Reap what you sow

The main article of this blog entry isn't interesting enough for a post, but one of the comments changed my mind.

A conservative senator (doesn't matter which one) ranted about the importance of the Real ID law and the Patriot Act, citing the Book "America Alone" by Mark Steyn. The book claims Europeans have become so decadent they've stopped having enough children. They needed to invite Muslims in to work their factories (yes, Turks worked in the Ford factory in Cologne when I lived there) and those dratted Muslims bred like rabbits. That led to the 2006 riots in France by Muslim youth who couldn't get work (those riots happened) and within a couple decades (say 2020) there were enough Muslims that they voted in Islamic governments across the continent, leaving America alone to fight the Islamist menace. Ho, hum. Another racist diatribe.

Here is where it gets interesting. Before the push for an American Theocracy (about 20 years ago) we had a Constitution and a Bill of Rights that people believed in and America was rather tolerant of different religions (though I suppose I had better add as long as they allowed conservative Christians to maintain a comfortable majority) and there was an understanding of the dangers of tyranny of the majority, even if nobody knew that phrase. But in a time when those documents are being dismantled to give way to a Christian theocracy those that now push for tyranny of the majority are afraid that the wrong group will become the majority and take over and punish them.