The Right, and the SUPER Right...

So, this happened on Twitter today...

Oy Vey...

This, unfortunately, is how A LOT of people see the GOP today. Islamophobes, homophobes, the Westboro-Baptist-Church-kind-of illogical, ideological, old white guys who have VERY backward ideas about US society and foreign policy. These are the kind of people who give the GOP a bad rap, and you know what? I'm sick and tired of it.

Our nation, the United States of America, was pretty much partly founded on the search for religious freedom. And while the Puritans and Pilgrims didn't practice tolerance, the Quakers in Philadelphia did. Colonial Philadelphia soon became known as the "Best Poor Man's Country." You know what that means? Brimming opportunity for ALL (including immigrants w/ different creeds) white (it was colonial times....) men. 

We are a SECULAR nation. I really do appreciate those who want to protect our country from Jihad-ists. I really do. But assuming that all Muslims are extremists? Assuming that non-extremists Muslims who don't take significant action to denounce extremism are "enabling" extremists? That's straight-up Islamophobia.

Not all Muslims are extremists! And clearly, not all extremists are Muslims.

I appreciate your voice and your opinion, but I would like to politely disagree with your aggressiveness against a certain religion you are generalizing into a LUMP. The Super Right, a slim minority (that means well), is now the publicized face of the GOP, giving the rest of us a BAD RAP TO PUT UP WITH 24/7. For Pete's Sake! Not all the GOP is the same.

Oh, and that "respect for both sides of the aisle" thing I was talking about? It goes both ways for Dems and Repubs.

LIBGINAS? Really? Last time I checked, respect was a two-way street... #NoHope

So, I guess I've seen the darker side of the Republican Party, and I've seen that both parties can be absolute, nonsensical nutheads...

Welcome to politics, I guess.