We Must Think Differently About 2012

There is a very dangerous phenomenon that is going on in the so-called “New Age” and “New Thought” movements….what I call the Cosmic Woo-woos. It is dangerous because we, with our global consciousness, tend to create the reality we expect.

With movies like 2012, documentaries about it on The History Channel, dozens of books, and all of the other hype, we may be creating world-wide cataclysm that does not need to occur.

The whole prophecy thing is a bit “iffy.” There is a myth that the Mayans disappeared. In fact, they still live in Belize, Guatemala, the Honduras, and some states in Mexico.

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/mesoamerica/maya.html. They didn’t just mystically disappear. Their culture, like so many others through history, simply fell for reasons we do not know. But one reason isn’t that all the Mayans were whisked off by a spaceship or travelled through some “door” to another plane. The thousands of Mayans still living, some still speaking their ancient languages and practicing their ancient religious practices (at least in part....) take great offense to the insinuation that they are somehow not “real” Mayans.

Modern day Mayans point out that the Mayan calendar is cyclical. They also point out that it doesn’t end in 2012 as has been popularized. It is, in fact, difficult to tell when it does begin a new cycle. But world-wide cataclysm isn’t part of what the people who should know the Mayan calendar best — the Mayans — have in mind. We come to the end of a year each year, the end of a decade every 10 years, and the end of eons, and the world hasn’t had a cataclysmic ending. It is unlikely to end on December 12^th of 2012, either.

The prophecies by Native Nations are a bit more troubling. But, as one who has heard and discussed those prophecies, there is very little agreement among the Native Nations as to what they truly mean. Do we have a spiritual cleansing, or is the cleansing to come a cleansing of us off the face of the Earth? It completely depends on who you ask.

Nostradamus is often touted as predicting the end of time in 2012. Nostradamus, however, was an oracle. Oracles, as we learn in The Matrix tell you what you need to hear, and often do so with difficult–to-interpret statements. This is surely true of Nostradamus. Only by squeezing the facts of our times into Nostradamus’s quatrains can we say that Nostradamus was any kind of prophet whatsoever. What he writes is incredibly obscure, and subject to a great deal of interpretation.

Believers point to the “flipping of the poles” of the Earth, some predicted nasty Sun activity, the faults that lie all over the Earth, and other factoids to back up their claims. Unfortunately for the true believers, the effect of the Sun’s activity, while it can have nasty effects on the Earth, is unlikely to do so. “The big one” earthquake-wise may well happen any day. A super-volcano under Yellowstone or elsewhere may, indeed, explode. A huge asteroid could hit Earth. A volcano may indeed dump a huge chunk of mountain into the Atlantic or Pacific ocean and wipe out the Eastern or Western Seaboard. And so on.

The fact is that these threats have existed since the dawn of humanity. So far, none of them, even the ones that occurred, wiped out humanity. I do not deny that we might have a very bad day for humanity within our lifetimes. At some point, perhaps tomorrow, humanity will come to an end on Earth, and may not be found elsewhere. Our own stupidity and our absurd belief that war and the force of arms solves anything (with apologies to the new Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama), is far more likely to wipe out humanity, in my opinion, than any natural disaster.

Natural disasters have happened many times. Humanity has survived them. What is true, however, of most of the natural disasters that have occurred through history is that our ancestors didn’t have to endure Wolf Blitzer or John Anderson endlessly replaying clips of dying people and discussing the disaster to death. Lucky ancestors!

2012 is a hype. Could world-ending disaster occur near the end of 2012? Yeah, sure it could. Will it? That is impossible to say. Every age on Earth has believed that they are the last age, or the age when Jesus will return, or the age when the world will end. We’re no more likely to be correct than the people who, when the calendar was about to read January 1, 1001 CE, were. People sold everything and lived it up. Unfortunately for them, but fortunately for us, nothing happened of note on January 1, 1001 CE.

