The party of lies and hate!

As the Democrats prepare to launch their convention down in Charlotte, North Carolina, there could not be any more starkcontrasts between the two parties than what exists today. The Democratic party is a rainbow coalition marked by its diversity of thought and the origin of its makeup. The Republican party is a lily white gathering of pre twenty first century souls who will bow to any thought that will preserve what existed in the middle of the last century. In the 1950’s when Eisenhower was in office and the once greatest generation ruled the political and economic and social landscape, all was well with the world and the diversity that would become twenty first century America was either restrained or not of any importance to the powers that existed during that period of time. Still yet, when Edward R. Murrow stood up against the outrages of Joseph McCarthy, the average man on the street in New York City gave Murrow the thumbs up when they saw him walking down the street in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. It is all so easily forgotten now that the greatest generation got behind things like the space program and the civil rights movement, and, that they were the kind of people who saw wrongs when pointed out by their leaders and attempted to right them.

America would not be where it is in the twenty first century if it had not been for the yearnings and the efforts of those who came before. However, the seeds of unrest among the white wealthy class were sowed amidst the turmoil that was the nineteen sixties. When Barry Goldwater took the 1964 Republican party down to one of its greatest defeats, the taste of what might have been lingered long in the mouths of those who had the vision despite their failures to see what might be coming as the century moved along. In 1964, there were still people of note who remembered a time before Franklin D. Roosevelt came to power. They remembered a time before government programs when the world was free of regulation and they could do pretty much as they pleased. They were the cream of the one percent at a time when that one percent held nothing like the wealth and control that they currently hold today. These were union haters and scorners of anyone who did not hold the same beliefs as they did. So, after the 1964 defeat, many of them got together informally in their social clubs in the power centers of the nations financial and industrial communities and began to plot to return a world they saw as already gone astray back to it rightful place.

These were very wealthy and patient men who learned quickly from the early idealogs of the time what was going to be necessary to accomplish their goals. And, they learned from some of the most undesirable people in the world as they began to write their playbook for what we see in the Republican party today. Chief among the items in that playbook were the ideas of not hesitating to tell the big lie when that opportunity came along. The liberal community was in charge of the congress and the supreme court so they patiently awaited the excesses of what some of what liberal idealogy they felt would surely bring. They had cheered when John F. Kennedy was assassinated and they further cheered when others of the Kennedy ilk were taken away. Sure enough, the unions began to overstep themselves and the natural cycle began a retreat from big unions. The high watermark of union excesses occurred when they actually thought that they could unionize the American military. And, a liberal supreme court laid the seeds for much of what the conservatives who lay in wait desired when they took prayer out of schools. Even though there was much reason to make this move, it greatly offended conservatives and many of the faithful and it laid the groundwork for what we see today--a fragmented educational system where the once strong public school concept has, to a great degree, gone by the wayside. Where the conservative right could have used its influence to help validate the idea of the individual free of uncomfortable surroundings in a public setting, they instead used the prayer issue as a wedge to drive between what was soon to be competing groups that they knew would one day harden into divisions that could never easily be broken apart again. Without an educated and thoughtful populace, the greatest generation began to slowly lose their sway as the years and the decades passed by. This was the fertile ground where those on the right could begin to preach their hate filled message to people who, here to fore, had not been willing to listen.

If there has been one thing that has aided the right more than anything it has been the growing alienation and isolation of the segment of the nation that comprises the white community. And, the right has been willing to use any method to be sure that isolation and alienation is maximized to its fullest. If we might think that the idea of Barack Obama as a one term president consumes the right is a new thing, it is but the latest manifestation of all consuming ideas that have occupied these people for a very long time now. Instead of engaging in meaningful dialog to try to take the nation to a new level that was begun under John Kennedy, the right has quietly been undermining such efforts for decades since that time. And, they have used anything at their disposal to achieve that goal. It was under the flawed presidency of Richard Nixon that the first ideas were floated which have now resulted in the creation and flourishing of things such as Fox News, nothing more in reality than a propaganda arm of the Republican party. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press has been used by these people to foster a sort of lack of freedom as they have used them in lockstep to fill minds increasingly more poorly educated with ideology instead of ideas. It has been said that the United States today has among the best educated sixty year olds and among the most average to mediocre schooled thirty year olds ever seen in a major industrialized nation. A good education is an isolation breaker while a poor one creates the intellectual isolation where the cesspool of ideas that the right fosters can easily exist.

