Politics and religion – the ugly twin-siblings of irrationality, polarization, advantage-seeking, violence, and destruction – once again drown out and obfuscate all reason, logic and common sense
As soon as the most recent murderous shootings occurred, euphemistically referred to as “gun deaths”, the predictable responses immediately appeared. From the religious right, calls for prayers. From the looney left, immediate calls to ban all guns.
That there are too many guns in the hands of violent, unstable people is indisputable. As is the fact that the political, religiously-driven right isn’t troubled enough by that fact to rethink its refusal to genuinely seek ways to solve the underlying problem that involve effective restrictions and means of enforcing them, so that the unqualified, dangerous, and deranged can’t obtain them.
The left is trapped in its denial that, in addition to the obviously mentally disturbed, there really are bad, psychopathic and sociopathic people intent on committing violence. Because of their immature, emotionally and politically driven agenda, they fail to connect human beings to the inanimate, will-less, weapons with which they cause carnage.
In the wake of a, rarer but nonetheless also occurring, slaughter of people by a deliberate attack using an automobile, I’ve yet to hear the left call for a ban on motor vehicles. Nor have they cried out to ban knives, poison, clubs, explosives, drowning, hands and fists, blunt objects, etc. And the right cannot avoid the fact that firearms are now the overwhelming means used by people.
Certainly, neither side really objects to murder. Both the left and right now enthusiastically support wars and the right is particularly enthusiastic about the death penalty, a form of premeditated murder in itself. All of the preceding of course funded by the American people, whether they endorse state-sanctioned murder and barbarity or not.
So, as is always the case in the US, politics and religion – the ugly twin-siblings of irrationality, polarization, advantage-seeking, violence, and destruction – once again drown out and obfuscate all reason, logic and common sense. It’s also the case with abortion, as will be discussed later.
Neither side acknowledges, considers, or breathes a word about…overpopulation, the underlying factor for humankind’s woes, as its manifestations take various forms, all of which result in the decreasing quality of life, affecting child-rearing, lowering the quality of education, causing environmental destruction, as well as escalating scarcity of resources, etc.
So, along with the glories of religion and its insidious influences, it’s also politics that makes people tragically stupid, hopelessly impotent to think clearly for themselves, and bound to watch helplessly, as one “senseless tragedy” after another afflicts them.
As always, neither the Sky Daddy, his earthly representatives, nor pandering politicians can deliver them from the evil.
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