In any event, calendars, Mayan or American, are conventions. There is no cosmic clock that says “This is January 1^st, and the start of a new year.” The Roman New Year was in March (hence the naming of September – December, meaning the 7^th through the 10^th months, rather than the 9^th through the twelfth months, as we have them now). Our calendars are arbitrary, as is our method of keeping time. There simply is no grand significance to a date on the calendar.

But let us say that the “prophecies” have been interpreted correctly and the world is ending at sundown in Mules Breath Montana on December 12, 2012. Oh well. It had to happen sometime. There is nothing cosmically special about us or about the Earth. Maybe it will end then and maybe it won’t, but one thing is for sure. It will end sooner or later.

However, if things are moving toward a cataclysmic end, we who are conscious and truly Spiritual can also turn these things around. Believe that humanity will not have a very bad year in 2012. Focus your consciousness on the positive and optimistic predictions. See December 12, 2012 as just another day.

But it does make sense to prepare oneself for the end. The end for any of us or all of us could come any time at all, with or without Mayan calendars. Preparing our hearts and spirits for the end of our lives, and celebrating the fact that we get to move on to another plane, is vital for all Spiritual People.

Please join me in seeing things differently than the hype and the movies and so on are trying to get you to see things. See them as peaceful, tranquil and perfect. See that the wars we are prosecuting are ended. See that all is in harmony with the planets, and our Sun. See everything as perfect and peaceful. And look forward to December 12, 2012, as the very best day of your life, because you will make it so. Then…make every day better.

Love, peace, prosperity and joy,

J.

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Staying in the Flow

Strapped for cash right now? Find an organization, preferably with a Spiritual Bent, who is going some good and donate as much as you possibly can to them, first blessing the donation in your mind and heart to return to you 10 fold, 100 fold and a thousand fold.

The most likely reason that you’re strapped for cash now is that you’re hoarding it and operating in fear that you won’t get any more. This is incredibly unspiritual and will keep you very, very broke. And, regardless of what people have told you, being poor isn’t blessed, it isn’t fun, and it isn’t necessary. It doesn’t make you MORE spiritual, it makes you LESS spiritual.

People who are Spiritual understand that remaining in the flow and giving away money will cause money to come to you rapidly.

First, give away all the money you are able. Give it to others who need it, or others who are doing good for those who need it. If possible, give at least 10% of your paycheck or business income or other income (all) each and every month to charitable organizations. Do it FIRST, before you pay any bills, buy any luxuries or have any fun that requires money. Then sit back and watch the windows of heaven open generously. It might take a couple months to show, especially if you give it “scared,” or resentfully, or if you’ve been a nasty little greedy hoarder for a long time.

At the same time, THIS WEEKEND to through your clothes closet. Doesn’t fit you? Give it away. Haven’t worn it for two years? Give it away. Watch new clothes come to you within 6 or so months.

Then, clean out your storage shed, basement, closets and garage. Aren’t using it? Bye-bye. You don’t need it, but someone does. You’re depriving someone of a needed thing.

Give at least 10% of your time. Give away 10% of your professional services. Give away your talents, your time, your material things, and everything else in your life.

Lacking love in your life? Give away your love and ask God for love in return. Be open and loving with people and watch the Universe respond. Lacking a job? Give away your labor. Anything you want in your life, give away. It will return to you many fold.

At the same time, spend money appropriately. Employ the professionals you need. Buy what is necessary. Don’t be afraid to spend money. These are the important things in your life. This is what matters. Don’t be a “dragon.” Dragons hoard things without the slightest need for them. They don’t know what the thing is for, but have an excellent estimate of the item’s market price. Dragons get slayed.

I’m often disgusted at potential clients who come to me and have excuses for not employing my career services when they desperately need it. I watch them go through months of hoarding and unemployment, when they could be working if they weren’t so damned greedy and stingy. They deserve to remain unemployed because they refuse to use what brains and heart God gave them. I often want to shake these people so they’ll wake up and stop being stupid. They don’t want to spend the money on my fee, which is about a month’s salary for them, but will go out and buy a vacation, a new car, a new house, etc. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I watch them, then, sit for 8 or 10 months unemployed when I could have had them employed in about 3 months. Can we say “Congenitally Stupid” boys and girls? Hmmmm?

