“It Works Every Time.”

Many Americans are abandoning their principles of rationality by allowing fear mongering; racist demagoguery, and anti-religion fervor lead the country to what resembles the Dark Ages of Europe where degradation, pestilence, and strife were law.

People can always be brought to the will of “fake” leaders. How easy is it? All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce those that counter your argument as Communists, Maoist, Stalinist or Socialists as exposing the country to danger. I assure you this type of deviant rhetoric works every time in any country.

When citizens start taking their cues from Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, two individuals that are so "intellectually inept" that Darwin would revise his theory of evolution after meeting them, you know the Republic is moving in a direction that will be sure to have a cataclysmic effect for a generation.

During the Dark Ages of Europe, if anyone was discovered practicing a religion other than Catholicism they would feel the fire under their feet--literally as they were burned at the stake, tortured or imprisoned. Today in America, there are citizens that continue the tradition of religious intolerance unless you're a "good Christian." In addition, the very people that use the Constitution to justify carrying guns into supermarkets, schools, and churches are shockingly quiet in that the same document supports practicing any religion without persecution. Yet, if one is for an example a Muslim they are branded a "terrorist" despite the fact that 90% of those practicing Islam world-wide including in the Republic are peace loving and law-abiding citizens.

We are moving backwards. We are allowing "perverts of anarchy" to decide the outcome of the Republic's future. We are moving backwards when we fail to hold elected officials accountable that are not concerned about the citizens or creating jobs for the aforementioned, or ending political corruption, improving our public schools, aiding the elderly and the poor, striking down poverty and addressing illegal immigration without rewriting America’s history; instead they submit and engage in racial and religious intolerance, xenophobia and perpetuate the elimination of the middle class and the working poor.

21st century America is looking more like the Dark Ages of Europe. We are moving back to a chapter in humanity when a dysfunctional society was built upon fear, illiteracy, poverty and superstitious rhetoric that decided the fate of one's life. Be careful citizens. Be very careful.




Anthony P. Johnson