Thank the Gods! I am tired of all the white racists. I will be glad when they will all die out--every last one . My dad, a Native American, was forced to live outside of the city because his family was "half-breed" (in the year 1896). Still, to this day a Native American wouldn't make it running for President. Whites would vote for a half-dead senile old white man with half a brain, than vote for a Native born.

Avery Moore

Some. Meaning 'all'?

A stirring view above of hopeful progress towards a new dawn.

OK, enough. The first comment below the lead kicks you back to reality, and political reality really is quite unpleasant of late.

If the reaction to a recent Huffington Post item is any indication, the social schizophrenia and irrational scapegoating experienced by so many is spreading.

The story: A Christian arrived in China with 300 Bibles. All were confiscated by authorities.

So was there stateside outrage, rallies, marches on the Capitol that something as innocuous as a shipment of Bibles was deemed illegal?

Well, no. In fact many comments in Huffpo were extraordinarily hostile to the Christian. China had made the right decision. Proselytizing itself should be a criminal offense and as in China the religious should be jailed in perpetuity.

Such ideas resemble those made earlier by three groups.

In the lead up to Franco's dictatorship violently anti-religious partisans wanted to see priests and nuns lynched or shot by freedom-loving firing squads. That was one group.

Another was Beijing's unholy choir which denounced those foul-minded devil-worshipping, evil doers incarnated into sublimely pacifist Tibetan monks and nuns. Torture and kill them was the medicine prescribed. Them and Falun Gong - a dangerous exercise group.

The third was Stalin's anti-opposition choir which, on cue, denounced any formal social organization as a threat to domestic tranquility - off you go to the camps traitor!

Where were these comparisons being made?

In a representative democracy thought to be a beacon of religious tolerance, justice, and balanced cranial capacity.

Many comments assessed Religion's contribution to reality as owning principal responsibility for much of history's atrocities. Proof of this? Ignorance of any contrary theory.

If the Prince's bicycle collides with someone, it's the vehicle's fault, not the driver's.

It starts to become clear what the underlying issue may be - The religious community and minorities 'stole' the elections of 2000 and 2004 while the Left napped.

And Nader. Nader sabotaged the whole process by causing the loss of Florida. In good conscience and often trembling in isotopic rage zealous political fundamentalists demand that Badbad Ralph somehow be prevented from running again. If Ron Paul runs against McCain, and withers the right's vote, that's OK.

It's not surprising that people who write software often mistrust supermarket cash receipts. There are still spectacularly software-ignorant people in America. They simply do not understand how easily a computer can assign thousands of votes to communities where only hundreds of voters live.

But let no one dare talk about esoteric geek stuff like if-then-else branching and how to rig a nose-count so that a thumping loss becomes a win narrow enough to look plausible.

The inclusion of untenable candidates like Nader in a democratic process is just wrong wrong wrong in a representative democracy, based on free votes. Those credulous minorities and dim-bulb Christians deserve personal responsibility for a fixed horse race.

Sure.

What the religious did in plain sight was organize, identify themselves as an abused and ignored group, and seek political recognition by offering a trade off to pols - you do some stuff we like - we'll deliver a bloc of votes. We'll be back.

In short - they repeated exactly what trade unions did. Minorities have the same option, so does the left. The difference is that the left has chosen to scapegoat rather than expand their base by playing the same arduous and disciplined game. They are lazy.

For too many on the left somehow utopian belief in God's earthly paradise is more irrational and dangerous than belief in an oratorio-based political utopia guided by charismatic chronic liars and pickpockets.