Give, give and give. Spend money on people who can help you in life. Spend money on helping others in life who need it more than you do. Don’t be an idiot about hoarding your money and hoping something will come along. Utilize the ancient Universal Principle of giving that you may receive, and staying in the flow. Or get used to being broke. As always, the choice is yours.

Love, joy, peace and, most especially, prosperity.

J.

Nostalgia Be Damned!

I just got sent, from one of my more conservative friends, a nostalgic trip to the 1950’s. http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm This was a really fun fantasy video calling to mind old comic books, 45’s, Hi Fis and everything else that the right wing nostalgia crowd wants America to return to. Even though the ‘50s were before my time, I had a great time watching the video, listening to the oldies (and singing along with most), and seeing the guys with the ducktails, the girls with pony tails and hoop skirts, and the covers of the old comic books. But then reality hit.

What the absurd 50's nostalgia nuts forget is nasty signs like "N*****rs not welcome here," separate drinking fountains, the fact that the KKK ran most of the Southern United States, it was illegal to have an interracial marriage, be gay or to live "out of wedlock" with someone then. You could be arrested and hauled down to the police station for “making out” in a car. If you were Black or poor, this would usually entail a beating for the guy, and sometimes rape for the girl.

Divorce required charges, very expensive attorneys and expensive trials. Many people, due to family pressures, laws which made it illegal for certain professions to get a divorce (like lawyers), and societal judgment, stayed in highly loveless and even abusive marriages. Fathers weren't allowed in the delivery rooms with their wives to see their own children born. Many couples did not sleep in the same bed for fear of “scandalizing” the children. “They had to wear pajamas to bed, and had to be clothed except when having sex. Many women had never seen their husbands naked, and visa versa. Yep, it was a great fun time.

Being Black in most of America meant that you could be lynched for looking at a white woman. Schools were segregated. Black schools were pits where, if any learning took place, it was because of a dedicated teacher and a student determined to get out of his or her state in life no matter what. If you were Black and a white person wanted to beat you up, take your property, or force you to do labor for them, you’d better just “take it, boy” or your family would be harmed, your house burned, you’d get fired from your job or have something else terrible happen. In many places, you could not vote, regardless of what the law said.

The judicial system was completely corrupt, and run by groups of judges who were cronies of people who “owned” towns. Whatever these businesspeople wanted, they got. Evidence wasn't required to convict you. Most cops were corrupt. Eisenhower, just like Clinton, was having an affair in the White House. If you were a Catholic or Orthodox or Jewish or Buddhist you were considered a second class citizen, required to sing Christian Christmas Carols every Christmas or be ridiculed in schools your taxes paid for, and so on. Whether your family believed this way or not, you had to pray a Christian prayer in school every morning. Now, right wingnuts don’t have a problem with that. I wonder how they’ll feel when Islam is the majority religion in America and their children will be forced to bow to Mecca 5 times a day. Perhaps the absurd “prayer in schools” crowd should consider that before they try to cram their religious beliefs down the throats of people with other beliefs. Oh. Wait. Right Wing Christians don’t consider this. ‘Cause they’re good and all other religions are bad. (Note for right wingnuts. The preceding statement is called sarcasm. Look it up in a good dictionary….unless you’ve burned them all ‘cause they have “bad words” in them.)

Medical care was almost medieval. I wouldn't even be alive if I were living (dying) in the 1950's. Very little treatment for diabetes, birth defects, fibromyalgia or many of the other things I suffer with was available. Tons of people died from simple diseases that we can fix with one minor surgery or a shot today. Many women still died in childbirth because of the uninformed ignorant methods used.

Nostalgia nuts and the Right Wingnuts forget that the '50's were real fine if you were white, Protestant, middle class, married, and believed certain things about life and the Universe. They were terrible for ethnic or religious minorities, anyone who didn't believe in the absurd Western spoiled brat Protestant God, or were different in any way. That so many Right Wingnuts want to go back to that time simply proves that these people are bigots, or completely ignorant, or both.

