Saturday, April 25, 2015

Bobby Jindal Vows To Remain A Bigoted, Hateful Jackass, Louisiana Be Damned


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/23/1379702/-Bobby-Jindal-Vows-To-Remain-A-Bigoted-Hateful-Jackass-Louisiana-Be-Damned?detail=email

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Bobby Jindal, Republican Governor of Louisiana and delusional Presidential wannabee, doubles down on his hatred in an Op-Ed in today's New York Times, declaring war on anyone who opposes discrimination, and making it clear he doesn't give a damn what the consequences are for the people of his state, whether they're being discriminated against, or whether they're the ones doing the discriminating:
In Indiana and Arkansas, large corporations recently joined left-wing activists to bully elected officials into backing away from strong protections for religious liberty. It was disappointing to see conservative leaders so hastily retreat on legislation that would simply allow for an individual or business to claim a right to free exercise of religion in a court of law.
This is the sound of bigotry dying. It makes a loud squeal of victimhood and wraps itself in the Constitution:
Our country was founded on the principle of religious liberty, enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Why shouldn’t an individual or business have the right to cite, in a court proceeding, religious liberty as a reason for not participating in a same-sex marriage ceremony that violates a sincerely held religious belief?
That is what Indiana and Arkansas sought to do. That political leaders in both states quickly cowered amid the shrieks of big business and the radical left should alarm us all.
 Jindal has some real zingers here, some of which appear to have been rather hastily conceived:  
A pluralistic and diverse society like ours can exist only if we all tolerate people who disagree with us.
Isn't that what non-discrimination means?

The same people who think that profit making is vulgar believe that religiosity is folly.
Yes. That's why Jesus overturned all those moneychangers' tables in the Temple.

So, by opposing laws which discriminate and thereby would keep people from consuming products and services, liberals are trying to destroy business?
Jindal's rant is actually quite unhinged, even for a Republican, and although much of it is red-meat pandering most likely intended to shore up his Quixotic quest to be a real "player" in the Republican Party, it ends with a very dark appeal to fascism:
Liberals have decided that if they can’t win at the ballot box, they will win in the boardroom. It’s a deliberate strategy. And it’s time for corporate America to make a decision...
[T]he business community must stand shoulder to shoulder with those fighting for religious liberty...
Those who believe in freedom must stick together: If it’s not freedom for all, it’s not freedom at all. This strategy requires populist social conservatives to ally with the business community on economic matters and corporate titans to side with social conservatives on cultural matters. This is the grand bargain that makes freedom’s defense possible.  Jindal's rant should be read by all who want to understand the true face of the Republican Party and the extremism that drives it.
this guy is desperate to be somebody in a party of nobody's you want to be around the vitriolic juices can be felt through your monitor this is the guy that refuses to give his people ACA or expanded Medicaid these are the governors republicans say would make the better presidents.  this guy is now after a very observant speak calling on his party to stop being the party of stupid has evolved he comes off a the party's stupidest,  sounding like he really need help of the mental kind.

the freedom they speak of is freedom to usurp other American's freedom who they don't agree with more than half the population and they further alienate them daily but feel sure we will all drink the kool aid and see the darkness and vote for them.  he is a lunatic and to say over have of America doesn't believe in freedom only says he doesn't know the meaning of the word.