IDEOLOGICAL FOSSILS

 

The Rev. Dana Prom Smith, S.T.D., Ph.D. (11/8/2012)

 

          Ideologues who claim they possess the truth are always doomed by their truth because they’re never able to learn anything new.  Just as the Roman Catholic hierarchy found out with Galileo, they were wrong when they thought they were right.  Stuck with their various truths for centuries, they’ve lost credibility as their truths crumbled right down to contraception.  Currently, the Tea Party Republicans are facing the same plight.  They’re stuck with their truth which more or less resembles the religious bigotry and female suppression of the 17^th century.

 

          They’re going to take the Republican Party down to perpetual defeat and fossilization because, in the nature of the case, they can’t learn anything new, possessing the truth as they do.  I’m an old white guy, the ilk the Republicans court, but I like Chinese, Vietnamese, Greek, Thai, Japanese, Soul, Indian, and Mexican food.  Maybe, my Balinese great grandfather tainted my tastes.  The Tea Party’s stuck with meat and potatoes, maybe with a carrot thrown now and then for a little color and celery for excitement.

 

          America ain’t what it was when I was young.  In many ways I miss it, but I relish it now although I find some of it baffling.  As with all ideological fossils, as the Tea Party types and their Republican cohorts see their truth slipping away and even being rejected, they become bitter, a sure sign that they’ve lost.  The rebel yell isn’t a call to arms, but rather the howl of defeat.