Unfortunately, as fun as it was, videos like the one noted above perpetuate a myth of a decade that was never that way, and was terrible in many way. You who are nostalgic need to get real about American history and stop just looking at the past with rose colored glasses.

Here is what we have now. Although there is still a very long way to go, America is finally, though far overdue, moving toward complete sexual and marital freedom. I may never see gay, lesbian and plural marriage made legal but I can assure you my children will as those who are religious die out (thank God) and rational, reasonable people take their place.

More and more people are believing that what people do with their genitals, in their homes, in their bedrooms, or private spaces are their own business. This is a minor step forward, but a step, nonetheless, toward people minding their own damned business.

Church attendance is plummeting. Now, look, I’m a very committed Orthodox Christian, so why am I happy about this? Because, while Orthodox mind our own damned business, most Church organizations encourage people to interfere in the lives of others. I’m ashamed that these interfering, right wing, war worshipping, bigoted and narrow people are calling themselves “Christian,” because they are not. Their teaching bears no resemblance to what Jesus and the Apostles said. This means that, sooner or later, people will not be told that it is God’s will to judge other people, interfere with their lives, and try to make them like us. Eastern Orthodoxy, by the way, is the fastest growing Christian group world wide. We do tell people to mind their own damned business.

While some Republicans and some others hate him with a passion, we have a Black President. Even though I don’t agree with many of the guy’s policies, I am damned happy we have him. (A Black Sherriff??? Hey, it worked in Blazing Saddles!) That’s a long way from “Don’t look at no white women, boy.” We will always have haters like Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter, Glen Beck, Bill O’Reilly and the other right wingnut polemicists. But they are being increasingly marginalized, with only the NASCAR and guns, god and guts crowd listening to them. And these people, rather than being respected members of the community, are, increasingly, bad jokes on late night TV. Finally. By the way, I have nothing against guns, love God and have guts. Just don’t like the way they’re usually combined.

Medical care is still abysmal in America. But I can at least live thanks to medical advances. Now, if we’d get our heads on straight and do things to let everyone have access to these medical miracles, we might get ourselves out of Third World mortality rates.

We finally have most of religion out of public schools, although we still have the bigots and Christian Triumphalists and evangelicals making the ridiculous statements that Christianity is being “persecuted” in our country. HA! That’s as silly as saying that white, male politicians are being persecuted in Congress. Looked at the composition of Congress lately???

We’re getting away from letting the preachers control our lives. Yes, they still have far too much power. But it is waning every day.

People in America, especially since November of 2008, are getting more free again. The trend is toward actual Democracy and Freedom and Liberty and away from the police states, fascism, jingoism, lack of civil rights, and theocracy that George W. Bush and his administration tried to impose on America with the tyrannical Patriot Act, and other restrictions of civil liberties.

Gays and lesbians and those in plural relationships still can’t legally marry….but it is heading that way and the Evangelical flatheads aren’t going to be able to stop it. Minding one’s own business is becoming, once again, a great virtue. People can, once again, have any sexual relationship they want with other consenting adults…in most places.

The Right Wingers hate the advance of liberty, justice, and freedom. They want to tell people what to do and how to do it. But this is being rejected.

But it isn’t being rejected in favor of the Left Wingnuts who want to stop everyone from smoking, put in politically correct language laws, make us the People’s Republic of America, or disarm people so they can’t shoot back at tyrants (which is the intent of the Second Amendment). It is being rejected by Libertarians….people who just wanna be left alone by the damned nosy and interfering government of either the Dempublicans or Republocrats! If you ask most Americans, you will find that they just want government entirely out of their hair, their wallets, and their lives. Alleluia!

2009 has its problems, and big ones. But the 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s had bigger ones. Every era has its problems.

