It's a mystery to me why the religious right is so conservative? I believe in Jesus Christ and I have studied his teachings and deeds. From a national policy standpoint What Would Jesus Do? I'm not suggesting that we promote ourselves as a 'Christian Nation' but if you are a Christian wouldn't you want your country to demonstrate Christian values. What are Christian values? That's getting be be a real scary term for me. People are beginning to associate Christian values with anti-gay movement, anti stem cell research, right to life, censorship, abstenance only programs. Interpreting the New Testament on these issues will have to wait for another time but let's look at the basics. It's easy to see some clear national goals within the miracles and deeds of Christ. Jesus clearly demonstrated a desire for healing. Most of his miracles were healing the sick. Conservatives will say will can't provide universal health care because it cost stoo much. At the same time they are quite willing to spend many times more money on war. For the cost of the Iraq war we could have had universal health care many times over. Conservatives have choosen, as a national policy, not to relieve pain and suffering but cause pain and suffering instead. Jesus also chose to feed the hungry. From a conservative, national policy standpoint that's known as an 'entitlement program' or a government hand-out. I don't have a solution for the problem of people that chose to be be hungry and needy but we can not let people starve for fear that someone will take advantage of the program. These are only 2 examples of miracles Jesus performed and how I think they relate to national policy. There's also the water-to wine miracle. I'm not sure what that national policy coorelation would be. And, after the stock market tanked this week maybe I'll look at how Jesus felt about the finance industry of his day. Time and again I look at a national policy debate and it is obvious that Jesus stands with the liberal Democrats. I beleive that if we were to actually act like a Christian nation we would not need a military and the world would admire us.
The conservatives I'm coming across now are complete Ostriches. They have their head in the sand. They refuse to hear any information that doesn't match what they are being told by the Rebuplican leaders. They don't really believe in Global Warming. They blame borrowers for the mortgage crisis. They still think the Iraq war was right and justified. They believe there were WMDs found in Iraq and Saddam was in on 9/11. They believe a hockey mom can be President. I actually had a coworker tell me that the only media that can be trusted was Fow News. He admitted that some of the shows were biased but the news was completly fair and balanced. Amazing. So, there are people that refuse to see the obvious. I try not to get frustated by that. But it really disturbs me that such a large segment of our population has been completly hoodwinked and brainwashed. Isn't this what heppened in Germany in the 1930s?
How to defnd against the "Dems are Socialists" attack:
The repubs will try to scare voters into believing any democrat led change will be a hard left turn straight to socialism. They use 'socialism' as a hot button word that dredges up Cold War fears. After all, socialism must be very bad, it was one of the S's in USSR. The bad part of socialism, in my mind, is the elimination of private property. The part of socialism that this country could use is a more equal distribution of wealth. With the widening ecomomic divide a little turn toward socialism wouldn't hurt.
