A TX Republican speaks out - A must read

I had no idea this missive would be posted in this forum.  I
was just emailed this afternoon that there were quite a few
responses to it in your forum.  I have never posted here
before.  

Please believe me - I am quite real.  The statements above are
the exact truth.  I did vote for GWB in 2000 - however, the
shine quickly came off - truth be told - with the entire
Florida fiasco and how that was handled in total disregard for
the Constitution.  As a physician - I was personally
distraught with his decision regarding Stem Cells.  But then -
the bottom fell out with the entire situation after 9-11.  

Indeed, that led to months and months of soul-searching. 
After 2 of my patients lost children in the Iraq war - I
became angry.  When the German Hero of War that I alluded to
in my post shared with me his concerns about America - I began
to realize that the bad times were coming.  

I have no way of proving who I am - Believe me - I am as real
as real can be.  I am not a liar.  There are LOTS and LOTS of
pissed off Republicans.

And although many of you have concerns about my beliefs
regarding Sarah Palin and her pregnancy - the facts and the
photos are what they are.  I think the astonishment of her
workers in her office that she was 7 months pregnant reported
by the Anchorage newspaper speaks volumes.  A woman who is 7
months pregnant - in her pre-gravid state - will simply not
look like those pictures at 7 months.  There is something
going on.  What it is - I do not know - but again - the truth
will come forth - one way or the other.

I live here in a suburb of Dallas - I will not reveal any more
personal information than that.  I am an internist.  I take
care of adults and older people.  I work every day with many
many Republican physicians - who are just as pissed as I am. 
Believe me, doctors in this country who are not besotted with
greed - can see the tragedies going on in their patient's
lives - it is one of the few professions with true "in
your face" exposure to reality.  

I am a conservative - in the truest since of the word.  I
believe in individual rights, hard work, the Bill of Rights,
privacy, having the government stay out of your bedroom and
your life.  None of these things are what the current
"conservatives" stand for.  They are not
conservatives - they are fascists - in the truest sense of the
word.  They are also my brothers and sisters - and I have been
trying my best for the past two years - for anyone in my realm
of influence to get the word out.  I feel like the robot in
Lost in Space running around frantically screaming DANGER
DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON.  One of my heroes was Deitrich
Boenhoeffer - he is truly THE MARTYR of the Christian Church
in the 20th Century.  He saw it coming in Germany - and tried
to warn his countryman - he was ignored, persecuted,  and
eventually executed.  I see the same things he discussed in
his countrymen in mine in very frightening parallels (Think
about the behavior of your Democratic Party the past 8 years -
then go look up the story of Hindenburg and Von Pappen and the
advent of the Third Reich - and really really think about it)
- I pray every day that I can get through to people in my
sphere of influence.  I want this country to be the best it
can be - morally, spiritually, economically, and politically. 
It will never be that way with the Fascist/Corporatists in
power.

My 93 year old grandmother lives in Oklahoma.  She was a
teenager when the Dust Bowl struck her little town of
Blackwell.  The town was destroyed in one night.  Her father
shortly thereafter lost everything he had.  They moved to the
nearest big city - Tulsa - and lived in a lean-to shack for
years.  My grandmother and her sisters were farmed out as
housegirls at ages 12,14,15 to wealthy oilmen in Tulsa.  They
worked 80 hours a week - and gave every dime to their parents
who eeked out a living with their younger children in their
lean-to.  My grandmother voted for FDR the first time - and
then was a Democrat most of her adult life - until the era of
Reagan - about the time I came of political age.  Let me make
something perfectly clear to everyone - her conversion to
Republicanism was and remains RELIGIOUS not political.  To
millions of Americans, Jesus had quit being the Jesus of the
Sermon on the Mount - and began to be the Jesus of the Left
Behind mythology.  My fellow Americans - this happened in
MILLIONS of lives all over this country - and continues to be
a powerful powerful issue.  To continue to be a
"Christian" - (My family is a sect called Nazarenes
- what I am saying is true of all Pentecostals, Southern
Baptists, and interdenominational groups) they have to support
Republicanism.  Now - 20 years later - Republicanism and
Rapture Rightism are one in the same.  Unless something
happens to change this trajectory - cataclysmic tragedy will
ensue for this republic.  The horrifying nature of the Sarah
Palin pick - is the worldview she espouses as a member of the
Assembly of God church.  For example, currently the Rapture
Rightists are debating whether or not the Russia Georgia
conflict is the fulfillment of an Old Testament prophecy known
as G0G MAGOG.  I am not going into details - they are surely
online for inquiring minds - but Sarah Palin undoubtedly is
influenced by this (A very scary thought indeed to see her in
charge of anything truly - study the world view of the
Rapturists - it is horrifying to the core of your being to see
her in charge) - and the story does not end well for GOG MAGOG
and the world.  This crap is manufactured by moonbats who have
no formal education or knowledge of theology, classical
languages, philosophy, Christian history or anything. If
anyone had espoused this worldview through all of Christian
history till the 1800s or so - they would have been burned at
the stake.  They pick a few words from this book and a few
from here - and throw it all together - no context, no
history, no reality.  But they are deemed "experts"
by overwhelmingly large numbers of Christians who have never
picked up a book in their lives.  I love these people - they
are my family - my friends - my community here in Texas and
Oklahoma - but they believe they will go to hell if they vote
for a Democrat.   I was converted into reality by massive
exposure during my residency and early career by seeing what
real people were having to go through - and where there was NO
help from the community or the government.  I realized that
the true Jesus would never have gone along with this.  I am
afraid these people as a group are not going to see the light
until a truly cataclysmic event occurs - whether that be
economical, or some kind of war.  

Well - back to Grandma - I spoke with her this week - things
in Oklahoma are not going well - lots of people losing their
homes - lots of people in the shelters.  I think Grandma is
getting a wake up call ( I really wish there were more people
around who grew up in the Depression - they know firsthand
what 10 or 15 years of fascism/corporatism can do to a
society).  Grandma - the FDR democrat has voted for
Republicans for the past 20 years - Grandma informed me - that
the $300,000 outfit really pissed her off.  Her exact words -
ANY MAN WHO WOULD ALLOW HIS WIFE TO DO THAT WHEN PEOPLE ARE
LOSING THEIR HOMES LIKE THIS IS A PUNK.  But more revealing -
the continued comments of Palin about community organizers
really really bothered her.  "Son, if it was not for
community organizers - my family would have died."  She
then announced under no circumstances would she vote for
McCain.  I am not being racist - but it will be very very hard
for Grandma to vote for a black man ( along with McCain's POW
mental health issue - yet another unspoken issue in this cycle
is racism - "elitism" "uppity" my ass
these people are racist ) but I am going to work and pray and
work more to get her to do it.  

I am real - I am deeply concerned and I am a conservative
Republican - in a party that does not want me anymore.

Dagan MD
Dallas TX