So, with good medical care (even if it is overpriced and only available to some people), less bigotry from everyone but the right wingers, better opportunities for women and minorities, advances in science and technology, and a people slowly finding their way toward a belief system based on reason and logic, I'm very glad I live in 2009. Life in the 1950's was nasty, brutish and short. It was bigoted, dangerous, and absurd. Nostalgia be damned! I'll take now! If you think about it, unless you’re a right winger, you will, too.

Peace, joy, love and prosperity,

J.

Radical Personal Responsibility: The Key to Spirituality

We are completely and absolutely responsible for every single thing that happens to us. Let me say that again, because it is both key and most people don’t believe it. We are completely and absolutely responsible for every single thing that happens to us!

This gets many people very angry. “Why are you blaming me for being sick, getting mugged, being fired?” I’m not. I’m not saying you’re to blame! I’m saying that you’re absolutely and radically responsible. What does that mean?

We must start with the spiritual premise that we have chosen to allow everything that happens to us so that we can learn a lesson. There is nothing that happens to us or in us that does not have something to learn from it.

Now, what happens with most people is that they’re very stubborn. They get a cosmic feather to tickle them into change or growth. They completely ignore it. They get a cosmic 2X4 upside the head. They shake their heads, say “Wow, that was really unpleasant,” and vow to change. They might even begin change for a couple of days or a couple of months. Then they go back to their same self-destructive patterns. So the Universe drops a cosmic piano on their heads to get their attention, and so on. Most people blithely ignore these things. They may even opt out of learning in this lifetime and decide that they are going to get more harsh lessons in the next lifetime or on the next plane, depending on what you believe. These are the people with your so-called “perfect lives.” They aren’t “perfect lives,” they are merely useless and lazy lives. So next time you see someone with a zombie wife or husband, 2.3 children (what does that “point three” of a child look like?) a lovely little home with a white picket fence, and absolutely no problems whatsoever…pity them. They are in for loads of lessons after their finally lay down (they’re already dead, after all) and have dirt put over them. We who are a bit more courageous have chosen to have challenging lives….otherwise known as sometimes crappy lives….to learn what we need to learn and grow into the gods we are intended to be.

So here’s your most important spiritual lesson. We. Are. Completely. And. Totally. Responsible. For. EVERY. Single. Thing. That. Happens. To. Us. If you do not accept this, you will go through what useless life you have as a victim. And, unless you’ve decided to wimp out of life altogether, your lessons are going to get harsher and harsher. So you might as well get the lesson, no matter how difficult, now, rather than later. Things will get harder and harder on you until you do.

And what is the first lesson that the Universe is trying to teach you, upon which all other real lessons depend? That you are completely and totally responsible for every single thing that happens to you. You can be stupid and stubborn and refuse to get it, or you can be intelligent and flexible and get the lesson and move on to your next lesson. But, until you get this one, you aren’t going to be allowed to move onward and upward. You’ll remain stuck without ever getting to learn about compassion, prosperity, love, or any of the other “fun” lessons. If you refuse to get this, you’re like a 35 year old stuck in Kindergarten. You look pretty damned dumb to those of us who understand what is going on.

Now, those who don’t want to accept personal responsibility will say that the rest of us are ganging up on them. That it is our fault. That we’re in some conspiracy “against” them (we’re in a conspiracy all right…for them). That we’re “being mean” to victims. And all sorts of other congenitally stupid and idiotic remarks. We try to smile indulgently, but these people really frost our cookies. It is always someone else’s fault. We didn’t tell them. They didn’t know. No one taught them. They didn’t understand. They’re trying for heaven’s sake. Aren't you going to give me credit for trying, boo hoo? No one told them how to do it. We’re leaving them out. They are introverts and can’t be expected to talk. They had a rough childhood. They’re tired. They’re too busy.

Have you heard these excuses before? Made them? Grow up! You’re being a perpetual child and, yes, you can “help it.”

Here is the reality, baby boys and girls. No one should have to tell you. It isn’t anyone else’s fault (including yours). We’re not in a conspiracy against you. You damned well should know. You’re leaving yourself out. You aren't “trying.” Of course you understand, you just don’t want to. Everyone had a rough childhood, don't you know? And so on. These are all dodges simply to keep you from having to take radical responsibility for what you’re doing and what you’re pulling.

