Reply #41: Perry , the Dominionists and the GOP [View All]

[will_in_chicago]

I called into http://www.thejefffariasshow.com">The Jeff Farias Show this afternoon and said that the decision by the Board of Education was essentially a gift to the Dominionists. If Thomas Jefferson can be taken out of the textbooks, who else is next. I also wonder if the effort to take the word democracy out of the books is part of a larger agenda. I see more conservatives saying that we are not a democracy but a constitutional republic, and equating democracy with mob rule. We know that Ronald Reagan tarred the word liberal in the minds of many, and that Glenn Beck is targeting the word progressive. Is the word "democracy" the next target of the Far Right in our country?

I am determined to oppose such efforts. Too many good men and women have struggled, marched, fought and died for us to lose our democratic rights to the agenda of a few who seem content to serve corporations and a particularly interpretation of a religious faith.

Let us hope that there is a lot of push back and that Bill White can bring Texas back from the edge.