Cowards
Republicans have tried to, and formerly did, stay in office by raising fear of anything that might be different to their constituents.
The Town Hall Protests remind me of the integration mandated under Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Some people thought it was the end of civilization and that the United States of America would perish if people were actually treated equally. Because in their eyes, people are not equal.
If you watch the fear in the faces of those filmed in the 50’s and 60’s, it is quite similar to those of the Town Hall Protesters.
Why do they fear change? It is in the nature of conservatism to be cautious, and also to distrust change. Change brings adjustment. Adjustment means you cannot do or be the same that you were. And if you saw yourself at the apex of power in the world, any change may diminish that power. It is to be feared.
Why do they fear so much? Why do the listeners and viewers of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, et al., feed on the fear they are given? Because they are cowards. They are afraid like little babies are afraid of the unknown future and how it may diminish them. Manifest destiny is a racist/xenophobic philosophy. We don’t talk much in this country about our genocide of the Native Americans.
We know that the right has become a village of whiners, they have no policies to promote besides their failed policies, and all they have to gather themselves together is fear of change. Fear of anything not them.
Climate change, pollution, health care, energy independence, self-sustaining growth, racial and ethnic divisions, and on and on, WE are changing the way we see these things as not problems, but opportunities to progress.
We need to call them out on their cowardice of change and progress. It will be better for all of us to accept the place this world has come to.
Heroes are not without fear. But they put one foot in front of the other to get it done, whether they are soldiers in the battlefield or people working on the streets of the communities. Everyday people who are not afraid that they will be diminished if they help other people become stronger.
Cowards are full of fear and it overpowers their sense of right.
We need to call them what they are: Cowards.