There are those in this world, especially right here in the USA, that want to place blame on socialism, abortion and gay marriage/rights, et al as the fall of society and reasons as to why tragedy hits places like Haiti. Socialism, communism, and capitalism are not evil in and of themselves. PEOPLE, we live in a human-filled, greed-filled world where sinful systems like greedy banks, consumerism and scare tactics like those of the GOP and Christian Right use to beat people into false submissions and manipulate them for votes and money. The greedy people who run these systems are sinful. When money becomes way more important than the well-being of others we have a huge problem. We do not live in a vacuum!
Any place that has socialism and gay marriage/rights has not fallen off the face of the earth. Europe has been thriving for years on Socialism. After living in the UK for two years and experiencing socialized medicine, i think they have a pretty good thing going on over there! i am so sick of the GOP calling Obama a socialist. What do they think Medicare and Medicaid and public schools are anyways? They are a form of socialism and we have not fallen off the face of the earth either. It's simply a way to cry wolf, keep control and manipulate what they want. It reminds me of '1984' when the government always kept rumours of war being broadcast.
The countries that have gay marriage/rights seem to be doing just fine! No one has infected anyone with their queerness and yet heterosexual divorce is continually on the rise as well as marital infidelities!
Tragedies hit places like Haiti for several of reasons. One, we live in a natural world where natural disasters just take place. Two, we don't take care of the earth as we should so our humanity takes its toll on the earth's resources and pushes it to its limits. Third, corrupt governments use greed to further their own agendas rather than looking out for their own people and building sustainable societies with first world resources. Poverty and greed seem to be strange bedfellows that often go hand in hand.
The fall of society will come from these sinful societal entities if it is going to fall. These sinful systems have been around for thousands of years and society has yet to fall. So, i see the GOP and Christian Right throwing out red herrings and a straw man argument.i really do not believe that society will fall but the earth may one day give out and take it's last breath. What then, are we to do?
