As a society our biggest danger comes not from flood, drought, lightning or disease; it comes from us and our core beliefs.
We have in our society, especially in America as opposed to the rest of the civilized world, a very dangerous cadre of anti-social believers — The Cult of Deniers.
The Deniers fit the definition of a cult; it is led by charismatic leaders; it is well funded by a couple of billionaires with an ax to grind, and the all agree — almost in total lockstep — on issues that have become their identifying ideologies.
Credit “The Keystone Funnies”
Leaders such as Texas Senator Ted “The Canadian” Cruz, the Mississippi Governor Jindal, the hog farming Senator Joni “Castrator” Ernst, radio host Rush Limbaugh are among the leaders of this cult. But also half a dozen Senators and a couple of dozen House of Representative members, TV personalities from Fox News and nearly every one of the 2016 Presidential hopefuls of one political party are among those that provide leadership for the Denier Cult into ever more and more bizarre philosophical territory.
Sometimes it seems almost like a sick game, each cult member trying to top the other with ridiculous statements so totally anti-social and anti-human as to seem to be satire in bad taste.
However, the true bosses behind the scenes are the Koch brothers of Texas and Kansas oil and national coal mines. The brothers felt a need for an opposing view of government to supplement an unsuccessful advertising campaign touting big coal and big oil as being pollution free. So they created out of the air, so to speak, the so-called grass roots organization, the “Tea Party.”
They funded bussing transportation of elders from elders communities and brought them together in a bunch. They then had speakers warm them up with scare tactics, handed out placards to carry and called the press to cover the “spontaneous” gathering.
And they carefully control the messages of the cult through the leaders whose campaigns they generously fund that are listed above.
The last identifier of the Deniers Cult is that they reject any explanation, logical, physical or scientific proof that their position on an issue is false.
The Deniers therefor fit the definition of a cult; it has leaders, a major source of nearly unending funding and a set of beliefs or ideologies not allowed to be challenged within the group, and a mission to change society to fit their ideologies.
They deny the President is a legal American citizen, even when his legal birth certificate is posted for all the world to see on the internet.
They deny vaccines work to protect children and society, using as their proof a disproven paper written by a discredited ex-doctor, (he was stripped of his right to practice by the AMA because of his faked data he used in that paper).
They deny that handguns have one purpose and one purpose only — to kill human beings — even in spite of gun deaths far exceeding even traffic accidents during the past year.
They deny “trickle-down economics,” disproven at its conception during the late 1970’s, is a cruel hoax designed simply to enrich the rich and rob the middle-class and the poor, even though simple grade-school mathematics prove it a form of a confidence crime known as the Ponzi scheme.
They deny that global warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels because the oil and coal companies (who would lose money if real efforts were made to stop it) spend tens of millions of dollars each year advertising that their product does not cause the earth to warm. And they deny all effort by reputable scientists who are not being paid by the fossil fuel industry whom, 99 to 1, show proofs that the earth IS warming because of fossil fuels being burnt.
They deny women have an equal part in society, or even a right to contraception or the right to choose what happens between them, their own God and their doctor. Some rumors exist that they have a long term goal to eliminate the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution that gave women the right to vote.
They deny racial hatred is alive and well in America, especially in both middle and Southern States, even with a major political party doing all it can to stir up even more racial hatred and openly supporting armed white supremacy movements, all in a cynical program to win votes from the bigoted.
They deny that a Federal law, The Affordable Care Act, is helping millions of Americans through the maze and institutional secrecy of the health industry by making a simple application form on the internet available to all Americans. And the deny the fact that health care costs have risen less than at any time since 1960.
And Deniers often accuse what they have labelled “Obama Care” of being “Socialist,” even though all profits go directly to private, for profit corporations and their investors who sell the health insurance products. And even though these very insurance companies wrote and pushed for the bill, in order to save the foundering, over-priced, ever-shrinking and under-serving industry.
They deny that Corporations are proven to be anti-social legal entities that tend nearly entirely to place profit above the good of society.
Deniers actively support privatizing of social issues like prisons, education, medicine, water, electricity and other social issues and problems even though the profit motive is diametrically opposed to effective social work or the betterment of citizen’s lives.
They deny that the world is over six or eight thousand years old even when carbon dating, (among many other proofs), a scientific method of accurately establishing great age, shows it over 4.5 billion years old.
And Deniers take pride in their ignorance of fact. The actively refute proofs of fact and belittle fact over belief. Deniers even belittle human intelligence or learning, as if one who uses the brain provided from birth is somehow unpatriotic, or elitist. They actively celebrate those people whose ignorant public statements make the normal folk cringe in shame for the uneducated comments.
And the list goes on and on. Practically anything that benefits humans over investors is denied. Anything that allows for inclusion of all races and nationalities is denied. Anything that benefits society over business is denied. Anyone who proposes helping American people directly is denied. Even programs helping Veterans of our wars is denied, over and over again.
The danger of the deniers is so immediately evident and endemic that it must be attacked head on.
Deniers only fester in society because we allow them to exist.
Anyone denying obvious facts must be confronted, immediately and loudly in all ways possible. It is our duty as Americans to do so.
Corporations fostering denial for reasons of profit need be confronted, teased, commented about in social forums and degraded in popularity, even to the point of boycotting their products.