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Heartless 'Religious' Bastards of the Day: Mike Huckabee and Bryan Fischer

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Killgore Trout12/14/2012 5:32:35 pm PST

re: #217 Shiplord Kirel

We need some “Nixon to China” or “Sadat to Jerusalem” level outside-the-box thinking on this.

Very much agreed.

Maybe Obama should personally challenge Alex Jones, Wayne LaPierre, and Rush Limbaugh to a public debate, individually or all at once. All at once would be more fun, but the result would be the same in any case: Nutcase idiots humiliated for their refusal to participate or, better yet, exposed as jibbering frauds in front of a national audience.
The “adult” GOP would object, of course, on the grounds that these people are insignificant gadflies. That lie could be quickly exposed with poll results and concrete examples of their influence.

Very much no.
I agree that we do need to update common sense gun control issues, public mental health and a whole host of other problems. I think most people would agree with this. However, in situations like this we see the same old tired mantras. Activists wheel out their pet issues to accuse and assign blame (atheism, religion, wingnuts, moonbats, gun control, not enough guns, war on terror, big government, etc) in the hopes that some emotional response will sweep the country. It’s not going to happen. Notice how everybody today is blaming the same people they were blaming yesterday? It’s also the same people they’ll be blaming for whatever goes wrong tomorrow. The NRA and GOP are a problem but they are not the problem. The real problem is our tendency towards easy answers the the desire to satisfy our emotional need to feed our preconceived pet causes. Nobody’s thinking “outside the box”, the boxes are the problem.