Puritans and the Tea Party

I am reading American Colonies, The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor in my endless quest to educate myself about my country. It's a good read if you don't mind a little dryness to your history. It lacks the passion of A People's History of the United States, but in a way that makes it less biased. Our ancestors are still depicted as land hungry mass murderers, but really, can you justify the Native American genocide?

The Puritans certainly felt they had just cause. Before I continued, let me say I've never laughed out loud at a history book before yesterday. My hearty chuckle was derived from the fact that the Puritans' excuse for killing natives and stealing their land is the same excuse many Tea Partier's are using in their denial of global warming. God put the resources on earth, so he must have meant us to use them.

Are the people we want running our country those who think we should place our lives in the hands of a myth? By that same logic, God gave us a brain and the capacity to think, so he must have meant us to use it! But I guess God gave us intelligence so we could create Hummers and dams and plastic water bottles, not to create systems that use our resources to their greatest potential.

On a side note, are you voting November 2nd? It's your duty to vote. If you don't vote you're giving up your voice, and that's more ignorant than Christine O'Donnell's knowledge of our constitution. So get out there, turn off Fox News, and actually read about candidates, what they've done and what they stand for. Read about what has been accomplished in the White House, don't just listen to Glenn Beck's hate speech. Education, people! Facts! Don't condemn our country to a cesspool of ignorance. Don't murder our middle class. Don't vote GOP for god sake!