today, tomorrow, yesterday?

I follow a Swedish blog about the GLBT people and their struggles in Sweden. It's a really good written blog and the girl writing it is very articulate, smart and also, maybe my favorite part, has a quick and sometimes quite sarcastic mouth.(http://libreb.blogspot.com/)

Here in the U.S. the people setting the standards are the "Christians" who have the "God given right" to tell the rest of us how we're supposed to live, love, vote, and behave. Here it seem impossible to get rid of the " Don't ask, Don't tell". Here teens commit suicide because they can't find acceptance for who they are. With all that said, well, it's easy to see that Sweden is paradise compared to here for all GLBT friends!

Of course I'm not saying that Sweden is a perfect paradise when it comes to gay rights, they need to work on a lot of things, but compared to us in the U.S. they are on a totally different level and 100's of years ahead of us.

We just finished off an election season, where the tea party had a huge success in both the house and in local races all across the nation. They claim they want to take our country back, and I'm wondering how far back exactly? To before the civil rights movement? To before blacks and women got the rights to vote? To before we found out the world wasn't flat?
The further to the right people are politically the more back striving they seem to be.
It amazes me, views I think should be put in a museum showing off how weird it used to be, how uninformed people used to be back in the days of when we started standing on two feet instead of four, those views are the same views the tea party ran on and gained huge success on.

The really pity here is that the progressive and left are caving in. While the right is moving further and further to the right the rest of the field is moving with them.

What used to be moderate republican views are now left wing views. Ronald Reagan that was such a "righty", would in today's republican party probably find himself out on the very edge toward the left.

Can't remember his name, but the last judge leaving the supreme court had been on the bench for many, many years and when he was sworn in he was a republican, and without changing his views during the years he was now considered a left wing guy.

Keeping up with the right going further and further right and frankly also striving further and further backwards makes me fear that maybe today was as far as we will get and maybe from here on we might just be going towards the past instead of facing the future.

Scary, but quite possible...