Today's GOP - Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American

The moral sickness that seems to be raging through the Republican Party and its Christianist puppeteers like a plague continues to be increasingly depraved. These folks - many of whom wrap themselves in religion and patriotism - strike me as principally motivated by greed, hate for others and a dangerous xenophobia. They make a mockery of the Gospel message and apparently read from Bibles that have been redacted to delete Christ's admonition to the rick to sell all of their goods, give the proceeds to the poor and follow Him. To these selfish and self-centered modern day Pharisees, it's all about amassing as much wealth as one can and giving up nothing to others less fortunate - or even supporting the nation's infrastructure. Greed and keeping as many of one's "things" is the true motivating mindset. Combined with the intolerance - and indeed hatred of anyone different - this face of conservatism and religiosity is a treatise on why one should run fleeing from Christianity. A piece in the misnamed American Thinker looks at the right's growing contempt for the poor and needy. Here's a sampling of the batshitery:

Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery.

Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country -- which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote.

Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn't about helping the poor. It's about helping the poor to help themselves to others' money. It's about raw so-called social justice. It's about moving America ever farther away from the small-government ideals of the Founding Fathers.

Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, political support grew for a guaranteed annual income plan. President Nixon supported the proposal and it came within a hair's breadth of passing Congress in 1972.

The movement was aided by Goldberg v. Kelly, a monstrously wrongheaded piece of judge-made law. In the landmark 1970 decision, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 that the "brutal need" of a poor welfare recipient outweighed society's interest in trying to prevent welfare fraud.

[The] long campaign to bring vast numbers of unproductive people into the political process culminated in the 1993 enactment of the Motor-Voter law. That law turned welfare offices into voter registration centers and encouraged nonprofit groups to conduct registration drives. It also opened the door to massive voter fraud.

The Founders anticipated redistributionist attacks on the Constitution. As Benjamin Franklin supposedly said, "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."

Because of attitudes like this - this total inability to see the common humanity in others - that predominate conservative Christianity, I find it increasingly difficult to have anything to do with Christianity. I most assuredly cannot be a Republican when this mindset seems to totally dominate today's party.