Why this is not making sense

If you were putting together a tribe, would it not make sense that the leaders are the ones that are the wisest and have passed on the greatest skills to the strongest new generation of hunters and gatherers? Would you not want the leaders to be capable of learning new things?

Well, if you have lived in North America for the past decade, what has happened is exactly the opposite. In The US, they have begun to straighten things out. They hit a rock bottom I hope we never get near. We are going to move up soon, as well, I hope.

Neo-Cons, Right wingnuts (Bush-Harper) have been running the place in exactly the worst way. They are close minded people who ignore the great learning of the tribe. Religion is fine as long as it does not cut off your Brain from learning new things. Where it thinks the enlightenment and the scientific revolution are things that need to be ignored...well you get the mess we have today and you get the kind of Relgion that blows other people up.

I still cannot fathom the neo-con version of Christianity which ignores the vast bulk of what Jesus is saying in scripture - um, it's been a few years but I think Jesus is an important part of Christianity? There is no kindness and humilty to these bible thumpers.

In other words, they don't even follow their own teachers.

Bush was dumb - smart people tell me Harper is smart, but it is so tough to believe that when everything he says and does is so mean and narrow-minded. I guess he is a pigeon - his brain can fly thousands of miles, but try and catch him and he flies exactly 4 feet - just the minimum effort to solve the most immediate problem.

Harper sees his party as the one of practicality, and the "right wing" liberals as one of rigid ideas. First - they are further to the right than ever. I guess Harper does not believe in the existence of the NDP. This reminded me of The Russian Revloution. Lenin named his side and named his opponents. He called his folks "Bolsheviks" which means moderate, and Kerensky's people "Mensheviks" which means "radical". (my apologies to the Russian Language). Lenin, was of course, the real radical. Just as Harper pins definitions on two parties, in exactly the reverse of what they are making himelf seem like "one of us" while liberals live in ivory towers. ( I think Paul Martin sold off the Ivory Towers LOL).

TF

P.S. I missed this during the campaign, but Alec Baldwin called Sarah Palin "Bible Spice" Love it!