The madness continues, and so will I, every day until it ends.
Michele Bachmann told Sean Hannity the Tea Party members of Congress couldn’t be happier about the shutdown. Really? How can she call herself a Christian? How can anyone who supports what is going on claim that label? It is a disgrace, as Rear Admiral Barry C. Black, Chaplain of the U. S. Senate, eloquently prayed yesterday: “Deliver us from the hypocrisy of attempting to sound reasonable by being unreasonable. Remove the burdens of those who are the collateral damage of this government shutdown…”
I don’t believe all Republicans are like Bachmann. But those who are not, but who are choosing to remain silent are complicit in what she and others are doing. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing,” wrote 18th century philosopher Edmund Burke. Women and men of good will in America today cannot “do nothing” in the face of this crisis. We can at least let our elected representatives know we do not support this shutdown. We can also speak up when we hear someone supporting what the Republicans are doing, even if they are not talking to us. This is no time to be timid!
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Sad it was that your country’s “founding fathers” didn’t include Edmund Burke. He believed that “…Freedom has to be limited, in order that it may be possessed”. That way, there might not have been a 2nd amendment, the “free” market would have been free-er for more than just the top 1%, and perhaps there wouldn’t have been any talk of “cities on hills” – or of castles in the air.
Thanks, Nigel. You added light to the darkness we seem to want to live in on this side of the Pond these days. I suppose Burke would be considered a “communist” by some of our more radical types. It’s for sure they would never understand what he was saying.