Smelling the Coffee this Week With a Head Cold
Most Americans know the country is not going to change paths. They know this because they know the uprising necessary for remodeling the US economic and political system is not going to happen. Few are willing to hurt their own wallet to change anything.
Americans are content to repeat and carry whatever torch they see lit last, i.e. stopping Alito nomination or exposing the truth of 9/11 will make a difference. Alito was just sworn in (told you he would be).
Of course we heard the same thing during the Bork nomination. A poll in 1987 during Bork's nomination process showed 2 out of 3 Americans couldn't even name Bork as Reagan's nominee. I must point out that the defeat of Bork did nothing for the middle and working class wage slaves as their lot in life continues downhill, nor have huge numbers of the masses gotten any smarter since 1987.
As for 9/11, well - we need look no further than Pearl Harbor, JFK murder, Gulf of Tonkin, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Mena, etc. to see how truth "will out." Some citizens questioned the official Abe and John Wilkes Booth story but we know how history tells that, and how many still care.
Truth will out – a proverb for the masses. Folks repeat the phrase and know it isn't true. They know, even when and if bits of truth "will out," it has never changed their enslaved lives to US empire. America's lower classes have repeated the same adage for at least my lifetime and my parents' lifetimes, who heard the same from their parents, so pretty much since day one of America. In political history truth never wills out; truth is buried along with the perpetrators, buried among the official "versions" and in the graves of a few of the generation it mattered to. Most Americans do not want (never have wanted) the truth. This country was built and is still maintained on killing non-whites (usually) and slavery (cheap labor today).
We will never know the truth of 9/11. Just knowing we've been had again should be sufficient, but it isn't. Because not enough know or want to know they're being had.
MSNBC has a good example of b.s. for those politically left of center. Palace Revolt, shades of JFK Camelot rhetoric? A hack piece generating the idea that a few "quietly determined lawyers" waged a quiet battle to "rein in" the BushCo power in the war on terror, and it "cost them." The article focuses on one Jack Goldsmith who left Bush's Washington, to work as a lowly professor at Harvard Law School. Oh the inhumanity of it all, the cost to Mr. Goldsmith. This type of news is for those who read and have some thinking ability – it projects a little "hope" where there is none. It perpetuates the myth that the flunkies of the ruling elite "care" about you, me, and the country and willingly sacrifice their guvmint jobs and careers in pursuit of doing the right thing. Amazingly, those suits "doing the right thing" doesn't make a dent in the government's armor these days (or dent the right-thingers wallet). But the altruism is astounding huh?
Anyone who still believes America's "left" is any different than America's "right" is a sorry dupe indeed. Look at Cindy this past week, hugging and hobnobbing with Chavez. Anyone think her trips abroad and speechifying from the podium of "socialists" is attracting Bubba and Earline or Dick and Jane to her cause?
One of my biggest chuckles comes from the Aussies, Brits, and other Anglo internationalistas who like to point out the horrors and flaws of the USA, completely overlooking their own country's role in the whole world mess. Have you ever met a German who wasn't a leeeetle bit into group supremacy; a Frenchman who wasn't totally self-regarding, a Brit always eventually stupidly defending their monarch, or an Aussie drinking his Crown Lager drawn on the welfare state? Yessirree, Americans should succeed at governing, like the European and Aussie utopias.
Maybe those down-under and fussy Euro-folks think they have the solutions. We just need ugly silly royalty to support, racial problems, immigration woes, a going bankrupt government, dumb as dirt citizens, and plenty of welfare and lager. But wait, don't we have that already?
4 comments:
During last night's State of the Union Address, the Democrats stood and applauded the President. Meanwhile, Bubba and Earline went to WalMart while Dick and Jane made a quick trip to Family Dollar. All is well.
Kathy F.
What makes this such a difficult and frustrating time in our history isn't just the fact that these events seem to repeat themselves continuously throughout history without end, but rather the frustration that comes with knowing that this information is now available to a greater audience of people throughout the world than ever before, with more and more people now given the opportunity to discern truth from illusion, yet many still do not and will not accept this. People no longer are forced to follow mindlessly anymore, the truth is available to them if they would accept it.
Unfortunately,many people will not accept this; these people are afraid to face the truth because sometimes it can be very painful, the truth can shatter their comfort zones, force them to rethink and re-establish a new perception of the world they had truly believed they knew, and worst of all, it makes them responsible as agents of change (social and otherwise)because ultimately, with power comes great responsibility-- to have knowledge and do nothing with it is worse than to not know at all. Kate, you are able through your brilliant intellect to engage people in a manner that makes them question what reality they are living in and whether it truly is conducive for the few or the many (the underlying intentions). As frustrating as this world may appear to us and others, I hope you understand that the instant one of your posts causes another to even consider a different option, another worldview-- you have changed that persons awareness for the better, you have given that person the ability to question what they have been force-fed and to think on their own rather than be told what to think. We all thank you for that. Change can be an extremely slow and painful process to see played out on the world stage, it never comes about the way we would envision it, but the more you can help others to open their eyes, the more these people can serve as lights to others-it truly becomes a chain reaction, and we are all in this together. You are deeply appreciated, as frustrating as it gets there is a very real effect and function to what you do and it is not unnoticed, keep up the good work.
Well, I like Kate, too. Not venerate perhaps but like, lol, and I read all postings here.
Just to pick out one thing, Kate, are you suggesting that Cindy should try harder to reach the real base, the working people, the poor, the probably-ill-educated? I admit I hadn't thought about a proper strategy for the Cindy's anti-war message. I don't even know what groups she's aligned with. I do know she's heartily maligned in many places. I also know that she and a Congressman's wife were both put out (Cindy arrested, the wife not) of the SOTU for wearing t-shirts with messages on them -- an act which publicizes the issue of free speech.
As we've said before, there are no heroes not should we look for any. But I think anyone doing whatever it is they can do is much better than not even trying. Ideally, one can be photographed with whomever, can wear whatever in the absence of an established dress code, and can opine about whichever topic they are into. This would be the exercise of free speech, and we should applaud them whether we agree or not.
I wrote a little bit about politics on my blog and got a comment using the words Commie and Cindy as if those are bad things. Too funny. But it's his/her right to their opinion.
Re being used by the hidden powers-that-be and never finding-out-what-happened, I don't doubt you are absolutely right. Perhaps what we're missing in that unhappy scenario is the fact that most people have their own lives and are rather happy with their kids and dogs and big-screen tvs and pick-ups and all that. They don't have to plot and plan how to keep and increase their wealth and power on the backs of others, take bodyguards everywhere they go, avoid reporters and photographers, protect their property with elaborate expensive security systems, etc. Just a thought.
Thanks all.
dus, yes, I think Cindy should be trying to reach the "working people, the poor, the probably-ill-educated." They're the bulk of who die in war.
I'll believe free speech is in danger when I, and thousands of others blogging furiously against BushCo, are shut down or arrested for some awful antiwar, anti-Bush T-shirts I wear such as I wear. Personally, I think it a PR stunt for and by Sheehan handlers. A sideshow, distraction.
So far she's done nothing that impresses me enough to support her cause - a cause that seems rather abstract and/or changing. First it was to meet with Bush, now it's for withdrawal, six months from now - ? Maybe she'll return to her Crawford vigil when the weather is better.
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