Reply #84: Yeah, it is rather harsh. But it's also DESERVED. [View All]

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What's really harsh, the harshest of all, is what their apathy or laziness or indifference or detachment has done to this country. To more than SEVENTEEN HUNDRED families mourning the needless loss of a loved one who was sacrificed in Iraq - a war of LIES. To the women who WILL bleed to death because the Supreme Court is about to be packed with another knuckle-dragging zealot. To the babies who WILL be killed - because their mothers were forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, and then dumped the still-unwanted newborn in some dumpster. To all our children, our elderly, and everyone else who - from time to time - enjoys breathing clean air, walking on clean unpoisoned earth, drinking unpolluted water, and eating uncontaminated food. To all those who will die because they couldn't afford life-saving medical (OR prenatal) care. To all those who will suffer needlessly because stem cell research was foolishly hamstrung by religious fanatics. To America's future as a leader in research and technology, because the science-phobes among the religious wackos would rather take their scientific facts from the Bible than from impartial and secular research, causing a brain-drain that sends our best and brightest to other countries where the word "science" isn't the suffix attached to the word "junk."

I could go on.

But really, it's MIGHTILY difficult to cut these people much slack. If they'd paid attention, if they'd bothered to look beyond the spin and the GOP talking points and the Pox "news" bullshit, if they'd bothered to do ANY critical thinking at all, we would not be in this fix, because the election wouldn't have been close enough to steal.