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| English: Official portrait of US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Marco Rubio spoke at CPAC Thursday and among the other misinformed things he had to say was this, “We don’t need a new idea. There is an idea. The idea is called America.”
He actually stumbled into being right in the wrong way. America is the idea. And America chose Barack Obama legally, by a vote of a majority of Americans. That’s the idea that was formed two centuries ago.
But conservatives don’t agree with a majority of Americans. They don’t believe in the ideas of America which was to establish a government aimed at equality for all people, a voice for all people and a government for, by and of the people assembled legally within our borders.
Those ideas have twice now resulted in a government led by Barack Obama. They don’t like that. And in their infinite wisdom handed down by a magician in the sky no one has ever seen and no science has ever revealed, they have decided the majority is wrong. They have decided the idea of America is wrong.
They have an idea that says money is more important than votes. They believe religion is more important than equality for all. They believe a lot of things that are good for a few but bad for the many.
So they get together in Maryland and plot and scheme on how to cheat, steal, lie and outright deprive the rest of us from the true ideas of America. They concoct ways to rob the low of their vote because when the low vote, the mighty suffer. Republicans represent the mighty and so they sue to classify corporations as citizens, giving them undue power. They gerrymander districts and scheme plans to keep minorities and the elderly away from the polls. They seek to destroy every institution that battles in defense of their enemies. They funnel money into propaganda organizations to distort the facts. These are the ideas of America? Of course not. And in fact, a close inspection of how Republicans are operating today has much more in common with the National Socialist Party of Germany.
I find this funny, and dangerous because Republicans are quick to compare Obama to Hitler. However, I say again Hitler was out of step with the majority and schemed to use the government legally to put himself in power. He never would have gained power without the financial backing of the largest German corporations.
But to them, these are perfectly justified, because they are working in the service of God and righteousness. And in that service, isn’t any thing fair? Maybe, but it’s not American
