Sean, Rush, Glenn - They're all Progressives!

Another letter to the editor of my local newspaper this morning, tries to associate Hitler banning Christmas in Germany to people's objections in line with separation of church and state today.

"Hitler and his fanatical followers made an intense effort to abolish the traditional Christmas celebration in Germany.  He substituted the winter solstice, and Father Winter as gift distributor as a December holiday.  The people rejected the attempt.  It did not succeed then, and it won't succeed now."

I laughed.  Where do these people get this drivel?  I suppose, but I cannot confirm (or at least haven't tried), that someone on right-wing-nut-job radio or TV planted these "facts".

But then, a light bulb went off above my head!

Ohmygosh! This whole Rush Nutjob, Faux Noise, et al...is actually a brilliant Progressive conspiracy!

Oh shit! How freakin' dumb have I been?

It's so simple too.

All of this, based on an argument so old as to have been all but forgotten. The argument used to be made that women, black people, etc. (blond people?), were not smart enough to actually vote in our democracy.  As time went on and we all evolved and fought for our rights, women and African Americans did win their right to vote.  Much has been said over the years since then, about "they live among us, they breed, and they vote!" Usually these statements are contained within a derogatory email containing a picture of some unfortunate fool or as an advertisement for the website, www.peopleofwalmart.com.

That's what the Progressive elite are doing - without any doubt in my mind now - pointing out that there really are people too stupid to vote!

Yes!  I am saying that Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes...they're all Progressives!

By spoon feeding all the ridiculous drivel, convincing these poor fools of "facts" that are stupendously simple to refute - they are proving the notion that there is an entire subset of the population that are too stupid to vote. This portion of the population are so stupid, uneducated or unsophisticated enough to be dangerous in wielding a precious vote that effects the rest of this nation, and may place its very sovereignty in jeopardy.

I couldn't have considered this a viable explanation, if they had merely stuck to opinions.   When all these insidious Progressives work tirelessly to convince their sorry followers of facts that don't exist, well, that's where their ploy is exposed.  The brilliance comes in when they choose facts and events that took place when many who were there during the events and experienced them, are still alive to refute their claims based on first hand experience.  Even in the issues such as the foundation of this country, these followers make such mistakes regarding significantly documented facts and opinions such as those found within the writings of Thomas Jefferson himself, as well as others.

Indeed, the claims being bandied about today are so absurd as to be ignored by any authoratative historians and biographers.  Unfortunately, those very historians and biographers who could and would refute the claims have been all but silenced by the mainstream media, with the excuse that such claims are so ignorant, no one is seriously believing them.

Oh! But they are.  So much so, those silly claims are getting such common play that they're on the verge of becoming accepted.

Acceptance.  Therein lies the fatal flaw of the Progressive Ploy.

Oops.

Droppings...of Bugs and Brains

Years ago, I lived in this crappy little apartment, high on a bluff above the beach. Anyone living near the beach knows that lots of pests come with living in such a beautiful place. It's the trade-off.

Every time you turned out the lights in this apartment, bugs would start lurking...great big cockroaches, little bitty beetles, big black ants, little red ants...all sorts of grimy slimy icky yucky bugs. (skin crawling in remembrance)

It's like that with the wackos in society today. Only it used to be that they were only there when we turned off the lights. Ask any cop. They'll tell you that as soon as the sun goes down, the crazies come out. Just like in my apartment.

I tweeted this metaphor a while ago, and it was commented that was a really good metaphor. Alas, this metaphor goes further.

When I lived in that crappy little apartment, besides when the lights were off, if you turned on the stove or oven, so you could cook and feed yourself, the bugs would come out - en masse. (think 'hot foot'.) If you can't stand the heat, time to get out of the range, I guess. (My apologies to President Truman for the hatchet job on his quote.)

Something's happened. We are trying to be progressive. Something most of us think is good. As we are trying to metaphorically "feed ourselves", cook a meal so we can sustain ourselves and thrive, all the while, the bugs are billowing out of the range!

The $64,000 question is, what do we do about it?

Do we eradicate the pests each day the best we can, and just wait for the next round of bugs to move in?

Do we set up some sort of toxic environment in which the bugs cannot survive?

Do we tear down the building that harbors the pests and start anew?

As we consider our options, it's prudent to remember, that any bugs left behind will breed...(metaphorically and literally).

By the way, anyone who lives here, in the USA, knows that these bugs, er, crazies come with living in such a free and tolerant country. It's the trade-off.

Oh, and no, I don't have the solution to this one figured out. It bites me just as bad as it does everyone else though :)