[MD] Quality decline in U.S. politics

[Khaled Alkotob]

Hi Ron

Great quote.


When modernity was starting to take hold in the middle east, certain
leader did see that Religion had no place in government, and some went to
extreme to eradicate it.

Kamal Pasha in Turkey, the Shah in Iran, Abdel-Nasser in Egypt, Even
Hussein in Iraq.

Unfortunately these were dictators, and we supported them and still
support them. Currently Egypt and Pakistan are on that list. When the
masses go looking for a rallying point, they don't have the Magna Carta
to tread, they don't have the declaration of independence to draw from,
they have their own clergy and their own books to draw from. Presto, a
rallying call against the intruders. You also see the same thing
happening here in the US. The intelligent design debate, the one nation
under God pledge of allegiance and the 'In God We trust".


http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm

and here is the link to when it was added to the currency
http://www.treas.gov/education/fact-sheets/currency/in-god-we-trust.shtml


The US reached the height of its Golden Age between 1954 and 1958. The
fundamentalism you see is but a last ditch effort to hold on to something
of days gone by.

khaled