Coming to Terms

Today is a rough day. I'm coming to terms with the fact that I live in a country where I don't think the way the majority of people do.

Obama was elected president yesterday. It absolutely boggles my mind that anyone with two active brain cells could vote for him. All you have to do is look at who he associates with (Ayers, Wright and his hate-mongering racist church, Rezko, etc.) and the things he says ("spread the wealth", bankrupting the coal industry, the Constitution is "in the way"), coupled with his extreme left voting record (support for partial-birth abortion, voting against funding for babies who survive after an abortion) and utter lack of experience, and anyone with enough of a brain stem to draw breath can see that he is the wrong person for president.

Yet we elected him.

I figure it boils down to two types of vote. The first is the vote from minorities who will vote for a minority candidate no matter what because all that matters to them is skin color. They couldn't care less about what he says, how he votes, what he stands for, and who he befriends, they just want a minority in office.

The second vote is from the people who don't understand how wars are fought and how economies work, who have worked themselves into a lather of baseless hatred toward the current administration, and then get taken in by a cult of personality who promises "change" and "hope". They don't care about the fact that "change" and "hope" are never defined, as a matter of fact they don't care about anything he says, because he's good looking, is a great speaker, has a great smile - and he isn't a member of the current president's party.

And in reality, there is a third vote, although I don't think it's necessarily a major bloc. It's the jealousy vote. You can read my previous blogs for a more full explanation, but basically it boils down to "I don't have everything I want, somebody else does, they should have to give me some of what they got even though they earned it and I didn't, and Obama's gonna make them do it!"

None of these voting blocs cares about the issues or the facts. None of these voting blocs researches a candidate and makes an informed vote. All of these voting blocs are uneducated knee-jerk voters - the worst possible way of voting.

In the mean time, a friend sent me a link to a Mike Huckaby interview of Bill Maher regarding Maher's new movie about religion. While the interview was pretty civil, Maher did get in his arrogant, elitist jabs about religion being a bunch of myths, that western Europe has "grown up" and thrown religion away, why would a loving God allow suffering, blah blah blah. After I watched the interview, I read some of the comments left by other viewers, and it saddened me to the core. Almost all of them were along the lines of "religion is for the weak", it's just a bunch of silly stories, on and on.

Everything I believe in... everything I stand for... everything by which I define myself... It's all under attack. Whether it's what I believe is right for America or my religious beliefs, it's all being villified, looked down on, ridiculed, dismissed, dishonored, and disrespected.

So this is what it was like to live in Rome as the empire crumbled...