Live from God's Waiting Room

                                                          Live from God's Waiting Room

This, word for word, is excerpted  from a letter that ran in the Villages Daily Sun on Tuesday, March 13.

".........Our country's fear factor will be eliminated, making us into subservient, mindless needy people, but everybody will be happy and all go to food stamp heaven. You see, our President is beholden (sic) to Planned Parenthood and you should be too, he says.  Proudly, he promotes Planned Parenthood, which introduced inappropriate sexual deviant behavior to our schoolchildren to get us prepared for a new Earth and a new heaven where there will be no separation of Church and State....."

                You can't make up shit like this!  This is, admittedly a wing nut with several threads badly damaged, but it speaks to the absolute dearth of logic, reason and sanity being shown by some  modern Conservatives. William F. Buckley , with whom I almost always disagreed, is surely spinning in his grave over this piece of brain dead blathering.  Classifying family planning as "inappropriate, sexual deviant behavior" is  Limbaugh/Palin/Santorum  worthy. Most residents here East of Eden are not even close to this level of lunacy, but every once in a while, while perusing the morning paper, you get one, like this drivel,  that makes you flush your sinuses with coffee. 
      It's also worthy of note that there are absolutely no counterbalancing even Centrist columnists represented. The usual weekly fare includes several minor conservatives, plus Oliver North and Ann Coulter. Many of the good people here (of which there are many) simply don't use critical thinking skills to evaluate current issues; and it's not their fault. They were never taught to think critically. Being raised in the 50s, individual thought was stifled  (see McCarthy, Joseph).  Many are of a generation which voted like their parents, went off to war like good little boys, and came home to live the American dream with a company they would work for for 40 years and retire. Vietnam drove the wedge even deeper, and most supporters of that debacle don't seem aware that most of the principal architects of that war later acknowledged that it was a hideous mistake (see Robert Macnamara's "The Fog of War")
      It'll be interesting to watch the political currents  here as the demographic continues to change. Already, there are signs of change; in the Christmas parade, there was a float for the Gay and Lesbian club, which ten years ago would likely have been stoned (or some other archaic  Mid-eastern form of righteous wrath). In fact, ten years ago here in The Villages, most homosexuals closeted themselves as a social necessity. This year there was enthusiastic applause. I got several very positive responses to a letter to the editor I actually got published.     
     It's a slow process, but hope springs eternal that "Someday all God's children, Liberal and Conservative, traditional and alternative, hard rock and Barry Manilow can find sufficient  mutual consideration to  talk with, rather than yell at ,  each other" (the previous sentence draws from both Dr. King and Richard Nixon, as I am an equal opportunity kind of guy. And I do believe that's all I have to say about that (for now)