Thursday Dose

As the folderol over healthcare and President Obama in general continues, I am more convinced than ever that America is the shameful home of a consistently growing number of bigots, racists and non-Christian religious fanatics.

In all truth, bigotry and racism has been scarcely banked for decades and is now coming fiercely to the fore disguised as displeasure with the Obama administration and its plans to benefit the American people.

How can anyone who wishes death on the President or dismisses the plight of others profess to be a true Christian, or a real American for that matter?

• Disabled Woman Heckled at Health Meeting: A woman in a wheelchair is heckled at a New Jersey town hall meeting on health care while she expresses her concerns over health costs. [Video].

The ever-increasing desensitization, selfishness and priggishness of the Republican party is embarrassing. Is it any wonder that America is mocked and derided by other nations as the right-wing displays its true colors in full view of the world?

The days of rational discussion and logical debate between parties are over. The divide has always been there, but since President Obama's election the gulf has increased beyond repair. None of the divisiveness is President Obama's fault, however. He has tried repeatedly to bring members of the right-wing into ongoing issues but they will have none of it. It has become par for the course.

In my own life, I have a high disregard and distrust for people who squirm out from the right-wing woodwork. They cannot be trusted, frankly. I will not make room for the intolerant, the bigoted or the self-serving. Part of this stems from my own experience with people, while most of it comes from the aforementioned unbridgeable gap between political parties that does not allow for reasonable discourse.

The latest propaganda about President Obama's upcoming speech to schoolchildren being presented as nothing more than indoctrination is another sign of the instability and massive paranoia of the right wing.

Where are the lucid voices of the conservative political party? They are lost in a sea of hatred, bigotry and self-serving maneuvers where working together for the common good is not even an option.