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There is no argument of the fact that in general, the Republican Party is anti Labor Union, while the Democratic Party is pro Labor Union. So why are so many members of labor unions anti Democrat?
This is very simple. Most members of labor unions are “Blue Collar folk”. Most blue-collar folk hate fags.
Our national hatred of gay people is that powerful. So powerful that when many labor union members are faced with the choice: Do I vote for the party that is trying to help me to better provide for my family? Or do I vote for the party that hates fags as much as I do? They actually feel morally compelled to vote Republican. A moral compulsion to promote hatred… Twisted, ain’t it? But that is the reality of our nations dedication to bigotry. Socially accepted, organized bigotry. Bigotry that takes priority over how well a person can provide for their family. God bless America.
Speaking of God… I’m a big fan of God. I believe in a much bigger God than those self-righteous right-winger do. My God is bigger and Godder than theirs, because my God does not hate fags! My God has no hate. Hatred is a moral sickness. And if anyone is morally sick, it is certainly not God.
I was at work with some right-wing redneck types during a time when the issue of gay marriage was making a lot of headlines. These guys that I worked with were very macho. Contemporary “slap that bitch fuck that ho” macho. Before gay marriage was in the news, not one of these ignorant, bitch slappin’, ho fuckin’ simpletons would have ever been caught dead, uttering a pansy ass phrase like: “The sanctity of marriage” But what do know? There they were, spouting off “the sanctity of marriage” this and “the sanctity of marriage” that. Didn’t matter to them. They’d commit to putting on an apron and washing the dishes and vacuuming the house everyday for the rest of their lives if it meant that they got to actually write their hatred of fags into the constitution. They were drooling at the mouth. Giddy like schoolgirls. Because socially accepted bigotry is all fine and dandy. But now we have a chance to have Federal Law enforcing the hatred of an entire group people who we consider to be less human than us.
God Bless America! Have you heard the most popular statement against gay marriage? Not sure if it’s actually the most popular, but it’s the one that I’ve heard the most. They love to say that it somehow devalues traditional marriage because it’s the same as granting a legal marriage to a couple of animals. Hmm… That’s a pretty clear dehumanization of an entire group of people. A lot like the way that the Nazi’s dehumanized the German’s perception of Jewish people. That movement was very successful at convincing the masses, that the members of an entire group of people were actually not valid people, deserving of human rights. So what is the difference between that and what’s going on now? Is it that gay people actually are less than human? One thing that I’m sure of…Every gay person that I know is in every way morally superior to and more human than any asshole who would carry a sign that reads “God Hates Fags”.

The Point

Many years ago, Chris Mortensen gave me a J. Krishnamurti book. As I recall, I only read bits of it at a time. Honestly, I can remember very little of what I read. But there is one bit of it which has always stood out in my mind. He wrote about the futility of ideologies. So clearly and logically, he presented and validated this concept, which he encapsulated with the statement that "all ideologies are idiotic". Since then, there have been many significant points in our recent history, at which that profound phrase has come into my mind.
We have reached an other one of those points.

As a global society, we have filled this world with problems. Most of the strives toward solutions have created more problems, because so many ideal solutions to the same problem are in such sharp contrast to one and other. This has gone on for so long that all of the original problems are forgotten. We now drift aimlessly, through the vast debris fields of problems that were spawned by the ideologies of the worlds most powerful idiots.

To get rid of both the ideologies and the idiots would solve most of the worlds problems, immediately. But of coarse, that scenario is idealistic. Not realistic. And my whole point is the historically proven fact that real solutions to real problems have to be about what is realistic. Because an idealistic attempt at solving the problem will not only fail to solve the problem, but also create a three fold of new problems. The more you think about it, the more you realize, that ideology is the great enemy of the global society.

So, if we can't get rid of the ideologies and the idiots, I guess we have to pick one to work on first. It's my thought, that the more we manage to reel in the ideologies, the more idiots will fall out of power. So let's attack the giant at the knees.

At this point I want to disclose the fact that politically, I am a "Lefty". It seems very difficult to logically dispute the fact that the greatest forces of conflict and destruction in the word have historically been and presently are at the hands of the idealists in far Right Wing of various nations. That said, I want to make it very clear that I find the Left Wing to be equally as guilty of idealistic idiocy as the Right. And have in too many cases, been as much of a hindrance to progress as those on the Right. The recently failed, so called "Bi-Partisan Immigration Bill" is a perfect example of both sides being guilty of putting idealism ahead of realism. Once again, both the Left and Right have allowed ideology to conquer progress.

My use of the word progress, brings us to the other end of the point. Real solutions are rarely arrived at in a single step. Just as a movie is built from a series of scenes. A solutions is often built from a series of progressive steps. And no. I'm not talking about Iraq. Not much of that mess is in any way progressive.

The sort of thing that I am talking about is the time that I saw Gay's protesting against Bill Clinton, after "Don't ask. Don't tell" happened. I saw a big picture of Bill, with the word LIAR in bold across it, marching down a Gay parade. Yes. "Don't ask. Don't tell" fell far far short of the level dignity that Bill Clinton had hoped to give to Gay's in the Armed Forces. But it was the most that the Republican congress would let him do. So he did something! He made progress on that issue. Yes. Only a baby step. But progress toward social evolution. He moved us an inch further away from our nation's core of socially accepted bigotry. Perhaps those who protested him would have preferred him to be an idealist rather than a realist. Perhaps they'd prefer that he had stuck to his guns with a measure that Congress would not have passed. Perhaps these idealists would have been happier to see him accomplish nothing. Fortunately for the realistic members of the progressive population, these idealists failed to shoot themselves in the foot.

This is one example of idiotic ideology on the Left. And I really don't need to get much into examples from the Right. The fact that most wars are fought over religious differences speaks enough to that.