You see, if you confront these folks, you aren’t the first one. They’ve lost friends, family members won’t speak to them, they can’t hold down a job, etc. ,etc. because of their stubbornness and desire to be “left alone.” Unfortunately, that is what will eventually happen. They’ll be left alone. Radically and completely alone. And lonely. And devastated. And those of us who are Spiritual know this, and don’t want to see them be that way and suffer in that extreme. In the end, however, everyone has free will. If they insist on being miserable, in the end, we may, weeping and mourning, have to let them destroy themselves.

If you are this person, get your head out of your behind right now. Stop making all of your excuses and face yourself in the mirror. OK, so you won’t like what you see if you’re truly looking in the mirror. That’s OK. You eventually will.

The first step, like that of an alcoholic, is to take personal responsibility. Admit that you are currently pretty useless and resolve to change and become a useful person in life. Admit that you cause others mostly misery instead of joy, and resolve, rather than beating yourself up about it, that you’re going to begin to give others joy.

Now, when you finally get your head out of your sphincter and take personal responsibility, you’re going to have some hard lessons and get some hard Karma. Suck it up. Deal. Don’t go around feeling sorry for yourself, because it is, after all, your responsibility that you have the Karma to begin with. Accept it joyfully and with a smile on your face. You’ve gotta pay it and get through it one way or another, because you aren’t advanced enough to transcend it through love. You’ve got a more elementary lesson to learn than love, which is the only way you can transcend Karma. You have to learn personal responsibility. That means that you’re going to have feel some of the pain that you’ve caused others, so you understand.

Now, you’re going to want to blame God or the Universe or others or even yourself for this, or feel sorry for yourself, or hate yourself. If you are doing this, you still don’t frigging get it, do you? It isn't anyone’s “fault.” Not yours and not God’s and sure as hell not your friends or family. It is, however, your responsibility.

Take personal responsibility and don’t blame anyone. Deal with going through your Karma and take it like a real man or real woman. Don’t whine and feel sorry for yourself and expect other people to “understand” that it’s hard for you. You likely put other people through hell when you were unconscious. Why should they “understand?” If you expect that, you’re still wanting to be treated as a victim, which means you stil don't get it! Only victims get upset. Only victims need people “to understand” and give them “poor babys.” You aren’t poor and you aren’t a baby. Be a man or woman and live with it!

You have a personal responsibility to deal with what you’ve caused in life. You probably need some pain to learn your lesson. And if you’ve been as stubborn as most Americans are when they are supposed to be learning a lesson that doesn’t adore them as perfect, you probably need lots of pain to learn your lesson. If you want “understanding” and “poor babys” you aren’t going to learn your lesson. Only true babies expect “poor babys” or understanding.

Some people just want to be “left alone” to nurse their wounds. This, again, is a sign that you just plain don't get it! You can't be “left alone” unless you truly want to be “left alone.” The fact that you “need” (you don't“need,” you actually only want) to nurse your wounds says that, once again, you don't get it! You need to expose your wounds to let them heal, and be open to those who want to scrub out your wounds and give them air. They are your doctors and nurses.

Now, most stubborn people will use psychology terms to explain why others are being “mean” to them. They will say that they are just “the identified patient,” or “the scapegoat,” or whatever. They’ll claim that something is a “systems problem,” not their problem alone. Or that their friends and family members who ARE conscious doing an intervention are isolating them or forming bonds over the victimizing of them. Stop this. This is one more escape route that you’re using.

Most unconscious people will go round and round in circular thinking. For every solution to the failure of the unconscious person to learn his or her lesson about person responsibility, they will have an excuse or escape route for why this won’t work, why it is “unkind,” or what they “can’t” do. They’re ill. So and so is “intimidating” (what a great cop-out word!). They don’t have the training. They aren’t good at standing up for themselves, and on and on and on ad nauseum. These are, again, all cop outs.

