I am afraid of the America my kids will grow up In. I am worried that it harbors the wolves of discrimination and bigots in conservative sheep clothing. I have interest in politics and have been watching everything closely this year. I am not a Fox news fan but I do watch it to see both sides. I believe it is fair to say that Fox News caters to conservative America. I decided to watch the Huckabee Presidential Forum. I really enjoyed watching the candidates sit and talk about their stand and what issues they hold close to. The major points where Family and promoting the Conservative Republican agenda. I felt the echo of theocracy more than democracy.
I believe strongly in Democracy. A form of government in which its citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives is what democracy is to me. In an idyllic world, Democracy includes equal participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law. I cherish the freedoms I have as an American. One of the freedoms I cherish most is freedom to practice my religion without persecution. I believe when one religion loses its freedom, whether I agree with their practices or not, worries me. America is a very diverse country and the religions that are practiced here are no different.
I personally consider myself a Christian. I raise my kids in a deep belief in God. My children read the bible every night, and I am proud of them for it. What I teach them is to treat others like they want to be treated. I teach them that you need to live by example. What I mean when I say live by example is not being a bigot, discriminating or spreading hate toward others just because they don’t agree with you. I also am aware that Christians don’t all have the same unilateral beliefs. I am not sure if candidates like Rick Perry are aware that to fairly represent this country you have to represent all of it.
The candidates seem to in general to portray themselves as the voice of a very conservative Christian America. They often state very clearly they want to give government less control in the laws on individual states unless it goes against their personal religious beliefs. I found this to be very contradictory. I don’t want to live in a country where human right violations are running rampant. That only one religion has the right to worship or pray in public places. I believe if the candidates said, “I want America to be a country where all Muslim can pray and worship at school. They can break out the Koran at their senior graduation and read from it. We as a country need to go back to our basic Muslim American Values.” If candidates said these things there would be uproar, and rightly so. You cannot fight for one religion to have freedom to worship and ignore others, because they don’t fit in your personal agenda.
We are a diverse country. We need to govern in a diverse matter. We aren’t all Christians. CNN recently did a report saying that less than 50 percent of Americans are Christian. Are we supposed to deny another their rights because they are the wrong religion? Are we supposed to adapt the religious views of our President whether he is Mormon, Catholic, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Jewish or Muslim?
We have to ask ourselves how constitutional is it to impose our personal religious beliefs on every American? We constantly berate and belittle countries where religious beliefs rule 100% of their political policies. I refuse to believe that we all must fit one mode. That America has come down to a true war on religions that aren’t Christian.
My fear is that we will start a war on non-Christians. I am scared for my children and their future like many Americans. I don’t want our country to turn into 1981 by George Orwell. A land of theocracy with pervasive government surveillance and incessant public mind control all accomplished with a political system administrated by a privileged Inner Party elites.
We have to ask ourselves what we as American People really want. I want the civil rights of every American to be honored. We have tough road ahead and no one is concerned for our journey. I believe this is a time to come together and really be bi-partisan to fix what is broken. We can’t be a great country divided by discrimination and self-serving theocracy politics. We are a nation of many races, religions and backgrounds which is our nation’s greatest strength, but it has to be united.
Abraham Lincoln said Democracy is a “government of the people by the people for the people” Our politics need to allow all citizens to experience the freedoms guaranteed in the constitution no matter how diverse they are.
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Parents can try their hardest to instill good values in children; but there are so many variables that help play into the direction an individual takes in life.
ReplyDeleteI've often believed the biggest fear for a parent is the "friends" a child attaches themselves to in school.
If it's the wrong crowd a child may feel peer pressured into leading a life of trouble; but if parents discourage the friendship that sets up that rebellion mentality.