The Willfully Ignorant and American History (hopefully not America IS History)

I know so many people that are willfully ignorant of what is going on in our world. It's shameful that there are so many that are afraid of what it is that makes the situation we live in. They just don't want to know.

Let's go back in time a wee bit. Remember the 35th President? John Fitzgerald Kennedy. One of the greats. One of the most controversial. For the many that mourned his death in 1963, there were an equal number that celebrated it.

Beyond that, let's think of the one thing he did during his presidency that made him truly great: being able to navigate around a nuclear (pronounced new-clear, like clean glass) holocaust.

When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev parked nuclear (remember the pronunciation please) missiles in Cuba it put the world on high alert that things.... wait a minute....

Let's go back a little further...

Eisenhower. He gave us the Interstate System, carried on Roosevelt's New Deal, especially Social Security, endorsed Richard Nixon's campaign against Kennedy, and gave a speech stating, "We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method..." at the end of his presidency. He also heightened fear worldwide of apocalyptic nuclear (Um, you know...) demise.

So back to Kennedy: Just like Obama, should he win the presidency, Kennedy was placed in a world full of hate and ready to kill. Now the players back then were two rather enormous ones. What those two players in the game could have done, however, was bring for the end of our existence, and the beginning of the end was sitting 90 miles away from US soil.

Fast forward to today. I like guns. Guns are cool. Guns are also dangerous. Guns kill. That is their destiny. They can have other purposes, like being a deterrent, but lets face reality: the purpose of a gun is to shoot living things. Killing is never cool. Even when you harvest an animal for food. That animal gives it's life so that you may further yours. It has helped you live in it's death. That is something that must be respected. That is sacred and guns are never toys.

Sarah Palin shoots wolves, the beautiful, proof of evolution creatures that they are, by the pack from helicopters, paid for by tax dollars, for the purpose of shooting them. Nothing more. There is no other purpose, just to kill them... from a helicopter. She does this with moose also.

Now, have you ever seen a moose in the wild? They are magnificent creatures. In their natural environment they are a beautiful thing to behold. All animals in the wild are. The wild is beautiful. The animals that live in the wild are beautiful too. For anyone who says they are of god and live for god, then destroy god's creation for sport shows what incredible hypocrites they are, but they write they're own twisted rules and are lacking in both conscience and morals; the very morals they claim to espouse.

Back to 1962. Kennedy could have sent forces into Cuba. Castro was already not a friendly. There was that whole Bay of Pigs thing. Instead of calling people part of an axis of evil and planning attacks however, Kennedy showed restraint. He showed patience. He called Khrushchev and they discussed the matter as leaders, and as gentlemen. Both men were ready, of course, to take whatever action necessary should the worst arise. The end result though was the USSR removing the weapons and NATO making inspections to be sure the threat of global annihilation was over. Patience. Understanding your enemy's perspective. Not overreacting. That saved us from extinction.

McCain is ready to pull the trigger. He is no military leader. He was very near to last in his class at the Naval Academy. His ignorance could be part of humanity's downfall.

Palin wants to pull the trigger. She can't even answer simple questions placed to her. She depends on her attractiveness to further her personal, destructive, agenda.

The McCain/Palin bill holds two people that have more potential to end the world than any leaders of this nation previously in the race for the most important office in the world.

Many who are willfully ignorant, on a want to believe that the leader of our country would work in the best interest of the people that make up this nation are woefully inadequate in their ability to process information. They are willing sheep. They are the complacent pall bearers of our doom.