Senator Lindsey Graham was a guest on Morning Joe (MSNBC). As everyone else in politics, he announced he was a candidate for “President of the United States”. He wants to be the top chicken in the pecking order. In addition to loving everyone but President Obama, he demonstrated his ignorance concerning the Middle East. In doing so, he declared his support for the ISIS strategy as if that was the only group in the Middle East working to promote a worldwide conflict between Muslims and Christians. They feel if there is massive war, they will win as Allah is on their side. Graham has news for them because he knows if we praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. We have God on our side.
Of course, he had to throw in the “we have to protect Israeli” component to pick up a few supporter especially in the Middle East for his view. Viewers who were watching Joe this morning to confirm their ignorance were richly rewarded. Some of us reduced his interview to a litany of items based on hate that demonstrated his ignorance of how his mind works.
I woke up this morning wondering whom my Facebook friends would line up to hate today: Russians, French, Muslims, black people, immigrants, Jews, Canadians, police, as a short list. It turned out my TV friends answered my question. It was all hate for female suppressing, wife killing, burka wearing Muslims—there is enough there for everyone to find something to hate. As always, their hate is baseless, and Lindsey Graham was a poster child for that fact. He is a classic example of what is wrong with democracy. When the majority of voters make an error, they can create a tyranny of sorts. The people of South Carolina, his home state, have a deeply set trend to live in a society guided by hate even more than most. The point is it is not hate for this or that, but the free standing or stand-alone innate sense of hate for something no matter what, which Senator Graham and others have exploited.
A Noble Prize winning author mentioned in his book about thinking that your first thought about something is innate; it is what you truly believe. Everything after that you make up to justify the innate feelings. The first thoughts may or may not be the ones anyone hears you mention but what you say is your introspective analysis is what you express. Senses and Feelings are such things as deeply held fear, gregariousness, hunger, thirst, xenophobia, love, and hate, to name a few of many. One of the strongest innate trends is hierarchy dominance. If you ask any husband who is the head of “his” family you will never know from the answer what the truth is. There is no shame in being hungry, but there is shame in eating more that an equal share. If someone asked you why you ate the last pork chop, it is never because you were still hungry, it is because you thought everyone else had eaten what he or she wanted. Ask why people born and raise in South Carolina hate Yankees, and you will never get a straight answer. Better yet, ask way Lindsey Graham hates Muslims. I have no way of knowing what his reasons might be, but his first response will be he does not hate Muslims. The truth is he wants to be the top chicken in the pecking order; it is in his genes. He wants to be the top chicken in his political party. He wants his political party to be the top chicken in the Untied States. He wants the United States to be the top chicken. His reason for wanting to be the top chicken is because, as he is willing be careful to explain, he is right, and everyone else is wrong. I don’t know about you, but I have never looked at chicken as intellectual.
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