Liberals at Daily Kos See Chile Mine Rescue as Just More Grist for Stimulus Spending, 'Cap and Trade'
Naturally, the rejoicing over the surfacing Chilean miners can't just be a human triumph. At the Daily Kos, it's just another excuse for “Yomamaforobama” to unfurl a utopian laundry list of liberal dreams:
This is the ultimate example of humanity racing to better and save its own. This is what is so sorely missing from our everyday lives. No wonder that, when the forces of good and cooperation coalesce, we are so spiritually and morally exalted. Unfortunately, we see this altruism and coming together surface too often only after a disaster has occurred, i.e. 9/11, the Haiti earthquake, the Wall Street almost-meltdown, etc. Other areas that are screaming for our attention, in advance of a possible calamity, are basic human rights, equality in justice, infrastructure renovations, climate control, health care availability/coverage and education upgrades.
The biggest obstacles to the enactment of this list are the punishing theists of the Republican Party:
In the place of offering equal economic and social benefits, the GOP offers God. I have mentioned before that, when all viable options have been exhausted, when the powers-that-be decide not to spend the money to right things, i.e. New Orleans during and after Katrina, the famous tag line is "It is in God’s hands." And as long as the deity’s name is evoked, the people fall for that excuse every single time, as if they doth protest, the hand of their God would come down and wipe them off of the face of the earth.
But the GOP has done something even more evil. They have allowed their vision of God to encompass a restrictive nature, a bigoted and prejudicial side, as if to throw the masses a bone on which to take out their anger. The Republican God detests homosexuals, despite the fact that we are all human beings. The right-wingers imbue their God with a nasty aura so that their electorate can feel safe and redeemed by having a group lower than them on which to spout their venom. Hey, to kick around someone different from you certainly beats having the voters retaliate against the politicos. The Republicans will hoard all the bucks they can for themselves and the rest of the top 2% of wealthy Americans and as for the rest of us, we get a God who allows us to harm, maim and destroy our fellow human beings.
Childhood poetry was even applied to this lecture:
This is the polar opposite of what happened in Chile. Can we learn from the positive process that brought this successful outcome in South America? Don’t hold your breath. My mother used to recite this little poem to me when I was a young child:
Little fly upon the wall
Ain’t ya’ got no home at all?
Ain’t ya’ got no Mother?
Ain’t ya’ got no Father?
Squish fly, go to God.
God should not be “selective” or “antagonistic” in judging the hearts of men. God should be a liberal:
A caring, compassionate God can be a beneficial impetus to the future of humanity. A selective, antagonistic God will only add to our misery, especially when that principle is used as an excuse for us to not use our own willpower, talents and compassion for the greater good. To use the concept of God to limit our own potential is the ultimate surrender.
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I worked in Manhattan during 911
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 11:18pm.
You're talking about what a grande time it would be if only we worked together as one?
What a dumb piece of crap!
Unfortunately, we see this
Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 11:21pm.
Odd that he didn't mention the Gulf Oil Spill... Oh yeah, Obama mislead and ignored that one. Hmmm. Maybe Obama'smama oughta rethink it's support, huh?
And just where does Yomamaforobama think the money for all this
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 1:59am.
...is going to come from? Shangri-La perhaps? -DaveVote for the American in November
Strange that it was a
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 7:26am.
Strange that it was a conservative (dare I say) republican President of Chile who put together all the instruments necessary to save these brave miners, and who rallied the world to that end. It was his conservative faith and the faith of these miners that gave hope in dark times. That kostard doesn't see the millions of daily acts of kindness perforned by christians on a daily basis (or rather he would call their daily acts theocratic knucklecrawling redneck, yada, yada, yada).
I salute the Chileans and those Americans, British, Israelis who brought their technical skills and faith to sustain and save these miners. I am also wondering why NASA can't market its nutritional high calorie liquid drink? After all it seems like a product made for America and the world and might actually reduce the Obamacreated strangulating deficit.
I'm just asking
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 8:32am.
And who amongst us praises the god (small 'g') who hates, detests, and kicks around tobacco users, gun owners, business owners, homeowners, oilmen, the 'wealthy', conservatives, hunters, fishermen, etc.?
Creating God
Submitted by KC Mulville on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 8:39am.
A liberal God could be beneficial to humanity. Yeah, I'll bet he would.
This is a person who has nothing against using opiate for the masses. He just wants the opiate to be more useful to liberals.