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| Kakistocracy Candidates are the Darlings of Corporate Media |
Kakistocracy is a form of government
where the least qualified individuals are in power. It comes from the Greek
κακιστος (kakistos) meaning “worst”), the superlative of κακος (kakos) meaning
“bad”.
Pretty much every cable news network as well as most corporate news outlets run non-stop stories on about 20 Republican Candidates that desire to be President of the United States!
Most notably is Donald Trump who made a fuss (poorly veiled racism) about Obama's birth certificate and claimed Mexican immigrants where rapist and criminals. In addition he questioned John McCain's status as a war hero because he got caught??? The reason Trump did not get caught is you can't catch someone hiding behind deferments tucked away safely in the US out of harms way!
Yet one theme common among these candidates is an unbridled desire to send your love ones into harms way. I look at the Donald Trump phenomenon as well as the other war hawk candidates and wonder why kind of society would even consider such under qualified people to make critical decisions for them. It boils down to such a society is called a kakistokracy!
Here are some common traits and characteristics of these candidates:
Highly religious and outspoken about their religion to such a point where their religious zeal blinds their objectivity and drives them to force a society to adhere to their religious and moral values. Abortion is an obsession to these folks to such an extent they would force a woman to die of medical complications rather than granting an abortion. Rick Santorium stated that the child of a woman raped should be considered a gift from God.
Funny I thought our constitution was serious about separation of Church and State......in a Kakistokracy this is not so!
Most of these candidates are middle-aged or older white males with a love of guns and wars and a loathing for black and brown people and so called "illegals"! They spout their Christian love and at the same time love guns, war and the death penalty. Their fundamental shortcoming is their lack of empathy for any human beings that deviate from their ideal!
Their religion and lack of empathy or human understanding generates attitudes destructive to our very planet and it's inhabitants including all forms of life. Earth has been disrespected because of religious beliefs that the universe was created for man's pleasure and plunder. The evidence is in our fragile space ship is constant attack by greed driven corporations under the warm approval of the politicians that have been bought by these companies. The Republican party and it's right wing or Tea Party arm relishes corporate power and is tirelessly working on dismantling environmental protections that fly in the face of corporate profits. Their mantra is privatization and it does not take much digging to see how wonderful this concept is. Universities, prisons, Social Security, Medicare are all under threat by privatization. For profit schools rake the government student loan programs valiantly assisting students to get student loans for obscene tuition's and an education that is worthless leaving the student in unsupportable debt. This corporate manipulation is prevalent in all for profit endeavors, health care, prisons, and private armies to name some.
Mike Huckabee: In
August of 1998, Huckabee was one of 131 signatories to a full page USA Today Ad
which declared: "I affirm the statement on the family issued by the 1998
Southern Baptist Convention." What was in the family statement from the
SBC? "A wife is to submit herself
graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church
willingly submits to the headship of Christ."
Recently he would
consider involving the FBI and federal troops in his mad crusade to prevent
abortions.
“I almost wish that there would be, like, a simultaneous
telecast, and all Americans would be forced — forced at gunpoint no less — to
listen to every David Barton message, and I think our country would be better
for it. I wish it’d happen.” — YouTube, Rediscover God in America conference.
Lastly for Mike, he has a friend called Ted Nugent, enough
said!
Chris Christie, this man is good at making enemies and rattling peoples
cages. Politically I don't agree with him but more important is his attitude
towards animals. The greatness of a
nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated, a saying attributed to
Mahatma Gandhi. Christie vetoed a bi-partisan bill that would give sows more
pen room to make their lives a little easier. You would think a man of his
girth would have more empathy for animals in such confined spaces. Did I mention
these guys don't seem to have a lot of empathy for people or animals.
Sen. Marco Rubio was among the Florida state
legislators who voted for the so-called "Scarlet Letter" law in 2001
that required single mothers to publish their sexual histories in the newspaper
in order to place their babies up for adoption.
Scott Walker: Speaking to reporters [in Iowa] Saturday after
an appearance at the Family Leader Summit, Walker said the next president will
need to be prepared to take aggressive action against Iran, "very
possibly" including military strikes, on the day he or she is inaugurated,
and said he would not be comfortable with a commander in chief who is unwilling
to act aggressively on day one of a new presidency.
Ted Cruz: The Texas senator and Tea Party favorite was
the first to throw his hat into the ring on March 23. A committed Southern
Baptist, Cruz has been outspoken about religious freedom, both at home and
abroad, and has taken a strong stance against same-sex marriage. He is currently
seeking to introduce legislation to protect each state's right to make its own
decision on the issue.
Jeb Bush: When asked by a citizen about ISIS Jeb blamed Obama. The citizen correctly informed Mr Bush that ISIS was created by his war criminal brother and his despicable administration.
I shudder to think if one of these candidates had been elected President instead of Obama what a mess we as Americans would be in right now. When a person lacks empathy they lack all rational understanding which results in being ignorant of who they are! If they knew who they were they would not be so eager to bomb and maim other people.