The greatest thing to ever happen to the right was the presidency of Jimmy Carter. It was the feeling by President Gerald Ford that he wanted to spare the American people the addition nightmare of a trial of Richard Nixon after Watergate that resulted in the very close election of Carter. So, in a way, the Republican who lost the election in 1976, served the rights ambitions so very well. Carter was one of the most incompetent and unlucky of presidents and his landslide loss to Ronald Reagan completely turned the tide in favor of the conservative right, something that it has never really given back until this very day. The right had seen the liberal left deficit spend to achieve some of their goals so the right, under Reagan, took this idea to a whole new level. The first really big deficits were rung up under Reagan and the whole idea from that time forward was that each time a Republican would get into office, the national borrowing power would be stretched to its limit. And, the twin of that philosophy and what has been the crowning achievement of the right all of these years is the belief that taxes can not ever be raised again. George H.W. Bush called this trickle down/supply side economics “voodoo economics� but it is so often forgotten that voodoo is held in high regard and greatly feared in certain parts of the world. The Reagan years were very prosperous for so many and cemented this idea of starving the government of tax revenue in the false assumption that the less you tax the more revenue one will have. The conjunction of this tax idea with an increasingly less and less truly educated populace has, through the years, given rise to larger and larger debt as time has gone on. George W. Bush was the ultimate dream of the right when he ran up the largest deficit in American history while doing something else that the radical right has always loved: War and conquest! If there is one tenant that is dear to the right it is a strong military and an increasingly greater budget for that military strength. It has been pointed out that the United States spends as much on its military as the next fourteen nations directly behind it combined. A recent result of this huge spending binge is a project to genetically create a race of super soldiers with physical powers well beyond anything that we have seen to date.

To see some of these conservative right wingers in their daily life is to see a group that keeps themselves in tremendous physical shape and who has little respect for those who do not do the same. That is so very apparent with Paul Ryan, the current Republican vice presidential nominee and how he leads the conservatives in congress in daily rigorous physical exercises right in the house of representatives gym. In the conservative right, you are judged as much by your physique as you are by your intellect, if not more so. And, this spills over into the everyday life of these people where physical strength is equated with ones ability in the business and financial world. It should never be forgotten that these people want the law of the jungle to exist in a world where there is no regulation and only the strongest and most fit will survive, regardless of what they have to do to do so. Gentle and caring people have no place in this world and their only use is as employment fodder for the grist mills of the right who use them up and then simply want them to go away and die a quiet and lonely death! And that death is to be proceeded by absolutely no aid at all. No benefits such as social security or health care or disability benefits to ease their way. It is a paradox that the right nods in agreement with those who deny Charles Darwin’s theories while they wish to see them practiced in the fullest on their fellow men.

There are those who will tell you that the ultimate plan of the conservative right is, by 2032, to move this nation back to a time before Franklin D. Roosevelt first came into office in 1932! It takes a great hate and a million or more lies to accomplish something like that. But, it would appear as if these people are right on course to achieve their goals. And, this election will move them a million miles on down that road if the rights candidate for president--Mitt Romney--wins on November sixth of this year. And, there is NOTHING that the right as embodied by all that we have previously discussed, will not do to accomplish that goal. Depressions, hardships, the sacrificing of the economy, the use of racism, the misuse of faith and religion are nothing to these people if they can get this caring and compassionate black man out of office and replace him with this amoral person who will do their bidding and think nothing about it in the end. And, it is almost incomprehensible to think of a hate that large, but it is there and among us as we speak. And, to a group that hates that much, no lie is too big to achieve their goals! It has been twenty eight years since 1984 and it is but twenty years until 2032. Lest we forget!

IOVHO,

Regards,

Joe

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