Posts from the moral center of hell

Over the past few days a number of commentators have expressed awe at the indecency and depravity of the Republican party and its core constituents in applauding the notion that the state has no obligation to ensure the well being of it citizenry in the event of unforeseen medical catastrophe.

During a televised debate between candidates for the Republican Party presidential nominee, CNN host Wolf Blitzer asked Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), given that he was a practicing medical doctor, as to what obligation does the state have to an individual who chooses not to pay for medical insurance but falls ill. Ron initially evaded the question and gave the standard "right to choose" and "liberty" blather that economic libertarians like to preach. When Blitzer pressed on and asked if the man should be left to die, the crowd erupted in "Yeah!"

This is the party that always calls itself moral and Christian. This the party that goes around the nation demanding an end to abortion. Ron Paul himself has claimed that abortion is nothing less than murder. This is the same party that rammed through congress a bill that would have stripped Terri Schiavo's husband from deciding on her welfare, given her vegetative and unconscious existence, and making her a ward of the state. This is the same party that was shrieking over the evils of Obamacare and the horrors of death panels and socialized medicine, in the run up to the 2010 congressional midterm elections. Yet when faced with the opportunity to show some decency and Christian charity, they reverted to their true character.

Republicans aren't just an amoral political force. They are a dangerous cancer on humanity. Their war-mongering, anti-intellectual, anti-environmental, and hyper-religiosity founded on evangelical bigotry of all persons who do not share their immediate goals, has been shown to be lethal to those of us not living in Dixie.