In looking over some of the threads this morning I can already see the gnashing and wailing of the paranoid right expressing their delusions of all the disasters now being hatched by Liberals to destroy them.
This mental illness is of course the result of years and years of brainwashing in churches and homes, particularly in the defeated south and undereducated rural areas, places of traditional insularity, but certainly not confined there. The bogeyman has become President.
We know that one of the ways paranoia can be treated is by confronting ones fears, finding out from direct contact the delusional nature of fear. Similarly, in large metropolitan areas of mixed races with successful businesses and plentiful jobs, the bigotry of racism can't survive. One sees all around people there are good and bad people of all kinds.
So have we crossed a water mark in the tide of history? Is the insularity, bigotry, hate and fear of the right about to die. Will we see that all the garbage that has been pumped in their head is insane as we awaken from this nightmare, or will we stay frozen in time?
I think we can because I bet on hope. The natural state of human beings is to love. It is why the young are so inspired by Obama. They haven't yet fully died. Can we join them?
I suggest that we try.
This mental illness is of course the result of years and years of brainwashing in churches and homes, particularly in the defeated south and undereducated rural areas, places of traditional insularity, but certainly not confined there. The bogeyman has become President.
We know that one of the ways paranoia can be treated is by confronting ones fears, finding out from direct contact the delusional nature of fear. Similarly, in large metropolitan areas of mixed races with successful businesses and plentiful jobs, the bigotry of racism can't survive. One sees all around people there are good and bad people of all kinds.
So have we crossed a water mark in the tide of history? Is the insularity, bigotry, hate and fear of the right about to die. Will we see that all the garbage that has been pumped in their head is insane as we awaken from this nightmare, or will we stay frozen in time?
I think we can because I bet on hope. The natural state of human beings is to love. It is why the young are so inspired by Obama. They haven't yet fully died. Can we join them?
I suggest that we try.