Class Cold Warfare

Response to Karl Frisch's column of 20 Sept 2011

Brilliant.  Thank you for succinctly and pointedly calling the GOP on their hypocrisy,  They are arrogant enough to believe this strategy will work ad nauseum...time for it to backfire.

A lot of decisions and policies were enacted in public and private sectors...long before current administration...that drifted Americans toward the wealth and poverty poles.  The dearth of middle class, the discontinuation of good and equitable education, and simplification of health care for many to a choice between debt and death...these results evidence of successful class warfare campaign waged by the powerful against the plebs (myself included).

We need social leadership that will do for economically oppressed Americans what MLK did for civil rights--affirm the inequity and illegality of our current state, renew our commitment to peace and prosperity, ignite our potential and awaken our power.

I believe there are many out there who, like me, wallowed in the complacency of middle class while a slow, quiet drip eroded our economic security.  I knew fear for the first time upon waking up in actual statistical poverty and finally noticing the target on my back.  Having survived so far, and having worked through fear for survival, I now know anger.  Not a white-hot and irrational anger, but a focused and directed anger that is intelligent, educated, experienced and ready for action.  They want to call "Class Warfare?"  Bring it on.  You're right, Karl.  We have engaged.

If Tea Party-ers listened to themselves...

I just love this exchange, gotta share.  I stumbled into a right-wing string of photo comments via a friend's post.  The basic thought was that current Congress and Administration has spent us into current economic state.  As a fan of reality, I just had to jump in, and was rewarded with a perfect example of the American who are so well trained to accept the latest 30 seconds of message as Truth that they are no longer conscious of what they themselves said or heard 30 seconds ago. The whole thing is @ http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150381229248854&set=a.10150140108168854.337792.116727628853&type=1&theater

I said...
Apparently calendars are as out of fashion as facts. The money that's causing today's problems was spent by the gov't and lost by Wall St & Co BEFORE  Obama took office. The money spent since was an attempt to fix the debt and insolvency problems created by the prior Administration(s) and Congress(s). I'm not qualified to say bailouts were right or wrong, enough or not enough. I am grateful that the current Administration and Congress had the guts to shore up the banks so that the damage wasn't worse. I am sad that those who received and managed the money did not do so with more integrity and accountability. I am ashamed of Americans who decide to forget or neglect facts in favor of the emotional rush of belonging they get from FoxNews, the Tea Party and other distortion purveyors. The collaboration needed to reverse our political and economic state is difficult enough without rejecting reality. Please re-introduce critical thinking into your thinking process before you cast your next vote.


Respondent said...
Moira...it doesn't take a degree in "critical thinking" to determine that spending more than you're taking in, throwing good money after bad, pandering to voters and companies simply for voter turnout, using racially motivated politics, and flat out ignorance are reasons enough to declare this administration a farce. Please stop using talking points from liberal commentators, we've heard them all before and they are really, really old and pathetic. Instead of the skipping record of blaming the previous administration, how about TAKING RESPONSIBLITY FOR THE INEPTITUDE of the current leaders? Pointing fingers is a sign of weakness, and you have displayed yours. A popular trend amongst simple minded people such as yourself....


So I said...
Donny, note the difference between "pointing fingers" and stating facts. It's a good place for you to start. That "skipping record" is reality attempting to break through rhetoric. All the best to you.

I hold these truths to be self-evident

As always, more to come...

Everything that occurs naturally is ultimately round.  Anything that is planed or straight is man-made.

The problem with string theory is that it is not round.

The opposite of love is apathy.

All human intent can be plotted on a 4-square grid.  Y (Motivation) axis is Love and Fear, X (Survival) axis is Sex and Money.

Masonry began when Solomon built the first temple to "house" God in a palace of straight lines, and thereby reverse that nature of worship from female to male.  He later realized this as an error, realized its implications, and recanted.  It was too late.  The method of spiritual, political and economic control he loosed had taken hold, and holds us still.