Spencer Tracy recited these lines in the 1960 movie Inherit The Wind.
Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we’ll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!
Of course he was talking about evolution in a movie loosely based on the so called Scopes Monkey Trial but he could have been talking about the current state of politics in America. The favored hark and cry of the Tea Party supporters is some variation on “We want to take America back.”
Back To Where?
“We want to take America back.” Back to where? Or is it back from where? Who has it that shouldn’t? Or is it the whole progress thing? Listening to the candidates, it seems that the new conservative movement wants to take us back to a time where women and minorities knew their place. Back to a time where only land owners could vote. Back to a time where the poor were left to die and only the wealthy had health care. Back to a time “when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind.”
VOTE!
The madness has to stop. Where are we in this country when followers of a candidate are wearing uniforms? When private security guards are arresting reporters? Where political candidates are discussing revolution as a viable option. Armed insurrection against the government of the United States of America as a political option? And why? Because they lost an election two years ago?
Please get out and vote. I really don’t care if you vote Democrat or Republican. Just don’t vote for the lunatic fringe. And don’t vote for anyone these people represent.
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- Nope. Nothing racist here.
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- Really this is perhaps the saddest of them all.
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- Fox News. Number one source of infro-mation.
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- This moran needs a brain.
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- Dipers?
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- Asian Kids hate your Grandma.
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- And are speelings.
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- Therefore Obama is British and…Uhmm…Look! Hotdogs!
October 29th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
“I want my country back”
“Who took it from you?”
“The elites!”
“And who are the elites?”
“The people who took my country!”
You can’t win, can even move that kind of logic.
Nice post.
Regards,
Doug