This is what i see in our future as a country and as a democracy … the days of Evangelical thinking are numbered. They have a strong voice now because they were organizing and infiltrating and working toward their religious indoctrination while progressive thinkers slept. The wealthy (such as the Koch brothers) saw that this group was an underexploited power and harnessed them on the side of the Republican Party.

Religious demagogues succeeded because they were bankrolled by wealthy Republicans with a mission. Meanwhile, progressive thinkers kept stopping to smell the roses and sucking their thumbs. We thought we had won the important ideological battles regarding women's rights and that gay rights were fast catching up. We’re playing catch-up now. It's true that the price of freedom, or any hard-won advantage, is constant vigilance.

Well, there is one fact that Right Wing demagogues can’t control and they will, with their insistence that the gleam in every male eye is a person, live to regret it. As our population increases, it will also increase for minorities and soon they will not be minorities. The Republicans, in thrall to these idiots, will not be able to disenfranchise every single voter in the country and that is what they’ll have to do as people of color with their work ethic and their skill (have you noticed how Asians excel in every academic endeavor?) become prominent and succeed.

Yes, I believe we will soon be a nation mostly of color. This bothers me not at all, and not just because I won’t be here to see it. If people honor themselves and their virtues, and become educated, I see no difference in accepting them as equals and in seeing them in positions of leadership. I voted for Obama and I will again because I believe he is light years ahead of repressive Republican ideology.

Watch out you tattooed wonders of the world … your time is dwindling.

Them’s me thoughts.

xx, Teal