle And It's Going To Crash.

Conservatives Or Better, Pro-corporate Apologists Hijacked The Vocabulary Of Jeffersonian Liberalism And Turned Words Like "progress," "opportunity," And "individualism" Into Tools For Making The Plunder Of America Sound Like Divine Right. This "degenerate And Unlovely Age," As One Historian Calls It, Exists In The Mind Of Karl Rove The Reputed Brain Of George W. Bush As The Seminal Age Of Inspiration For Politics And Governance Of America Today.