By: George Feigley,
Cofounder
Just when I thought I'd heard about all the ridiculous stuff about
Republicans, along came the evolution poll. It revealed that
2 out of 3 Republicans don't accept evolution! Maybe they trust
the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny and angels with feathery white
wings and halos.
My first reaction to such backwardness was to think it was just another hilarious detail of the Republican mind. My second thought was, "no, that's not funny, that's dangerous!" with such a large part of the population deluded, we have a real problem, a kind of intentional blindness. Of course, the developing world is delighted that we're deluded. Being rational and realistic, they're gaining on us all the time. Truth and reason will soon surpass Republican superstition. Given time, religious nonsense always falls to science, check with Galileo or Kepler. What's a much greater concern for America is the Republican rejection of reality. To succeed as a person or as a people, we need accurate understandings of what's happening in the real world around us. (Not just what we wish were going on.) The more blind, deaf and senseless we make ourselves, the less accurately we can respond. Where a country is guided by superstition instead of reality it is doomed to a trail of mistakes. The Republican evolution delusion is important only in that it explains why other nations have rapidly surpassed us in scientific developments. The broader Republican addiction to superstition, or really, their rejection of reality is a great political and social danger.
I think that Republicans don't like reality, they can't cope with change. It makes them insecure. It threatens them. It scares them. They simply reject it. They pretend that reality isn't there. In other words, the majority of Republicans, two thirds of them, are simply mentally ill. Rejection of reality is, after all, schizophrenia, a very serious psychosis. No, it's not true that most Republicans are nuts, nor even that they're evil. It's that they possess significant elements of mental abrasion and of the diabolical. I don't know if anything can be done to correct it. Frankly, given the American experience of the past decade, I've come to believe that it will be fatal to us. The airways and cable are crowded with Republican delusion and hatred. One extremist, Glenn Beck, preaches rejection of energy efficient lighting because it can't possibly cure the global warming danger. He also preaches against universal healthcare because, (a) it will make the population healthier and (a) it will cost money. The Becks love money. They worship money over health, property over persons. It's part of the diabolical Republican delusion. Another Republican preaches against feeding the poor because some of them get fat. A third preaches that Parkinson's disease is a fake intended to garner sympathy for the victim. A fourth preaches against educating "illegal" aliens. He believes in the barefoot and pregnant doctrine of depriving persons and holding them down. Normal persons have to wonder in what reality these Republicans live. I've come to the conclusion that the Republican rejection of cooperation and their addiction to conflict is a fatal malady; hampsters eating their young. I can't see a way for the country to survive Republicans. Pretty quickly, the blind driver runs off a cliff.
"I'm trusting in the Lord
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The crackpot Bush ignored reality to start the Iraq war. That
was based mostly on delusion and religious superstition.
(Christianity will kill you if you don't watch out.) As a result
of that delusion, a country was destroyed and hundreds of thousands
of persons died. The same crackpot and his superstitious
Republican congregation were deluded about stem cells and global
warming and alternative energy sources and helping citizens.
As a result, hundreds of thousands of persons died. They are
a party of hurters and haters.