In the end, if you want to be conscious and learn anything in this life, you will take responsibility. Radically. Totally. Without your damned whining. Without excuses. Without cop-outs. Without avoiding Karma. Without licking your wounds. Openly. With great vulnerability. This is the only way to become conscious.

If you have a victim in your life, get other conscious friends and confront them. Again and again until they either leave your life and be useless for the rest of theirs or finally, beaten and battered (with you beaten and battered by their bullcrap) they get a clue. If you are that person, time to grow up, baby boy or baby girl. Time to stop being a child and be a grown up. Time to actually do something useful except whine.

In the end, these folks have two choices. They can be useless or they can live lives of learning and growth. It is their choice. All those of us who are Spiritual and conscious can do is try to intervene in their highly self-destructive behavior. But we can’t make them be human beings, no matter how painful it is to us to see them destroy themselves. We can only plead and, if they won’t listen to us, mourn.

Love, peace, joy, prosperity,

J.

Rush Limbaugh and Civil War

The unofficial, but unrepentant and unrepudiated spokesperson of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, has suggested either that we re-segregate school buses, or suggested (depending on to whom you listen) that President Obama wants to re-segregate school buses.

Now, look, as a writer, columnist and Libertarian I’m strongly in favor of freedom of speech. This idiot has the freedom to puke out whatever he wishes, just like I do. But the racism, fear mongering and hate-mongering of the Republican Party has got to stop.

It is bad enough that they are scaring stupid little old ladies, like my mother, with their lies about the health care bill. My mom is terrified of it. But their hate-mongering towards the President of the United States is generating 30+ death threats to President Obama in a day. This is four times the number of death threats received by the last President, George W. Bush. With the other lies of the Republican Party regarding Obama wanting to restrict gun sales sending gun sales through the roof this could get very dangerous and very real. I don’t know about you, but I see attempting to off someone with whom you do not politically agree as a very poor way to attempt to solve problems. Let’s leave that solution to the Third World, and do things through a voting booth….just as we did in 2008.

I don’t particularly like Obama, though I voted for him. I’m a Libertarian, and his big government dreams are not in accord with my values. I voted for what I felt was the lesser of two evils. But, just like Mr. Bush was, he is the legally elected President of the United States, even if 1/3rd of New Jersey, my home state, thinks that he is both the Anti-Christ and a Nazi. This is why I left New Jersey at the age of 3.

But this hate-mongering, racism and the consistent lying by the likes of Limbaugh has just got to stop. It is dangerous. And not only to President Obama, gays, lesbians, Democrats, Liberals, and so on. It is very, very dangerous for Republicans as well.

I am an historian, among other things, though mostly of the ancient Christian Church (I have taught a class on the Early Church Fathers at an on-line seminary for Orthodox Christians.) Having this as one of my avocations, I also am a history buff of world history.

If history is any clue, and it, unfortunately, usually is, the result of harm (may God forbid) to President Obama will result in the beginning of rioting on the part of many Blacks and many Liberals, almost certain injury and death of those perceived as conservative, and, possibly, civil war in the United States.

If you think it cannot happen here, you haven’t been paying attention. “Tea-baggers” are trying the patience of Liberals, many Blacks, etc. with their black-face, racist caricatures of the President, their hateful signs, and their equating President Obama with Chancellor Hitler. This was something that Liberals did with President Bush, and was condemned. Why don’t the Republicans condemn this sort of thing when so-called “conservatives” do it? It was inappropriate (though, from Secretary Ashcroft’s words, somewhat supportable) when it was done to President Bush. It is at least as inappropriate with President Obama. Considering that President Obama is instituting Socialist “reforms” in the United States, if they’re going to compare him to an historic villain, let’s at least get the wing right and compare him to Premier Lenin, who changed the face of Russia and the then-soon-to-be Soviet Bloc. (Neither is appropriate, of course. But let’s get at least the wing right.) I’m afraid those carrying the signs, however, do not know either history nor their villains. Most are only aware of who won on “American Idol,” from their quotes.

