Horses of a different persuasion

 

I wish to make a pronouncement, several, in fact.

I’m not a liberal.

I’m not a conservative.

I’m an independent voter with fiscally conservative leanings.

I think Big Government is too big and the only ones who can change that won’t because they feel powerless. (Hint: You, me, the voters.)

I am for civil rights. Heck, I love civil rights, especially when they pertain to me.

And, I distain nutcases regardless of party affiliation, political bent, or something important like … hairstyle.

One of the biggest nut jobs around today is Glen Beck. He is a Rush Limbaugh clone, although a skinnier, shadow version of the first well-known angry conservative pundit. Beck likes to take folks to the lick-log for disbelieving the political pabulum he spews on his television and radio shows. He seems to have a new target for this righteous indignation every day or two, and sometimes the target does not really seem to matter.

He, along with screamin' liberal-leaner Al Sharpton, is the King of Righteous Indignation and wears his divisive colors proudly. For example, Beck recently stated he will no longer use the Google search engine because of what he claimed were the site’s ties to government agencies and its so-called involvement in the recent turmoil in Egypt.

Say, huh?

Spread that manure a little more smoothly, if you please.

Seriously, the man said, “There’s a strange thing going on with this search engine and our government and we all have to choose who we do business with.” (Without splitting too many fine hairs, the correct grammar for that statement would be …”to choose with whom we do business.”)

Personally, I like Google. I have used it for years and not once have I felt it was being used to overthrow this or any other government. Social media is a tool … and some people use it to push their personal agenda. So?

Not to let the Google matter drop after one stupid comment, Beck explained further: “I’m really not sure that I want my search engine involved in government overthrows, good or bad.”

It’s a major jump from scary to stupid, but Beck did it with aplomb, supreme confidence and graceless energy.

The devoted followers and believers of jaw-droppers like Beck (those of conservative AND/OR liberal bent) are sheep, being led down a path of ridiculousness while trying to fervently embrace philosophical kinship with minor celebrities and larger-than-life demagogues. Beck, Sharpton and the rest of the political preachers of political and ideological faith are not visionaries; they are entertainers doing what they do not for principles but for money.

God protect us from the debilitating influence of the Glen Becks and Al Sharptons of this world. But, then again, if He was even interested in this political mish-mash philosophy mess, He would already done something about it.