by Len Hart, The Existentialist CowboyA nation in which about one half of the population openly pines for the murder of the only fairly elected president in some 9 years is finished. The writing is on the wall. The America that most of us loved is dead. Tragically --it will not rest in peace, rather, infamy! Who killed America but bigoted idiots throughout the GOP rank and file? who think themselves rich when in fact they --like the rest of us --are consigned to relative poverty while just one percent of the total population enjoys more wealth than that of 95 percent of the rest of us combined! It was all by design, begun with the Presidency of Ronald Reagan about whom GOP-types, this utterly failed mentality, these endemically criminal psychopaths, swooned: "He made us feel good about ourselves!"
Not only have the Wall Street Journal and the hosts of Fox News been issuing their usual dark mutterings, but a new slogan has began appearing on bumper stickers, t-shirts, and even teddy bears: "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8."That psalm reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."Maddow seemed mainly amused by the teddy bears, but when she turned for comment to former right-wing evangelical leader Frank Schaeffer, he emphasized that in a religious context "it means something more threatening.""The situation that I find genuinely frightening right now," Schaeffer explained, "is that you have a ramping up of biblical language ... and what it's coalescing into is branding Obama ... as 'not us.' ... Now he joins the ranks of the unjust kings of ancient Israel ... who should be slaughtered, if not by God then by just men."--Former evangelist: Religious right is ‘trawling for assassins’'Missing America' is about mourning the loss of ideals --freedom, equality, Democracy, inherent rights, self-evident truths, the promise that this government, this nation, unlike the monarchies of Europe, recognized in its founding document that people are sovereign. Alas! None of that means shit to psychopathic idiots who have never bothered to read the U.S. Constitution but are, nevertheless, experts!
Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush's conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history.To this ilk I say: you have never been interested in American ideals but those you could exploit. You have never loved this country but for what you could milk it for! You have never paid but lip service to the U.S. Constitution which you wield like a weapon when you like it but a 'goddamned piece of paper' when you don't! You have nothing meaningful to say to me so just shut the fuck up!
We have had small-scale theocracies in North America before -- in Puritan New England and later in Mormon Utah. Today, a leading power such as the United States approaches theocracy when it meets the conditions currently on display: an elected leader who believes himself to speak for the Almighty, a ruling political party that represents religious true believers, the certainty of many Republican voters that government should be guided by religion and, on top of it all, a White House that adopts agendas seemingly animated by biblical worldviews. --Kevin Phillips, How the GOP Became God's Own Party, Sunday, April 2, 2006
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Here is what I am musing over and truly find quite confusing. I have a good friend and we have known each other for more than 17 years. He is Chinese and was born in Korea. He is the President (elected three years in a row now) of the South Korean Chapter in the US, in 51 states. Now, all these people come to America to be free and American, and yet the country is riddled with this idea of every faction finds a way to separate and here we are a nation of unAmericans, which brings me to the next subject of my friend Jen Tai.
He loves America. He hates China. He does not want China to become powerful in America AT ALL.
He also loves me to pieces as an American female who is his peer and lived in Asia so I am sensitive to how the energy of Asia feels.
Yet, he is totally into this President of the So. Korean Chapter in the US, and that was where he was born, but is Chinese.
Go figure why we're in a confused state of "What is America?"
eh, or am I missing something here!
Biloxi - I'll post at your facebook, too.
That is probably one of the saddest vids I have seen for awhile. Not because I don't delve into the mire a little too often, but because so much of that is part of my life.
I look back at the Canada, and US, back then, when we were naive and really thought we could change the world if by nothing other than our sheer numbers. I look at those activities, the hippy times, the exuberance, and I see delusions, and/or hopes that were warped by the social manipulations we did not see coming.
I watched those Watts riots and saw them differently than I did at the time. Then, a naive early teen, I saw the downtrodden blacks fighting for equality. Just now I saw something entirely different and it was not good.
Watching the beating of Rodney King, that was such huge news that the police were so violent, let alone to a black man. Now, almost no one thinks twice when someone is tazered and dies. Oh, it might blip on the news for a few days, but then... poof it is gone!
To know now that the heroes of our time were more often than not paid schmucks on a mission to divert and waylay our lives is a miserable lesson to learn. And almost to late. To learn that our innocence was, and still is, our downfall, is a horrible thing to say.
But you have to grow up and face the music ~ hey even that was not what we thought it was!
Yanno, there are times I just want to hate the perpetrators of this situation, but I cannot for to do so would be giving them what they want ~ my soul.
Noor al Haqiqa said...
That is probably one of the saddest vids I have seen for awhile. Not because I don't delve into the mire a little too often, but because so much of that is part of my life. ...there are times I just want to hate the perpetrators of this situation, but I cannot for to do so would be giving them what they want ~ my soul.
I hear you.
I am descended of Native Americans whom I believe would have been better stewards of this continet.
I am also descended of hard working Irish and Scottish immigrants who only wanted a chance.
I have often tried to fix a date on which the country turned! What was the tipping point? When did we lose our grip?
I often recall the moment, in Houston's Jones Hall, when amid thunderous applause Dan Rather introduced himself to a news conference attended by the media executives from across the nation. "Are you running for something," Nixon, already besieged by Watergate, asked!
"No, Mr President" Rather responded, "Are you?"
But it wasn't Watergate! We overcame and rose above Watergate. It was an old 'Western' in which the 'good guys' won. They did win, didn't they?
It was Reagan!
It was Reagan who stole the wealth of the nation and gave to elites who did not deserve it and did nothing to earn it. The money changers were not driven from the temple. It was stolen.
It was Reagan who pandered to ignorance, bigotry, hate, and prejudice. It was Reagan who made psychopaths feel good about it. It was Reagan who sold out American industry and labor. And it is because of trends begun by Reagan that the U.S. is now on the very bottom of the CIA's 'World Fact Book' with the world's largest Negative Current Account Balance, formerly called the 'balance of trade deficit'. It was Reagan and the psychopathic ilk who followed him blindly over the cliff. It was the neo-imperialists, parasites upon the Military-Industial Complex, who dared dream of empire in the PNAC document: REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENSES Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century. It was these neo-imperialists who pined for a new a 'catalyzing event', a new 'Pearl Harbor', that would be exploited to justify a campaign of aggressive wars, in fact, crimes punishable by death even under U.S. Codes, Title 18, Section 2441.
America might still change but on after it has had a change of heart and mind.
Until wealth inequality is addressed, the media returned to the people and the imperialists tried for war crimes and mass murder, nothing will change for the better. A drunk who will not recognize his problem will remain a drunk, a 'druggie' a druggie and a thief will steal again if he thinks he can get away with it.
There are no quick fixes and I expected none from Obama. He is just a man --not a miracle worker. And it requires a miracle to save us from the pox that has been visited upon us by the real 'enemy'. It was Pogo who deplored the waste dumped in his swampland home and said: "The enemy is us!"
Len - great post! I will post a link to your commentary in comments on other blogs. I love this paragraph:
Who killed America but bigoted idiots throughout the GOP rank and file? Who think [sic] themselves rich when in fact they --like the rest of us --are consigned to relative poverty while just one percent of the total population enjoys more wealth than that of 95 percent of the rest of us combined! It was all by design and began with the Presidency of Ronald Reagan about whom the GOP-types, this utterly failed mentality, these endemically criminal psychopaths, swooned: "He made us feel good about ourselves!"
Brilliant!
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