Hypothetical Social Conservative Screenplay

Are Social Conservatives Destroying America?

Justice Dakota

02/27/12

Act 1; Scene 1:

The actor is on a stage in front of a crowd representing the Real Conservative Movement (RCM).

The actor emerges from behind a curtain and paces the stage until the audience is silenced.

The actor positions himself center-stage and addresses the crowd: 

"Imagine, if you will, a candidate who can solve the economic problems of America. Imagine a candidate who can put in place policies that will make the next generation of Americans wealthier, more educated, more secure, and more free.

"Imagine this candidate will balance the budget and pay off our national debt within six months of being elected President of the United States. He wins, almost over-night, the "war on terrorism," stops illegal immigration, and, by virtue of his genius, discovers the first-ever clean, green, oil deposit somewhere in Nebraska.

"This new clean, green oil can be delivered to market within days, and, guess what? America has so much of this clean, green, new oil -- we become a net exporter of oil, and the revenues allow the federal government to have a financial surplus for the next 1,000 years, and the ability to send each and every American an annual check for $35,000.

"Let's say this candidate's policies increase our international influence and prestige, and that our military becomes even more dominant. This candidate revitalizes free-enterprise in America and unemployment drops to 0! Stay with me people!

"Let us imagine no more poverty in America, no more racism -- unbelievable economic prosperity, AND -- no more disease! This candidate never breaks the law and defends the Constitution. This candidate is also a humanitarian, philanthropist, and one of the most caring and generous people on Earth.

"Now, let us imagine that this candidate was a Deist and/or not religious at all. Imagine this candidate, because he is virtually ideologically agnostic on all social issues, tells the nation that all social and religious issues involving morality should be left up to the states and parents.

"Pretend this candidate says he does not care what people do in the privacy of their homes as long as no person is being harmed. Let's say this candidate has been divorced 12 times and has numerous children with a plethora of women (all of whom say he is a wonderful and caring father) throughout the world."

The actor pauses for a long while. He puts his thumb under his chin pretending to look intellectual.

The actor walks closer to the audience and asks (in a loud, motivational tone): "Who among you would vote for the candidate described above?"

The crowd briefly pauses, seemingly shocked! Then a chorus of boos echo through-out the auditorium.

The boos turn into yells: "Never! Never!" Many in the audience rise to their feet and chant, "Not me, not me, not me ... "

Scene ends with actor running off stage as peanuts are hurled in his direction.

Cut!  

President Cotton Mather? OMG!

What will Senator Santorum do After Michigan Loss?

Justice Dakota

02/25/2012

According to Senator Rick Santorum (2008): "He (SATAN) was successful. He (SATAN) attacks all of us and he attacks all of our institutions. The place where he (SATAN) was, in my mind, the most successful and first successful was in academia. He (SATAN) understood pride of smart people. He (SATAN) attacked them at their weakest, that they were, in fact, smarter than everybody else and could come up with something new and different. Pursue new truths, deny the existence of truth, play with it because they're smart. And so academia, a long time ago, fell."

So, WOW! The "Real Conservative Movement (RCM)" as promoted (explicitly and/or implicitly) by famous RCM talking-head (Sean Hannity) and radio-head (Rush Limbaugh) have devolved the Republican Party to the point where we are back to the future ... er, uh, or is the future back to the past?

Has the RCM become the Super-Pac: Restore a Future For The Past (Cotton Mather)?

“That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.”
― Cotton Mather (Sometime before 1728!)

“If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?”
― Cotton Mather (Again, sometime before 1728!)

Santorum in 2008: "This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies (SATAN) has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies (SATAN) would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan (SATAN), who would you attack in this day and age. There is no one else to go after other than the United States and that has been the case now for almost two hundred years, once America's preeminence was sown by our great Founding Fathers."

Mather before 1728: “Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.”
― Cotton Mather (or Santorum 2008?)

