Ending divisiveness and division in the age of Obama

For decades now, I have been appalled that the party claiming to be the party of moral values, the party in which evangelical Christians have found a home, a home from which they could attack and demonize others, has fooled so many people. George W. Bush, Tom DeLay, and the radical right wing have slandered and excluded Muslims, liberals, Democrats atheists, homosexuals, African Americans, and Latinos, all human beings, all included in Jefferson's assertion that "all men are created equal." Steven D. says it well:

Our country has been living a nightmare, not so much because we lost our communities, but because one political faction decided to tear them down and rip them apart, fragmenting them into smaller and smaller pieces. One faction which chose to raise the values of greed and individualism and "the one true religion" above all others. To actively exclude people from our national community and our national discourse, and not only to exclude them but to shun them, demonize them, scapegoat them make them seem less than human. It was toxic, it was divisive, it was corrosive and it was demeaning to our nation and our people. Unfortunately, for far too long it has been a winning political strategy.

No more! The election of Barack Obama has given us the opportunity to repair and reunite our multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-faith communities, including everyone in the benefits of citizenship or residency in the United States of America.