"When we give up on education and we move towards training, civilization dies."
C.S. Lewis
This has been quite a week, some may even call it the week of Rick Santorum, because it seems that whenever the television news gets turned on, there he is spewing the far right ideology. Whether it be about women and their access to health care, doing away with public school education, or doing away with the "radical theology" of President Obama in order to get rid of regulation so that we in the USA can earn a buck with the freedom to muck up the earth for man's dominion.
When I first heard Santorum speak my first thought was wow this is a guy who is excited for the US, and then I heard his words as they reverberated in my head, much like a brain does when it experiences a concussion. His ideology is, well in a word, scary. It's almost as if he has come to earth as a time traveler, out of the Dark Ages, chastity belt in hand, ready to ditch public schools in favor of every child being taught at home, remove all regulations so the corporations can abuse the earth, destroying it beond help.
This is not the ideology or theology of a person who has sanity. It is the exact attitude of the Taliban of Afghanistan and Al Quaida. They see things in similar terms, have similar goals and like agendas. The goal is to make you think that living freely cannot be done without the help of God. Not just any God, but the their God and Santorum is the main messenger even though he is not really acceptable in their sight because he is a Roman Catholic, and Roman Catholicism is historically problematic for evangelicals. So Santorum is being used, a tool so to speak of the evangelical right wing, perfect for them because he can present their fundamentalism in a way that is palatable to people who have no ability to discern the reality of the times. Which is why Santorum and his ilk use the standard means of communicating the tough times through the use of the names Adolf Hitler, Nazis and 1930's Germany. He claims the "priorities" of the President are "all out of whack." "A phoney ideal, a phoney theology." Then his surrogate, Alice Stewart says, "These are the radical Islamic policies of this president," a gaffe she admits, a mispoken real thought, a Freudian slip, a real feeling about President Obama. These are the tools of this army of evangelicals, words, subconscious thoughts and ideas placed into the minds of unsuspecting citizens. Read up on this guy, his agenda for America will make America unrecognizable.