OMG! Senator Santorum (and the RCM), with all due respect -- WOW! What the Hell (SATAN) is happening to the Republican Party as controlled by the Establishment RCM?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDNCkcC47eQ

Senator "Pre-Natal" or "Church Lady"?

Did Senator Rick Santorum Officially Become the Church Lady?

Justice Dakota

02/21/2012

Many have warned the "Real Conservative Movement (RCM)" to "cool their jets" with respect to articulating that their neighbors will burn in Hell for eternity.

For some reason, the RCM (primarily supported by Conservative Talk-Radio hosts) prefers to talk about wombs, Satan, genitals, porn, marriage, Gays, Satan, genitals and porn. Stop it! Oh, and they like to talk about sex as well.

What about Capitalism? What about Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason?" What about William F. Buckley Jr.?

What has the RCM done to the Republican Party? What are they doing to the country? And what the heck is Santorum doing being the Church Lady?  

Sincerely,

Justice Dakota

Obama Can Still Win -- Easily!

Easy Win for President Obama?

"I Ain't Got No Quarrel With The Viet-Cong... No Viet-Cong Ever Called Me Nigger" —
Muhammad Ali, 1966

Justice Dakota

02/18/2012

The Republican "Real Conservative Movement (RCM)" should be careful. Many moderate Republicans and Independents agree with Muhammad Ali! (In the following sense:) --

"The Peeps ain't got no quarrel with President Obama! Obama never said we will all burn in Hell for eternity!"

Too much "Republican Religiosity" during the Primary process will get Obama re-elected!
Duh!

Word to the Wise!

Sincerely,

Justice Dakota

Maybe We Are All Independents Now?

I Never Thought I Would Become an Independent ...

Justice Dakota

02/18/2012

I became a Republican because of President Ronald W. Reagan (during my teens), and because my subsequent study of political and economic history demanded that I intellectually embrace American Conservatism as the best ideology for continued American Greatness. That type of conservatism, however, is not embraced by the majority of post-Reagan Republican Presidential candidates. Not Bush, not Dole, not Bush, not McCain, and not the majority of the pack this time around.

Republican primary voters appear to have abandoned American political and economic conservative theory. (I am so lonely.)

A word to the wise (and to the talking heads of the "Real Conservative Movement (RCM))", Reagan was not a Social Conservative Ideologue!

Who turned Reagan into Aunt Bee, and when did this happen? Was it former Speaker Newt Gingrich? Was it Kenneth Starr? Was it Monica Lewinsky? Maybe it was Pat Robertson's presidential bid? Who the hell turned the Republican Party (at the Primary process) into the Amish Party? 

Was Newt going after President Bill Clinton because of Lewinsky while he was having an affair with a staffer? Did Starr seem to smugly enjoy the illicit SEXUAL secrets of Clinton while attempting to prosecute him?

Did Pat Robertson believe God wanted him to be President until he failed to become President -- then God changed His mind? We know that a significant number of Republican Primary voters tend to be hard-core Christian Evangelicals and Fundamentalists.

We also know that nine of our Founding Fathers were Freemasons (including Benjamin Franklin, Grand Master of Pennsylvania), and that George Washington became a Mason in 1752. Washington had this to say about Masonry:

"Flattering as it may be to the human mind, and truly honorable as it is to receive from our fellow citizens testimonies of approbation for exertions to promote the public welfare, it is
not less pleasing to know that the milder virtues of the heart are highly respected by a Society whose liberal principles must be founded in the immutable laws of truth and justice.

To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished that the conduct of every member of the Fraternity, as well as those publications that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the great object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race." George Washington

We also know that many "Conservative Republican Evangelicals and Fundamentalists (CREFs)" agree with Pat Robertson's view on Masonry (In his book, In The New World Order, Robertson warns readers that Freemasonry is an evil, Luciferian conspiracy).

