national schizophrenia
It’s getting harder, indeed, nearly impossible, to admit to being an American these days.
This from someone who doesn’t embarrass easily.
How else to deal with a national (Republican) mentality that seems to have gone completely haywire? As I sit and watched George W. Bush flat-palm his podium endlessly at the last debate, I couldn’t help but notice the schizophrenia – or emotional instability, choose your illness – that exists in the rhetoric. For one cannot simultaneously purport to “spread freedom and liberty” while preventing one’s own citizens from exercising the very fundamental freedom of controlling what happens with one’s own body. As for pretending to be a president who “doesn’t want to tell people how to live their lives,” how else does one characterize a constitutional amendment that does just that? The icing on the cake, of course, is the constant hailing of Jesus, God and religion as the guiding force in all (Republican) matters. It makes me want to book one-way tickets for my whole family to Canada.
This from someone who doesn’t embarrass easily.
How else to deal with a national (Republican) mentality that seems to have gone completely haywire? As I sit and watched George W. Bush flat-palm his podium endlessly at the last debate, I couldn’t help but notice the schizophrenia – or emotional instability, choose your illness – that exists in the rhetoric. For one cannot simultaneously purport to “spread freedom and liberty” while preventing one’s own citizens from exercising the very fundamental freedom of controlling what happens with one’s own body. As for pretending to be a president who “doesn’t want to tell people how to live their lives,” how else does one characterize a constitutional amendment that does just that? The icing on the cake, of course, is the constant hailing of Jesus, God and religion as the guiding force in all (Republican) matters. It makes me want to book one-way tickets for my whole family to Canada.
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