Fear and Loathing
To look at the conservative wing of American politics today is to see a group of people obsessed with the concept of denial. In the past year alone, Republicans have argued against the fair and equal distribution of the following: equal rights for people of color, equal access to healthcare and salaries for women, citizenship status for immigrants and children, marriage rights for gays and lesbians, economic safety nets for all but gigantic multi-national corporations, freedom of religion for all but the most fundamental arm of the Christian faith, and voting rights for any group unwilling to kneel before the GOP party line. Read the rest of this entry »