May 30, 2013

Conservative vs. Liberal vs. Uber Conservative

Wow!  This has been a week.  More and more, the people who surround me in my community who I have always taken to be centrists are letting their freak flags flay as Michelle Bachmann announces "RETREAT!" (only to reveal an even more profitable position, a sex scandal to justify her divorce and new marraige to a "real" Christian, as if gays cannot believe in G_d... ya right! that is to unfold in the future as she works her way to the conservative gooey center to wow us with her 2016 Presidential announcement and all the court's jokers will once again light up.  With her withdrawl, I am only saddened by the fact that her absense will make my heart grow... flounder.  Mostly because Michelle Bachmann is a cold fish.

But what about this Politico Cold War inside of our great union?  There are some people who I look at and wonder if we are the war generation, reborn.  Doesn't matter which one - pick one and uphold your side, right?  And we are continuing this nonsense because???  Now there are somethings that are common sense, not conservative or liberal.  Then there are others that separate us.  And rather than take the time to understand each other, we sanctioned these three sectors to torture each other using legislature and other peoples, hmm hmm taxpayer, money to do it.  We continue to use the DOD to traffic guns and cocaine.  They tell us that is how they fund so much of their program, its not a conspiracy theory... just the crazy truth. 

Why are Americans not demanding more of themselves as individuals? Is it only ok if Oprah or Dr. Phil say so to improve ones sense of self and others or we just simply are incapable of being nice?  That is not the America I was raised to believe in, yet am increasingly disappointed by most of my contemporaries and sometimes myself. 

So while I cannot stand a stump-speeching Tea-bagger only for the racism, sexism and homophobic contributors and sometimes violent standards of the party.  I think the Tea Party will trigger the next civil war unless it is dissolved. 

Until that day... Cup of tea?