Ok, so just off the top of my head...
I do not find these things "right" about what is going on in the political "right", supported by the "Christian Right"...
Deliberately Lying and Misleading American citizens regarding this administration's policies and our President... about Medicare, Medicaid, "Welfare" and employment figures most recently...
Using Scare Tactics to instill fear over false claims regarding our President with labels like "socialism",
"muslim" and "unnatural" citizen...
Re-districting and Suppressing Voters actively and intentionally to favor one party while disenfranchising innocent voting citizens over false claims of wide-spread voter fraud...
Making claims of "Class warfare" now, when people have finally called it what it is after decades of silently being fiscally slaughtered...
Favoring the Wealthy over the Poor and Middle Class consistently, relentlessly, ruthlessly and persistently for 32 years, while claiming still that this "trickle down" thing works...
Blaming the President for the plight on the economy that the LAST ADMINISTRATION manufactured through de-regulation, two wars and favoring corporations over the people of the nation...
Claiming they want less government control over people's lives, unless we are talking about legislating women's own bodies, love between two consenting adults and the rights to exploit workers overseas while denying our own people jobs - THEN they want more government control...
Screaming over demands for equal taxation and representation that should be in place regarding corporations and wealthy individuals paying their taxes, ironically while being the ONLY ones truly represented by this nation's government and LEAST taxed today...
Straining at the gnats of individual fraud regarding public assistance, when the true Welfare Fraud is the government support of corporations in this "free market" system, which is a much greater percentage of our national budget and should not be given if it is truly a "free" market with less government control...
calling it "welfare" regarding poor individuals and families, and "entitlements" (aptly put) for the wealthy and powerful...
Scapegoating "illegal" immigrants, gay and lesbian citizens and anyone else who does not think (I use the term loosely) like they do... as the ENEMY and REASON for the nation's woes, much like the Nazi's did with SO MANY...
Claiming they love DEMOCRACY, when it is limitless, unchecked and unregulated GREED in Laissez Faire Capitalism they love, as exhibited in their practices of oligarchic control over the nation and the exclusion of voters, lack of representation of the poorest citizens and an economic system designed to allow the wealthy and powerful to stay that way on the backs of the poor and powerless...
Finally, wanting desperately to go back to the practices that got the NATION into this mess, because while the NATION has suffered in it, some INDIVIDUALS and CORPORATIONS have made out like bandits because of it... their lack of concern for the WHOLE NATION and PEOPLE for the sake of their own, short term and immense financial gain is disturbing...
Power, Prestige and Wealth are the Unholy Trinity of gods in America...
Devotion to them, while giving lip service to Jesus and Democracy has brought us to Idolatry and
Tyranny... and MANY are devoted to them...
Greed is not only our SIN, but our horrible National Treasure and Legacy to our own children and
the world around us...
Where is the political "right" in that?
Where is the CHRIST in that?
Where are YOU in that?
Pastor Jamie
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