Now, you don't have to be intellectual and/or a genius to appreciate the internal contradictions CREFs experience when they proclaim that our Founding Fathers intended for the United States to be a Christian Nation. If George Washington was a candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2012, would CREFs consider the "Father of our Country" evil and Luciferian? Ouch!

How did the CREFs mess up the Republican Party so much when the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is so clear: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...." and Article VI specifies that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the
United States"?

CREFs love to talk about our Founding Fathers and our Constitution. But do they enjoy mythology more than reality? I don't know ... Can someone tell me who or what destroyed American Conservatism? I know that it was not William F. Buckley Jr., that's for sure!

Is it possible that contemporary, conservative religious practice is destroying American Political and Economic Conservatism -- and the Republican Party? Again, I too struggle
with ironies ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/18/us-usa-campaign-santorum-idUSTRE81H0M220120218

Romney/Paul Defeat Obama/Biden

Could Romney/Paul be the Moral/Ethical Ticket?

Justice Dakota

02/17/2012

Have you noticed that political candidates (everywhere) like to talk about their faith when they think their faith will help them get votes?

A Christian wise man once told me, "God is not a political whore. Exploiting the Lord for political purposes is the definition of blaspheme."

So, in the context of the above quote -- I have noticed that Congressman Ron Paul and Governor Mitt Romney do their best not to "exploit God for votes." Am I the only one who respects their discipline? The same person quoted above once postulated that: " ... if you attribute to the Lord his approval of your ideology may have you not used his name in vain?"

Whoa! I know most Real Conservatives (RCs) who consider themselves part of the Real Conservative Movement (RCM) probably never thought about the spiritual and religious egotism associated with the assumption of knowing God's political ideology. So, let's not peel the RCM onion any further. This blog is not about freaking anyone out! It's all good ... Just relax ...

The superior morality of the religious politician who has the faith and discipline to not exploit God for votes should be obvious. However, some (percentage of the population  unknown) religious peeps somtimes need a little validation (I have young children, trust me -- validation works). And, to get elected, most politicians will, at some point, use the Lord's name in vain. (And that really sucks!)

RCM-types who are religious egotists (like Palin, Perry, Bachman) are legion. They are joined by President Obama who recently indicated that Jesus Christ endorses his political and economic world-view.

They all do it -- political and economic ideology does not matter. They must be thinking, "If the Lord can get me some votes, I will use him." Wow! That would make me uncomfortable. Needing validation and/or needing to validate others must put a person in a horrific moral dilemma when God is used as a Notary.

So, given this particular context, is it potentially interesting that Paul and Romney seem to be mocking God the least? It's a question! If they are not exploiting the Lord for political purposes, are they the two most moral and ethical presidential candidates? Don't worry, ironies freak me out too ...

What Mitt Needs to Do ...

... to become the Next President of the United States --

Justice Dakota

02/16/2012

Dear Governor Romney,

Sir, you are playing it really close to the margins -- and time is of the essence. Whoever your "Advisers" are ... uh, well ... Snore!

So, here is how you become POTUS in a nutshell:

1) Stop using words and phrases that most Americans don't use in their daily lives (for instance, "... for Pete's Sake"). Just stop doing that and your numbers go up several percentage points.

2) For God's sake, man -- stop being defensive!

3) Dude, you're Mormon. Talk about it; talk about the horror of religious bigotry. Talk about the Founding Father's disgust of a religious litmus-test to hold public office. Governor, you know bigotry. Does your campaign demonstrate a fear of the bigots? Put religious bigotry to rest ... send it to the "ash-heap" of history.

4) Don't shower for several days.

5) Give the "kid-folk" something. We all know you can't be "hip" -- but give the youngsters a "policy-bone." A little imagination, Sir, goes a long way ...

6) You may consider getting "radical" about something. "Radical Reform of the Tax Code" (Oh, and propose something radical). Here's a good one: "Radical Re-investment in Freedom and Prosperity."

With Respect,

Justice Dakota