Barefoot and Pregnant

I've been looking at various editorials over the past few days. I've also been looking at a couple of electoral college maps. The more I read, and the more I research, the more I think that I've got it figured out.

It used to be common practice to keep "womenfolk" barefoot and pregnant.

When I read commentaries about various programs and beliefs espoused by the "ruling party" I am terrified by the fact that we are apparently returning to this philosophy. Anti-gay legislation, anti-women's rights legislation, anti-education legislation, government forced religion, removal of sex education from the schools, elimination of birth control education. These are just of few of the tools being used to keep us "dumb and on the farm".

It seems to me that we are falling into a pattern that will be very hard to break. The government is currently dumbing us down. We are being pushed into a mentality straight out of "East of Eden". We climbed out of the twentieth century only to be pushed back into the nineteenth. Now, here comes the really scary part. The people that we are creating are the ones that will continue to vote for this type of mind set.

Don't get me wrong. I am fully in favor of each and every one of us being able to think or worship as he / she chooses. That apparently makes me in the minority. This country was founded on the principle that each of us has the right to choose.

We are losing that choice.