Harry Hope
2009-08-15 15:54:04 UTC
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9213
Sat, 08/15/2009
A Tale of Two Nations:
By Mark Karlin
The Civil War may have been won by the North, but in truth the South
never emotionally conceded.
The Town Hall mobs, the birthers, the teabaggers are all part of that
long line of coded agitators for the notions of white entitlement
and conservative values.
Of course, this conservative viewpoint values cheap labor and unabated
use of natural resources over technological and economic innovation.
It also and this is its hot molten core fundamentally believes
that white people are born with a divine advantage over people of
other skin colors, and are chosen by God to lead the heathen hordes.
That a Town Hall mob is itself a heathen horde would never occur to
the economically stressed whites who listen to the lies of the likes
of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs.
Lies that confirm an emotionally reinforcing worldview however
heinous become truths for those in psychological need of feeling
superior and chosen.
Of course, when you start stirring the pot of race -- in order to
preserve the status quo of entrenched power and wealth you emerge
with a stew of hate boiling over and ready to explode into
full-fledged violence.
The other America, the North led by Lincoln stayed true to the
values of the Constitution, the one ratified in Philadelphia, and the
Declaration of Independence.
The America that Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh speak so nostalgically
yearn for is a bait and switch: what they want is the Constitution and
old-fashioned white entitlement values of the Confederacy.
(Although most of the right wing media hate talkers are really just in
it for the money, paid to divert whites squeezed in the middle to
blame the others (minorities and immigrants) for their financial
problems and not the corporations who are stealing their jobs, or the
wealthy who are stealing their incomes due to tax cuts for the rich
and legal investment schemes that amount to looting.)
It doesnt have to be this way.
The corporations and K Street lobbyists are pulling the emotional
strings and simmering frustrations of mostly Republicans, in order to
intimidate already in the tank elected officials in D.C. (and
regulatory agencies),
and the re-emergence of the Confederate nation from time to time is
meant to cause chaos, confusion and distraction from the vital issue
facing America: who controls it, corporations and entrenched wealth or
the American people?
So, as the health care reform debate gets bogged down in the tale of
two nations, as the stoking of the coals of hate and division (by the
right wing media on behalf of the corporations who own the outlets and
corporate America in general) reach a frenzied dangerous peak,
the issues of importance to the Americans loyal to the Constitution
ratified by the last state in 1788 fall victim to a sideshow.
Racism and the Neo-Confederacy are like a thermometer.
The big media companies and their GOP allies can turn it up or down.
Right now, they have it up full blast.
They are betting the house on wounding Obamas presidency, just as
they did to Bill Clinton.
In Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell is on exhibit.
It has a wide permanent crack and can never be rung again as it will
likely shatter in two.
Is this the fate of America?
Wasnt this supposed to be resolved by Lees surrender in 1865?
Apparently not.
_____________________________________________________
Let 'em screech. They too shall pass.
Harry
Sat, 08/15/2009
A Tale of Two Nations:
By Mark Karlin
The Civil War may have been won by the North, but in truth the South
never emotionally conceded.
The Town Hall mobs, the birthers, the teabaggers are all part of that
long line of coded agitators for the notions of white entitlement
and conservative values.
Of course, this conservative viewpoint values cheap labor and unabated
use of natural resources over technological and economic innovation.
It also and this is its hot molten core fundamentally believes
that white people are born with a divine advantage over people of
other skin colors, and are chosen by God to lead the heathen hordes.
That a Town Hall mob is itself a heathen horde would never occur to
the economically stressed whites who listen to the lies of the likes
of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs.
Lies that confirm an emotionally reinforcing worldview however
heinous become truths for those in psychological need of feeling
superior and chosen.
Of course, when you start stirring the pot of race -- in order to
preserve the status quo of entrenched power and wealth you emerge
with a stew of hate boiling over and ready to explode into
full-fledged violence.
The other America, the North led by Lincoln stayed true to the
values of the Constitution, the one ratified in Philadelphia, and the
Declaration of Independence.
The America that Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh speak so nostalgically
yearn for is a bait and switch: what they want is the Constitution and
old-fashioned white entitlement values of the Confederacy.
(Although most of the right wing media hate talkers are really just in
it for the money, paid to divert whites squeezed in the middle to
blame the others (minorities and immigrants) for their financial
problems and not the corporations who are stealing their jobs, or the
wealthy who are stealing their incomes due to tax cuts for the rich
and legal investment schemes that amount to looting.)
It doesnt have to be this way.
The corporations and K Street lobbyists are pulling the emotional
strings and simmering frustrations of mostly Republicans, in order to
intimidate already in the tank elected officials in D.C. (and
regulatory agencies),
and the re-emergence of the Confederate nation from time to time is
meant to cause chaos, confusion and distraction from the vital issue
facing America: who controls it, corporations and entrenched wealth or
the American people?
So, as the health care reform debate gets bogged down in the tale of
two nations, as the stoking of the coals of hate and division (by the
right wing media on behalf of the corporations who own the outlets and
corporate America in general) reach a frenzied dangerous peak,
the issues of importance to the Americans loyal to the Constitution
ratified by the last state in 1788 fall victim to a sideshow.
Racism and the Neo-Confederacy are like a thermometer.
The big media companies and their GOP allies can turn it up or down.
Right now, they have it up full blast.
They are betting the house on wounding Obamas presidency, just as
they did to Bill Clinton.
In Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell is on exhibit.
It has a wide permanent crack and can never be rung again as it will
likely shatter in two.
Is this the fate of America?
Wasnt this supposed to be resolved by Lees surrender in 1865?
Apparently not.
_____________________________________________________
Let 'em screech. They too shall pass.
Harry