No More Screaming Masses

The insanity among the far right has taken a new low. The Republicans are helping to organize a "Keep Your Kid Home From School Day" to protest President Obama's September 8 address to schoolchildren on the importance of studying hard and getting a good education. Conservatives say he's just trying to indoctrinate them to his political beliefs.
Jim Greer, the chairman of the Florida Republican Party condemns Obama's speech as an "invasive abuse of power," and as an attempt to "indoctrinate America's children
to his socialist agenda." He says that "the idea that school children across our nation will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president, is not only infuriating, but goes against beliefs of the majority of Americans, while bypassing American parents."
There are many things that bother me about this nonsense and some of it has to do with Democrats who complained about President Bush making a similar speech to students. The Democrats raised hell saying he was using tax money for a campaign gimmick. But this current absurdity goes way beyond that. These clowns are telling us that it is socialism for the president of the United States to use the bully pulpit to tell kids at the opening of the new school year to stay in school and work hard to learn and advance. No, their parents want them to avoid the speech and stay stupid like their parents. This has been an absolutely terrible summer. True ugliness has not only come to the surface around our country, it has erupted. Ugliness and ignorance and hate and pure stupidity and a lot of it is being orchestrated by people who are not at all stupid or ignorant, but very, very smart and they have a very harmful agenda that is not at all beneficial to our country.
All summer long we have heard people screaming Nazism, fascism, socialism, taking away our country, destroying our Constitution and now the president of the United States is trying to hurt our children by trying to encourage them to stay in school and study and work hard and learn.
It is time for all Americans with clear heads and rational minds who have a desire to find intelligent, workable solutions to the problems facing our nation, solutions that will incorporate the best ideas from a variety of sources, to shut out all the shouters, all the name-calling, all the fear-mongering and let those who engage in those tactics know that those tactics will not work and will no longer be accepted or tolerated.