This is most likely a useless exercise, writing about hate, the kind of hate that starves the poor, ignores the unemployed and promotes racism. Yes, I am talking about the conservative right-wing of American politics.
We bear witness to the end product of right-wing thinking when we see armed militias from Montana trying to protect a Nevada rancher who has been stealing from the American people, when right-wing extremists try to gather enough people in Washington DC to engineer a coup, when right-wing politicians take action to prevent people from voting and engage in gerrymandering, and when right-wing groups carry racist signs about the President and it is okay to hang the President in effigy.
The strangest aspect of this social trend is these people claim to be patriots while advocating fascism. Unfortunately, there is already enough fascism in this nation. The right-wing has blocked everything proposed by the left for two years or more, would rather people starve than provide a means of access to food or medical help on the theory that they will find a job, they will survive even if they are booted, family and all, on to the street and have to face urban laws against homelessness.
Who is running this nation, anyway? People like the Koch Brothers who want to eliminate any regulation on any subject. Yes, we are living under Corporatism, fascism ala-Mussolini.
We survived a liar of a President who ran this nation into the ground before taking up portrait painting, who started an unprecedented and illegal war without taking responsibility for the thousands of dead Americans he caused.
So, where are we? Get a gun, nobody trusts anybody. Militias, small armies of extremists. Racism rearing its ugly head again – all the way to the US Supreme Court. Paranoia, hate for anyone different, bible-thumpers trying to jam religion down our throats, and let us build an almighty pipeline across middle America because we can’t pollute fast enough by just fracking.
And the lemmings on the right follow an ideology without questioning, marching into the rising sea, and they preach on our televisions telling us lies that might otherwise be called propaganda. Is it an Orwellian 1984? Could be! You have no privacy per the NSA.
What has happened to America? Is it some sort of mass stupidity? Or, follow the fad, if you don’t know the answer to any question, then we must hate. Dare we ask?
Gerald Lively