Most so called conservatives now are right wing extremists bigots who are predators in sheepskins. These days they are not bothering with the sheepskins. Some crowds are being turned into fear mongering, racist epithet spewing mobs by these wolves. I do not believe this to be harmless, defensible democratic process or advancement of social, political dialogue. It is the intentional promulgation of hatred and advocacy of hate crime violence which sets us against each other while corporate CEOs are lavishing their life styles with our money, labor and blood.
There has been a welling campaign to emphasize the name “Hussein” which has continued through current demonstrations of public vitriol. To Muslims Hussein is probably a lot like “Smith” is to us. There are probably many telephone book pages for that name around the world. To several though there is only one infamous Hussein. I am reminded of the storyline from “Cabaret” and a scene in which the cabaret’s emcee says it’s safe in here. This song is juxtaposed with a scene of nazi brown shirts dragging the owner outside to brutally beat him because he is a Jew.
Now in real time there are scuffles in alleys and halls over Obamacare “socialist” insurance reform; violence against and imprisonment of Muslims because they are Muslim or because they look Muslim. While there has not been a major roundup and disappearance, the military is capturing and holding detainees in large numbers (not just at Guantanamo) without habeus corpus which is a dangerous degradation of constitutional and international law. This happens in the democracy of the United States not nazism of Germany. There have been mobs of people shouting, carrying signs that read “kill him” or other signs otherwise suggesting death to Obama. Even after having lived through the tempestuous times of the sixties and seventies, current events give me a jolting reminder of reality. The work is not done.
Several millions still believe that white is right as they assert that guns are might. They are actualizing violence at town halls, some of whose attendees carry loaded guns into the meetings. It is reported that one guy openly carried an AK-47 outside a town hall meeting with the president. The crazy part is that he is allowed to do this while the media focuses on the fourth amendment of the constitution. (In the seventies when the Black Panthers published a picture of several members armed to the teeth, the fourth amendment was not mentioned.) There has been no mainstream media coverage that reveals that the United States is the largest seller of arms; not even the Russian communists have ever matched American capitalists’ entrepreneurial aggression.
There are “tea party” demonstrations awash in anti-socialist signs and slogans. The really terrorizing word, designed to get the people in line, used to be "communism"; out of ignorance and by capitalist intention sometimes socialism would get lumped together, confused with communism. Many of the people in the fifties did not know the difference between the two and apparently even now many still do not. Socialism is not the opposite of democracy; it is the opposite of capitalism. From what I can tell so far with the bailouts and health insurance reform, capitalism is in no danger of extinction by the federal government.
It is democracy that is in danger. It is the vitriol and violence of patriot bigots who endanger democracy. These are not conservatives championing civil rights nor are they patriots defending democracy. They are bigoted right wing extremist autocratic capitalists defending their compulsive obsession to make money at the expense of others, to lead at the expense of democracy, to rule at the expense of civil rights and to reserve the white house for whites (preferably male) only. We must not let them.
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