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While the Democrats are dancing their victory dance in the wake of the election of what some of them termed the messiah (doofs), the Republicans are eating their own.
A lone Republican leader defends Sarah Palin while McCain is mum. Yes, it’s shocking, we know here at the Ticket. But there is at least one prominent Republican sticking up for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Go figure. Her presidential running mate sure isn’t. The 44-year-old working mom singlehandedly energized the party’s base with an electrifying speech and refreshing personality at the Republican National Convention and after. … But in the, what-is-it-now, four days since American voters decisively opted for the younger guy from Illinois, one or two of John McCain’s brave aides have been anonymously leaking uncorroborated charges about Palin’s personality, knowledge, spending habits, etc., which the media gobbles up, in an apparent attempt to pin the defeat on the female half of the GOP ticket.
The Republicans, who have for a long time claimed to be the party of God, aren’t very learned when it comes to the Bible- or they would know that ‘a house divided cannot stand.’ And that, dear reader, is why politicians are justly held in such low standing.
Opponents of Proposition 8 (the gay marriage ban) in California have now taken to the streets and are planning court action because, well, they don’t believe in majority rule or democracy.
Frustration and outrage over the passing of a ban on same-sex marriage intensified in San Diego yesterday as thousands of protesters took to the streets and vowed to continue the fight for equal rights.
Hence, when frustrated (I don’t like the way the majority of my state voted) and outraged (because others refuse to see things the way I see them), complain and then do your utmost to force your views on the majority that has already renounced your position twice at the ballot box.
The people of California have made their wishes known. That’s the way democracy works. But let’s have a little fun with it. Let’s suppose that the proponents of gay marriage are actually able to sway the courts and secure ‘the right to marry’. The tyranny of the few will then have become the dominance of the few. Where, then, will democracy have gone?
It being Kristallnacht it seems terribly proper to compare the protests of the proponents of gay marriage with the proponents of anti-semitism. The proponents of gay marriage are a minority; Anti-semites in Germany were a minority. The proponents of gay marriage are marching in the streets; the anti-semites marched through the streets. The proponents of gay marriage wish to force their view on the majority; the anti-semites did force their view on the majority.
Ah, alas, I can already hear the complaints and the outrage at the comparison. And just as that comparison is unfair and improper, so too is the attempt to exchange democracy for the will of the few.
November 9, 2008 marks the 70th anniversary of one of the most despicable events in human history: Kristallnacht, the night the Nazis unleashed a flood of terror against Jewry. That night, Germany took a full bite out of the apple of hatred, chewed it, and swallowed it. It marked the beginning of open season on Germany’s Jews and the Holocaust was the result.
Hatred, set free, always results in the most horrendous of acts. We came very close to the same sort of hatred here in the States aimed at Muslims in the wake of 9/11. Yes, too close for comfort. Hatred is, after all, the purest (or more properly, the most impure) manifestation of Total Depravity.
Guard yourselves against hatred; or one day it will become your master and you its simple slave. That’s the lesson Kristallnacht has to teach us still, 70 years later.
