Since the republicans in the U.S. House of Clowns (representatives) voted to starve poor people even more yesterday by cutting the already inadequate food stamp budget, while falsely claiming “Christian values” as their reasoning, I was appalled enough to sarcastically call them the Anti-Christ in the title. I’m not literally saying they are the Anti-Christ, as I think religion belongs separate from politics, but these lying, deceitful, thieving, scum of the earth politicians elected to the U.S. congress – the republicans- who voted near unanimously yesterday against the most vulnerable in our society, continually fake God and morals as their righteous ideology, give me little choice.
It is time that progressives, liberals, human right’s activist, civil right’s activist, advocates for the poor, anti-war activist, other defenders of the less fortunate, and the average person in our society, stop letting these hypocrites use people’s faith and religion in such a foul and perverted way, to manipulate all good hearted Americans of any faith into thinking that their political agenda gives even a remote shit about the welfare of the people of this country and the rest of the world.
What is especially sickening is that most of these republican politicians and leaders have used the banner of Christianity to sell their radical agenda of social Darwinism to the American people, and used Christian “morals” as a tool to justify their greed, bigotry and hatred. Divide and conquer, in the name of their sponsors, the uber wealthy and giant corporations and banks.
There has been for a long time and still is, a push of propaganda from the rich and powerful top 1 percent to convince Americans that somehow being poor is a person’s own fault, a character flaw, or the result of sin. Being poor in America now is viewed by many misguided citizens with suspicion. I’ve had conservative friends and family members express an outright hostility at the nerve of fast food workers to ask for 15 dollars an hour. These workers should chose a different job, it’s their own damn fault, they say, as they themselves clip coupons to afford the slave labor produced cheap products they buy in their towns’ big employer of poverty wage workers, Walmart. These same friends and family are often times quick to point out a poor person they know as lazy, addicted to drugs, a con-man, etc. That drug addiction is a disease is not even considered for compassion, as Florida demonstrated by requiring drug tests of recipients of welfare. Pouring exuberant amounts of tax payer funds into imprisoning our friends, neighbors and family members for drug addiction in the war on drugs though, is viewed as tough on crime and morally righteous. These friends and family are a snapshot of an unfortunately large portion of our society, that continue to vote against their own best interest and against the interest of humanity in general. They have been fooled, duped, mis-lead, lied to, manipulated. Most are people of good heart, not all, but probably most. They need the voice of the rest of us to have the courage to tell them to their face that the tea party movement, and the entire republican party is using the name of Jesus to sell a bag of lies for the super rich – the men who in the New Testament, Jesus refers to and is quoted as saying, “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Tell that to ex-pastor Mick Huckabee, from the Bible Belt, who has become a regular mouthpiece for the republican party on the Fox Propaganda Network, a defender of insurance companies over health care for all, such as children with pre-existing conditions. I saw him argue against the ObamaCare’s protection for pre-existing conditions on his show once. Apparently, what he learned as a pastor and Christian preacher was that the preservation of our dysfunctional health insurance system that denies care to the sick for the sole purpose of profit, is much more important than the lives of people. I guess it was just a typo error in the New Testament in instances where Jesus was healing the sick and feeding the poor, that he didn’t ask for their health insurance card or for them to prove they didn’t smoke or drink if they were hungry. I’m sure what is left out of our traditional understanding of the teachings of Jesus is the details on how before and after he helped these people, he warned about the dangers to capitalism if we helped them too much.
Now, in the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, brought on by the con-men of our banking system, republican leaders like Eric Cantor, big nasal-nosed sack of phony shit from Virginia, are blaming the unemployed on their unemployment. He and other republicans in congress want to help the poor and unemployed Americans in this country by teaching them self reliance by starving them. They are now portraying the still unacceptable high unemployment rate brought upon by this Great Recession and exacerbated by their policies, as the fault of the unemployed. They argue we can’t afford to feed the poor like we have been, at the extravagant rate of less than 5 dollars a day – if you qualify by making less than 15 thousand a year. No, these walking epitomes of vile greed and selfishness would have us believe that if we continue to feed the poor, we are making it worse. It’s for the poor’s on good that we must cut out the food assistance. A little hunger will motivate them to get a job, although there is still the mathematical problem of there being 3 job seekers to every 1 job. These same republicans of course, are trying to maintain the much larger tax payer subsidy in the farm bill to the corporate farmers, the government subsidized monopolies like Monsanto that are patenting seeds, and of course the high-fructose corn syrup producers of corporate America.
They have voted to slash the already inadequate food assistance program even further, but to maintain corporate farm subsidies.
Nothing new here, other that the outright cruelty of their disdain for the poor and hungry in this country, and their golden calf worshiping of their corporate sponsors.
But I’m getting really sick of hearing republicans claiming to be the party of Christian values, because they don’t like gays and don’t want them to have the same rights as everyone else, and because they value a fetus much more important than they do a child that is alive and hungry.
I’m getting really sick of hearing republicans talk about their Christian values while they lobby and vote for the health insurance company status quo by trying to sabotage ObamaCare’s implementation into law. I’m getting sick and tired of these scumbags handing over immoral patent rights on life saving and vital medications to the pharmaceutical industries of this country that have bribed their way into monopoly, multi-billion dollar profit status by stealing heavily subsidized citizen, tax payer funded research, and calling it “intellectual property.”
I’m sick of old people, poor people, the middle class, – basically all of us except the super rich 1 percent and their political puppets that make it all possible – having to worry that if we get sick with a bad illness like cancer or any other of many inevitable medical conditions, that we can’t afford the same health care that these politicians enjoy through their superior government healthcare program, on a salary that qualifies them in the top two percent. They have enriched themselves and the powerful, profitable, tax payer subsidized industries they represent. And they are tired of us slaves who work for them wanting the least among us to be fed, and the rest of us to at least enjoy decent health care. These wants and needs of the rest of us are labeled “class warfare.”
These are the people in power that claim the moral authority because of their professed Christianity. They are the exact opposite.
Please, instead of sharing on Facebook some manufactured outrage over the Ten Commandments being removed from a courthouse that prides itself on swift death penalties and imprisons the poor and disenfranchised, or on some bullshit posting about how bad the Muslims are, based on misinformation and lies and propaganda of course. . .. please, share your realization that conservative politics in this country as it currently exists, is the exact opposite of Christianity.
It’s an abomination, and a tragedy that roughly 48 percent of this country don’t even see this reality.
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