The March of The New American Nazis

The attack on our liberties continues and the fascists of our country grow bolder.  There are the word Nazis, the food Nazis, the smoking Nazis...the growing armies of frack-ing Nazis!   Heil-ya'll.  Just pick your cause and fall in step with those that would dictate or have the government regulate what we do, how we run our business, what we think and what we say. 

It all goes against the very principles of freedom.  In a free society, it is guaranteed that all creeds, colors and cultures will live together and have the right to pursue their beliefs and happiness.  In such an idealistic democratic melting pot of mixed humanity, individuals will be offended, will be in deep disagreement with other citizens.  The whole point is supposed to be that free people have the right to protest loudly and publicly, to campaign and work for change.  No one individual has the right to deprive another of that privilege. 

I am no big fan of our current president, never have been. However, in recent days, we've had the completely idiotic condemnation of O'bama because he used the offensive "N" word. It's not that the word isn't offensive, it's ugly.  But, there's not one person who berated the president that is not intelligent enough to know the context that he used the word in.  We have become a nation of politically correct pea-brains, purposefully misreading, spinning and twisting actions and words. Words, folks...you CAN NOT censor and ban words. The freedom of speaking those words, however offensive to some, is one of our biggest privileges.

This ultra sensitive, narcissistic culture that we have nurtured isn't correcting injustices, it's fanning the flames of hate.  The PC Nazis are stomping and prancing and attempting to turn offensive and ugly behavior into a crime, trying to ban any words or actions that they don't like or agree with. I say, mind your own business, take care of your own self.  In your self important arrogance, don't show me the nightmarish deaths and horrors of smokers and abused animals. Your latest genius terrorist strategy, being sure that I know the horrible death I will face if I drink soda pop. Get off of my TV! Get out of my life! 

When I said "bolder" this is what I mean.  It's no longer enough to give warnings or information, they must force feed us their opinions.  Who are They?  America is supposed to be about WE.  A nation that is free for all recognizes that many compromises will be necessary.  You can stand up all day long and tell me that you think I'm stupid or wrong, but never try to take away my right to be stupid or wrong.

Please, Spare Me the Gory Details

Why is it these days, there is a compulsion to know, see and hear EV-E-RY thing?  Actually, I'm not sure that so many are compelled to this, but multitudes are compelled to show and tell us.  I can't speak, of course, for all. Myself, by the time I hear or read the headlines, the news (supposedly), I'm just sick and tired. 

Billy Graham said, "Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame for sin is the new emblem of American society." It rings painfully true.  I would have to be honest and say that I make very few decisions or judgments in my life based on religion. Indeed, I'm not a deeply spiritual individual. However, facts are facts. The majority of us, me most certainly, have people we love, family and friends and people we know that have personal problems and troubles.  The young folks of today have particularly hard and confusing decisions and choices.  I doubt, other than a few close friends, that anyone gives a rat's ass about those things.  Why would the fact that thousands of people know your name, make this more interesting?

Even the latest fashion trend is celebrities spending obscene amount of dollars on dresses that you can see their underwear through.  Why? I wish that I got that, but I just don't.  The "NEWS" is about people's ever changing or possibly illegal sexual preferences, their gender switching, their new aversion to their partner...a huge disgusting buffet of private crappiness. Everyday, I scour the news looking for some stories that are interesting, not about famous names, have some type of value.  It's not that people don't have true dilemmas or that I don't think they have the right to be, and to a degree, do what they want. Please, spare me the endless details. 

I get that people sometimes need validation, approval. Whatever happened to the notion of privacy, to pride and dignity?  Keeping private things private, doesn't mean that you're ashamed, it simply means that you have some self respect and dignity and that it's nobody's damn business.  I truly am so weary and sickened by the current obsession to dig around in one's life closet, drag out the stinkiest, nastiest & ugliest bag of secrets that is there and splash it across any media that will promote it. I may be a bitchy old broad, but it seems much less about difficult events in one's life and much more about publicity. Folks that have no personal boundaries or self respect don't seem to mind a bit what kind of publicity they get. A world filled with narcissistic inhabitants will not be a place any humans will thrive in.