Steven King of Iowa claims that a woman cannot become pregnant if raped against her will and equates rape to dog fights: a sport. He is supported by the Republican Party and has no clue about abortion or a woman’s right to self-determination. The Republican Party wants to broaden the 14th amendment to include the fetus as a person.
The GNP in the USA has consistently gone down while wages became stagnant and unemployment shot up–a trend begun by Ronald Reagan and reached its greatest extreme under George W. Bush. How great of a president was Ronald Reagan?
Robert Vander Plaats of Iowa, with the support of pseudo-scientist Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute, seeks to destroy education in Iowa and follows the diktat of Martin Luther and Adolf Hitler in denying human rights and civil liberties. Evangelical extremists throughout Iowa have flocked to his cause to enshrine the Bible as the source of wisdom, to subordinate women in obedience to men, and has merged tactics with the Denver, IA KKK and neo-Nazis throughout the State of Iowa.
More students are dropping out of high school every day, at an alarming rate. As of 2007 it was one student every 26 seconds. The cause: bad schools, poorly trained teachers, inadequate librarys, and politicians who want to “save money” at the expense of an educated populace, with the Tea Party and GOP taking aim at further dumbing down learning and the advancement of civilization
While the teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution still raises the blood pressure of USA Tea Bag Party Republicans/GOP, climate warming is now the monster of the moment. “Science is bunk” most Tea Baggers brag; and 74% of the GOP in the US Senate concur (http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2011/04/11/gop-is-against-using-science-to-solve-problems/ and http://www.alternet.org/story/150340/ and http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/10/10/how-did-an-entire-political-party-decide-to-reject-climate-change-science/ on the economics of climate change and geopolitics, …
Ignorance in the USA is not “creeping along” but running backwards surpassing all scientific truths and realities in quest of the alma mater narcotic nipple of complacency and wishful thinking—and it is not just in the USA, it is a worldwide contagion. Ignorance breeds hatred and violence as seen in the twin evils of the …
Labor unions have been attacked as un-American in Republican-led states. Labor is accustomed to being belittled, degraded, defamed, but it is because of collective bargaining that workers in the USA enjoy an eight hour work day, a five day work week, unemployment benefits, and more.
Most evangelical christians argue that justifiable murder of abortion providers and homosexuals is the will of their Jesus in their bibles. Among the states leading in hatred and calling for murder in the name of Christ is the state of Iowa, but throughout the USA there have been numerous evangelicals traveling to Uganda to encourage the enactment of state assassinations of gays and lesbians, while in Nigeria they argue for the killing of adulterers. What is unique is that most of these hate-filed groups are members of a pseudo-Christian group known as The Family.