Far too many Americans falling prey to racism-virus on vote.
(SALEM, Ore.) - One of my favorite stories is about a well-experienced old farmer breaking in another barn-worker. The kicker comes when he warns his younger friend: “Watch it --that bull is gonna s... right on you !”...but NOT in time!
We can only hope this similar warning IS in time --and will NOW demand your attention AGAIN, before another malignly-historic political smear-campaign can result in a very-similar outcome sure to smear-and-smell our own chapter in American History.
YOU will NOT want to be mis/led and manipulated into letting that happen via YOUR “fair-and-rational vote”. That would leave your own indelible fingerprints right in the middle of that disgusting, unacceptable smear.... As well as making you an accomplice --”unthinking” or NOT !-- of that notorious bull now so well-known to so many thinking citizens.
ANYone following national sources on this election cannot but see the same sequence getting set to take place --again !!-- that wrecked and ruined continuance of America’s last and most historic “achievement for the ordinary people”: The New Deal; substituting “the costly start of the Reagan-Bush I neocon/era” and “its many historic beginnings for now-catastrophic consequences” from which we are only beginning our extremely-painful recovery.
That’s what’s happening as this very peculiar --and perhaps “most fundamentally-climaxing of any political drama since the Civil War”-- winds its perplexing way into our American History.
IF that basically-UN/American action actually is allowed to take place “by citizen misunderstanding”, the overpowering stench may well permeate our chapter in that History, in the same way that perverse-but-potent bull-action did for those two in the barn.
They could clean up both the very-distressed barn-worker and the barn much more easily than we ever can our own “democratic nation, where all are equal under law” --once the bull “drops that bunch” on us --Again!
Fortunately --now that you’ve been well-and-timely/warned about the real “bull-danger” we are facing-- YOU can dodge and avoid any such diverting action in YOUR own way; by thoughtful and undistorted reliance on historical fact-and-full research, garnered from Wikipedia for you, as reported in the preceding Op Ed. (See the 50-odd Internet links listed at Wikipedia.)
The concept of racism is thus well-relegated to history’s dust-bin now, due to ongoing research you can rely on --strong enough even to break through any “denial” you may be having to contend with that “psychotic symptom”, given the fact of bull-influence far outside the barn.
We must never forget that our Founding Fathers most purposely meant their newfound dream of good-and-decent governance to obtain for ALL of our people --that was one of its most powerful innovative impacts: surely further reflected in Lincoln’s illuminating phrasing: “OF the
People, FOR by the People, BY the People”. --already a full-century later, which goes to prove up very convincingly the continued economic impact still “bullified” by those who continued to gain by that myth.
That’s WHY we fought that bloody Civil War, long recognized by most historians as a desperate economic struggle far more than a racial one.
That’s WHY Nixon led off his most powerful political manipulation with the same old stupor-making massive-reliance on “the Southern strategy”, now so clearly seen for what its consequences have been --intentional or otherwise. With Nixon one never knew., which is why he was so vulnerable to impeachment, forcing his resignation in the face of sure and damning Congressional action.
That’s WHY, even later, our large cities were --more than once!-- convulsed by civil strife unleashed as many-deprived communicated their frustration --in the only manner still left open to them --after still another century of deprivation forced by the same contrived economic cabal, catering to the same centuries-old contrived myth, maintained for massive economic reasons.
Like any other “psychiatric symptom”, unconscious OR purposely-hidden ”racism” is desperately denied by many suffering from it, now clearly unable --despite overwhelming cultural and social advances absolutely now apparent widely in American life-- to admit in any way to themselves that it is still a motivating force in their own actions; even though its malign affects are being attached most unfairly to one Presidential candidate.
“They” --those so-suffused-- simply never realize how well and thoroughly they have been both badly mis/led and malignly-manipulated by political/cultural forces-applied, via expenditure of many millions of political dollars. (Often “campaign-contribution”-supported by corporate and business interests driven by “profit uber alles” attitudes.)
“They” --those so-suffused-- simply fail-to-see the sabotage they commit to that American-fairness which is the most essential component of our “national exceptionalism_ -- long universally hailed as one of our nation’s greatest achievements.
Full-attention, desperately now demanded in many areas of our American life once dominated by traditional “white mail workmen” --a rapidly diminishing but once-key political force-- is just as desperately needed among many who may follow family-and-friend voting-tradition this time.
Given GOP/neocon canny contrivance to cause far-too-extensive coverage of Democratic-candidate involvements on “the race issue”, while very carefully avoiding many more and even worse incidents of similar verbal-aberration via the already-anointed Republican “hero” Sen. John McCain.
The historic facts-on-record for Bush I and II involvements with “The Rev.” Myung Moon, notorious owner of The Washington TIMES. so well reported in “see with own eyes” appended to my preceding Op Ed, is highly relevant here; as our the additional “see with own eyes” links given in the Reader’s Note below.
By reference to these, we carry forward further-yet the ongoing S-N pattern-here of sending you to our sources, so that you can then use YOUR own mind” to evaluate and apply for YOUR own best interests -- without undue “persuasive impact” from what we may think.
We believe that to be of more real value to you than even the best of our cogitations, even after continuing broad consultation with even more and broader sources and situations.
After all, it is YOUR VOTE --and YOU should “make up your own mind” on rational, reasonable, factual, proven --and thus entirely “persuasive” grounds, without our intervention or interference.
Here’s the last-line of my opening-story:
“You’re SMARTER than ANY bull -- aren’t you?”
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Reader’s Note:
This Op Ed was triggered by some twenty separate major national sources, from which we might have excerpted many most-telling quotes and parts. We chose to explain to you WHY you need to “see with own eyes” and THEN to cogitate for yourselves materials like this -- well before you cast your American-style “responsible, rational” vote.
Here are “see with own eyes” links to some of the most-helpful:
1. “The All-White Elephant in the Room”; Frank Rich; New York Times; www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04rich
2. “Obama Faces Test in Asserting His Own Brand of Patriotism”; Alec McGillis; Washington Post; www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/200...
3. “Critics of Old Guard Take Black Activism Online”; Darryl Fears’ Washington Post; www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/200...
4. “Who Will Tell the People ?”; Thomas Friedman; New York Times; www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04Friedman.htm...
Quotes are sometimes shortened, condensed, combined for space reasons; verbatim notes and sources are available on request with ID to Editor Tim at newsroom@salem-news.com.
Op Ed: 'That Bull' MightSalem-News.com