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The first of a weekly series. John, main character of the show Born Again Yesterday, has decided to do a vlog tracking his progress recovering from being raised fundamentalist.
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That the current fiscal crisis is a direct result of the fundamental principles of our economic system is undeniable at this point. One aspect, regulation, is examined in this interview by Bill Moyers. What interests me, as usual, is the presence of religious habits in the general political sphere.
Fact: Timothy Geithner is a tax evader.
Fact: Geithner was responsible for regulating the financial system during the last several years.
Fact: Geithner is directly responsible for the problem, though of course he’s not alone in this.
Fact : President Obama chose Geithner to be Secretary of the Treasury and correct the problem he’s partly responsible for.
So here’s the question. Do those of us who voted for Obama have the balls to demand that he begin behaving in a manner consistent with a President who is acting in the best interests of his constituency? Or are we going to be religious about the issue and maintain that “he’s doing his best” exactly as Bush’s supporters did and do to this day?
Or maybe, just maybe, President Obama is already acting in the best interests of his constituency. This is my suspicion. Nothing he has done makes me think otherwise.
So I have two choices, as always. Religion on the one hand, requiring that I accept a worldview which is inconsistent with any observable reality. Integrity on the other hand, requiring me to open my eyes and my mouth and say what I see.
I choose integrity.
By the way, this isn’t about “giving him time” at all. It’s about being honest about what he’s doing. He’s acting in the best interests of the wealthy and in the worst interests of the taxpayer. Just like most every other politician. There was a better option in Kucinich, but Democrats followed their leaders and voted as instructed, leaving the only trustworthy candidate behind. We screwed up. Let’s have the integrity to admit it.
Barefoot Bum says it well, as usual.
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This is where religion takes us. Religion kills critical thinking. Religion trains us to relabel that which we want to align ourselves with. Religion trains us to call things that aren’t as if they were.
Like calling Obama progressive when he isn’t.
Sigh.
I’m a little frustrated. Annoyed. Exasperated.
What’s most amusing is that he is openly conservative, openly anti-progressive, openly pro-war, openly anti-gay-rights, openly pro-”free-market”, openly pro-wall-street and openly uncaring of the middle and lower classes.
And yet he’s the messiah.
It’s good that we have such an excellent example of how far we’ve come in terms of white-black relations. But come on. No Latino, Asian or Polynesian would have gotten this far. No atheist, agnostic or humanist would have. Certainly no gay person would have.
We’re still racist, we’re still bigoted, we’re still not fixed.
I do get tired of people acting like it’s all rainbows and lollipops.
More “up” posts to come later in the week.
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