Interesting Op-Ed piece in the NY Times today (free subscription required) where Paul Krugman points out the the lies from Rove's propaganda machine and finally asks:"Most of all, it's about what has happened to America.
How did our political system get to this point?"
Gee, you think it might have been the complicit silence of the media from Election Day 2000 until just a few weeks ago when Bush's ratings dropped to a safe number?
From this article in the Washington Post (free registration required):
"The long war on Christianity in America continues today on the floor of the House of Representatives," Republican Rep. John N. Hostettler of Indiana said during a June 20 debate on an amendment asking the Air Force Academy to come up with a plan to limit "coercive and abusive" proselytizing. He said the war "continues unabated with aid and comfort to those who would eradicate any vestige of our Christian heritage being supplied by the usual suspects, the Democrats."
We are not at war with Christianity. Indeed, many of those you regard as the enemy are Christians themselves.
We are defending ourselves from religious zealots, who would use God, who would twist and distort the word of God, to suit their own aims of dominance and control. We are defending ourselves from religious zealots, who would twist the facts and misrepresent reality to suit their own aims of dominance and control.
We are not at war with Christianity. We are defending ourselves from religious zealots. If you possess a modicum of righteousness (not to be confused with self-righteousness), you need not fear.
Despite all appearances, it's still a free country.
