of whoring themselves out to the Teabaggers, who are effectively the unholy (pun intended) alliance of the Moral Majority and the John Birch Society. Before that, they were known as the Ku Klux Klan (particularly the 1920's incarnation); before that, the Confederate States of America. While they will never be a large enough voting bloc to swing an election by their own dint, they certainly beef up the tally in favor of the party who courts them. And that is the purpose they serve to what remains of the core republican'ts, who are concerned primarily with rigging the financial infrastructure in their favor and fattening their coffers with kickbacks from the military-industrial complex. I am convinced this is the only genuine motivation for their Vince Lombardi attitude towards civic duty. Everything else they spew about patriotism, fiscal responsibility, and morality proves by the consistency of their own behavior to be empty blather aimed to harvest votes from the aforementioned lineage of willfully ignorant reactionaries.
I agree that we can only be the change we want to see. Our silence is indeed as much an endorsement of their agenda as anything muttered on the campaign trail. The MSM is not an ally of progress, regardless of what Faux News might have us believe. No matter what happens, as long as there is a U.S.A., there will always be cowardly white men who fantasize about an idyllic "good ol' days" of patriarchy that never really existed. And they will always be shooting their mouths off. And there will always be a political faction bent on exploiting their misguided disenfranchisement. And as a result, women, minorities, immigrants, the LGBT community, the unemployed, and the otherwise disadvantaged will remain acceptable collateral damage. It is up to these targeted groups and their friends to own their potential to make the difference.
It seems like every presidential election cycle gets hyped as "the most important election of our lifetime". And while that may be somewhat hyperbolic, it's hard not to notice how extreme the union of Wall Street and Civil War re-enactors has taken the vitriol. And whether or not it's just shameless pandering, if we stand mute, the results are poised to be dire for anyone who is not a doughy rich white male.
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