Civil war can and, sooner or later, will happen in the United States. The Dempublicans and Republocrats and the other useless politicians, along with the greedy and cynical right wing talk show hosts, have polarized America so much that America is like a tinder-dry forest, just waiting for a careless camper with a careless match to ignite the whole thing.

Civil war means families fighting against one another. It is bad enough now that my mother is a right wing Republican, as is my father-in-law. There are many things of which we cannot speak. But civil war means that families will have daughters and sons shooting at their fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers. It means complete economic collapse. It means food riots. It means office buildings, churches, synagogues, schools, and many other things set afire and burning to the ground. This is the condition of much of the world right now. Do not the Limbaugh “Dittoheads” understand that this is what they’re bringing to America through their racism, hate-mongering and fear-mongering?

Limbaugh suggested that busses be re-segregated because some Black kids beat up a White kid. Horrors. And how many White kids have beat up Black kids, pray tell? Beatings of any kind are very wrong. But this happens when you put hot-headed young men together in a tin can, regardless of race. Who knows what sparked the beating. Perhaps the White kid said the “N” word. Perhaps the Black kids just felt like beating on some White kid. Who knows? Regardless, it is wrong. But this should be a cause to call for better discipline in our schools, not for re-introducing racism!

Limbaugh has played “Barack the Magic Negro” time and again. This is highly insulting to Black Americans. He has called President Obama a racist time and again. It is clear that a Black President threatens many people for some absurd reason known only in the bowels of what they call their minds. Fine. But the hate-mongering of these right wingnut talk show hosts must be repudiated by the Republican Party and every level-headed American of either “wing.” This has gotten out of hand…far out of hand. Senator McCain, (ex) Governor Palin and every other Republican leader should be disavowing the extremist views of this irresponsible branch of their political party, rather than embracing them.

Someone who is prominent on the Republican side of the aisle has got to say, “Enough. Calm down. This is a duly elected President of the United States and we must give this man every bit of respect due to the President. These people, including Rush Limbaugh, are wrong. They are lying. And they must not be seen to represent the Republican Party.”

I have many Republican friends. I do not agree with much of what either the Democrats nor Republicans say. I am a Libertarian. I am for absolute Liberty in virtually everything, and for virtually no taxes, no wars, no government spending. Yes, I voted for Barack Obama because some kind of change was needed. It is, regrettably, business as usual on the “Hill” and in the White House. I do not know for whom I would vote knowing what I know now, but I would likely make the same choice, as there were no good choices.

Republicans, Democrats and even we wild-eyed Libertarians should be getting along and working to solve the serious problems in America, not playing politics and racial games. America is in deep trouble, dear readers. We need serious people, not politicians, demagogues, and radio racists.

I gulp as I say this, but I encourage you to listen to Rush Limbaugh. I do, from time to time. Know for yourself what outrageous things this man is saying. Listen to Glen Beck, too. Then write their sponsors, if you find them as outrageous as I do. You, and you alone, have the power to shut these people down. If everyone who disagreed with these individuals boycotted the sponsors of these right wingers, they would not be on the radio or TV. If Fox (Faux) News wasn’t making money off of hate-mongering, they wouldn’t show it. They aren't ideologues. They are businesspeople. They have no ideals except their bottom line. This is where you must hurt them. Their left pocket is where they store their genitals. Kick them in it.

Also listen to Bill Maher, on the other side. He, at least, has both viewpoints represented on his show. Listen and, if you disagree with him, boycott his sponsors, too. Use your economic power, which, in these times, is great. Perhaps if we quietly do so, the conversation will calm down a great deal.

There is too much at risk here. What is at risk is our very way of life, not only our lives. What is at risk is America herself….sometimes a horrible country, but often a beacon of liberty that the world needs. We need an America like it was…where Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neil could be best friends and go have a beer together after tearing each other apart for policies. This was America. I’m afraid I don’t recognize the country I’m living in now, and have been living in for the past several years.

Love, peace, joy and prosperity,

J.