Warning: A powerful, dangerous group is threatening America. This group is doing everything in its power to make it easier for the most vicious people in our country to get their hands on the most lethal military weapons. This group has even gone so far as to defend and support the right for potential terrorists to own assault weapons - people potentially menacing enough to find themselves on the Homeland Security No Fly List. That's right, folks - the same list that was created to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy of 9/11.
This same radical group, which champions the so-called constitutional right of the most dangerous among us to carry weapons designed solely for killing as many as possible as quickly as possible, is also actively working to keep those they don't like from exercising our most fundamental American right - the right to vote. The wicked un-American message from this group is that they want to make it as easy as possible to own weapons even more powerful than many used by other radical groups while making it as difficult as possible for those who might disagree with them to exercise Americans' most fundamental democratic right to vote.
They are coming after women, too. That's right, these cowardly radicals who defend the rights of terrorists have done everything in their considerable power to roll back the perfectly legal and constitutionally protected right of women to obtain abortions. They are even threatening women by making it a potentially dangerous and arduous task to obtain basic women's health care and contraception. My, my, how they've demonized and harmed the mothers, sisters and daughters of America at the most vulnerable and difficult time in their lives. This radical group seems to have no shame when it comes to women. They will lie, commit fraudulent propagandizing, even stand by and do nothing when the most wicked and unhinged among them murder and destroy American women in cold blood. While championing their dangerously intolerant views, they seek to destroy the very founding principle of America: freedom of religion and the separation of church and state. Their most popular and vitriolic leader wants to clamp down on Muslims in a myriad of unconstitutional and incendiary ways. In their stronghold territories these radicals are trying to re-write the very schoolbooks our children read to emphasize Christian beliefs.
This dastardly bunch supports policies that mock the very words etched in stone on our nation's greatest symbol of freedom: The Statue of Liberty. Oh how these nefarious radicals would like to erase the words that have made America the proud and great melting pot, the shining example to the rest of the world: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free." No, no, no, these radicals want to keep even the most carefully vetted "wretched refuse" out of the richest country in the world by any means possible.
This group has largely achieved its ends in the most underhanded, un-American ways. History has witnessed the Big Lie, but now these radicals have perfected an insidious new twist: the Many Small Lies. These are also repeated as frequently as possible even in the face of incontrovertible evidence refuting the lies.
Perhaps even worse than the un-American and un-democratic impulses and policies of these radicals are their insidious efforts to roll back and destroy modern thought and science. Many of them want to turn us thousands of years back to Biblical and even pre-Biblical times. They deny and seek to destroy established, proven science embraced by virtually the entire rest of the world. They are willing to let the world itself die in favor of their radical, backward views. These alarmingly radicalized operatives go by many names. The most radical have taken over previously reasonable American political groups such as the Republican Party. Some call them the Tea Party. They usually prefer to call themselves conservatives. The old labels don't seem to reflect the increasingly right wing and even fringe beliefs espoused by them. The terrified GOP establishment has essentially succumbed to the most radical elements among them and all of its many presidential candidates happily compete to prove their radical bona fides. Our country is being threatened by these dangerous radicals in our midst. The world is being threatened. We must oppose them now before it's too late.
Ted Fox is a New York based author and music manager. Follow him on Twitter.