Posted by:
unmet
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Date: January 31, 2017 09:35AM
How is this for a connection?
Fear.
Real or imagined, the current political bent toward pleasing the majority of religious people to gain their favor terrifies me.
The possibility of a very conservative, bible-based SC, for whom the "rights" of the many supercede the rights of individuals, nauseates me.
I care very much if our leaders behave like the Q, setting phony moral dictates which become the law of the land. Most everyone on this board has suffered from religious rule.
I don't put much stock in either side of the aisle in doing what is best to "preserve, protect and defend" The Constiution or this nation. I'm guessing, of course, but I don't think that 70,000? pages of tax code designed to protect the lawmakers' wealth is what the founders had in mind. It's very "Q" behavior, IMHO.
Our leaders, religious and political, and collectively, best defend their own selfish interests. Even someone like Lincoln is quoted as saying that if he could preserve both slavery and the nation, he would do so. Those words are hard to forget, but many have never read or heard them, and for others, they ignore them.
I think words matter. When I read or hear the words of our CIC, I fear. Those similar to him have much less to fear. That he reacts so quickly, so rashly, with so little thought as to how he is governed by emotion, seems to be a faith he has in only himself. A cult of one.
I can't predict what his leadership will bring, but I know this taste of fear, and thought it a thing of my past.