FANATICISM

My first heading for this was to be, Right-Wing Fanaticism, but it is a simple truism that those folks don't hold the entire franchise on fanaticism and I repudiate fanatic tendencies in general.

Facebook has become a bit more of a pain for me recently, though I still have almost no attachment to the site and rarely check in there.  Some near-acquaintance from my youth sent a "friend" request some weeks ago and I, as usual in my non-discriminating manner, accepted.  Since then, I haven't opened my profile without seeing piles of political crap directed toward our president and I notice that other former friends and/or acquaintances of mine are shown to have "liked" the bullshit.  Today I finally cracked and wrote a simple comment stating that I don't appreciate the filling of my pages with that fanatical trash and I'm sorry if anyone or everyone else I know happens to "like" it; I emphatically do not.  I do very much hope this man "un-friends" me.  Good riddance!  Or perhaps I will simply un-friend the website itself.

Ever notice that radicalism - fanaticism - does fall more readily into the hands and minds of right-wingers?  As I stated earlier, they aren't alone in this capacity, but I am absolutely confident that there are millions more bad jokes and cruel slurs aimed at liberals by conservatives than is the reverse phenomenon.  Can you recall a constant stream of invective and brutish jokes being hurled at the previous resident of the White House?  I don't think there were many at all, in comparison.  And if anyone ever deserved ridicule while in office, it was that imbecile who was an embarrassment to our nation.  Much worse, he was destructive to all that this great nation had come to stand for, from our founding until 2001.  Even Tricky Dick Nixon was far to be desired over that sorry excuse for a political leader, yet most of us who felt that way quietly suffered for eight years without constantly throwing verbal grenades at the clown.  Today I will bluntly say anything a damn well please about the ignorant prick, but for eight years, all I could do was rush to grab the remote whenever his impudent face came on the television screen.  At least muting him was a slight relief to me.

It occurs to me that many of the folks who are labeled "Liberal" and "Progressive" are a bit more educated, perhaps more intelligent, certainly more civil in their beings.  Conservatives seem to me to have one over-arching concept of living in society: Get mine while I can, however I can, wherever I can - the rest be damned.  And anyone who doesn't think my way isn't worth the air he breathes. 

Yes, I do know some people precisely like this.  Pity.