“Win By ANY Means” puts Republic At great risk.
(EUGENE, Ore.) - Wonder WHY we suddenly receive so many negative comments re Obama actions right here on our open, honest, democratic channel for ethical citizen dialog?
Far Right “noise machine” mechanisms --now spread across the entire nation-- make that machination now mandatory for many hard/shell recalcitrants.
They act as-instructed, rapidly and easily,“on order” facilitated by Internet.
Thus they refuse to recognize President Obama’s huge national mandate for real transformative change. That’s their way to make meaningless the heart of our democracy: “Consent of the governed” --shaped and supported by freely-elected representatives.
There’s nothing “conservative” about this method. It is simply adapted from Nazi-Fascist patterns well proven long ago, but never before brought to bear so broadly and brazenly in our “free speech”-America. Rapidly whenever action occurs in D.C., specifically worded “similar-stuff” begins appearing on our open channel here.
Most-such is readily recognizable to anyone workingprofessionally with words and their presentation, simply by its awkward reflection of complex issues and actions. Another key is obvious unfamiliarity with basic background of issue, action, and leaders-involved.
“The stuff” is often made to seem a bit relevant by meaningless mention of anything-close, but with no real relation to the thread-content underway then --despite appearance seemingly timely and in-tune.
Desperate to resurrect near-fatal failure from their Constitutional debacle, the Far Right is now hard at work to curb --then kill-off-- the first Presidency by a black man since the Founders declared “each is equal under law”.
(Yes - “racism” is a very strong component of the huge pressures clearly and deeply present, whether consciously recognized by many heavily so influenced.) They will use any possible means to return towards another lucrative era of previous long-prevailing power, driven by psychologic passions demonstrated in the past.
They well know the desperate desert into which they now head, having “been there before” after similar political/pandering to the same failed philosophy on other historic occasions --as “the Southern strategy” has so well demonstrated both by success and failure.
Concerted, concentrated, consolidated and constant attack on every level, about any possible problem, with no surcease for serious consideration of commonweal, is their weapon of early choice, seeking continued conflict. They are fully willing for the nation to continue into desperate collapse.
They see that situation as sure to strengthen their woeful weak-hand after catastrophic defeat by voters in the millions.
They will even bring on such continuing catastrophe if it will assist their return to electoral control -- no matter how achieved.
Then THEY can appear to lead us to salvation -- their chosen kind, with their unfolding pattern of providing ever-less funding, ever-more regulation, ever fewer “chosen ones” for ever-larger bureaucratic bounties --bound only by what they can wring out of what is left from multi-billion/dollar politically-shaped programs provided to-order for lobbyist/corporate comfort.
Funding is surely the name of the game within ANY truly democratic-operational elected-representative assembly --at ANY level-- today.
For our nation it has become a day-to-day, hour to- our struggle between ostensibly-OUR people and THEIR people, with “theirs” well/paid and prolific as lobbyists providing many types of “persuasion”. What used to come wrapped in anonymous/white, or by careful routing via variously-hidden other “clear channels”, is more decorously delivered as “corporate campaign contributions”: But the negative impacts on our once-democratic “management-of-resources” differs not a whit.
That tax-cut/cushioned total-take is really inconsequential, compared to what they really reap as consequence, via “corporate campaign contributions.” In short --preservation and extension of their political feudalism fomented and fashioned starting in the Reagan regime: With “supply-side” economics as its ruling fantasy so set as to confuse, confound, fool and frustrate any resolute citizen seeking simply to understand “where all the money went.”
That’s WHY “they” keep on dancing and delivering despite those millions of “cease and desist” votes by desperately-driven Americans seeking, somehow, to return to those years “before Reagan” when the original New Deal rescued us from the original Deep Depression. When those days swept upon us, in “Hoovertime”, we encountered precisely the same pattern of absolute denial --no matter what was suggested or even set up-- until FDR --famous for political sensitivity as much as for applied commonsense-- learned from deepening exposure to real people, in real peril, suffering real calamity in their real lives.
That’s WHEN what was until then really a rather ordinary political campaign became the world-renowned “power-of-the-people, heart-and-head/driven crusade” now universally honored in our history. That was WHY the Roosevelt New Deal-years left the nation re/empowered as never before or since.
What worked to deny, then defeat very similar actions-then --easily recognizable now for anyone surviving from then !!-- will undoubtedly again work to deny, defeat and disperse “into the shadows” those who would sacrifice the commonweal and the nation to their own petty political-panders and pretense of remaining true and faithful to democracy today.
Determined resistance, put into rapid and very remarkable action by those heartfully-concerned, got the job done in Roosevelt’s day.
It can do the same again NOW, versus the same forces, flourishing the same tools and techniques, if we will join ranks and seize up our own weapons. We can provide the overwhelming torrents of strength, admonition and open demand to shape, strengthen and project essential wise action by our representatives.
Once again, it is our own democracy we rescue and our own freedoms we strengthen and preserve in that ultimate democratic action: Guiding the hesitant next-steps of our chosen, freely-elected, pledged-to-the-nation representatives.
We can make them understand what follows if they fail to listen, think and only then to act. Let your voices be heard, loudly, clearly, and NOW continuously.
It was not for naught that John Dewey declared that “Conversation is the heart of democracy.” That’s why we operate an open, honest, democratic channel --intended for ethical dialog by responsible, accountable citizen participants.
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Henry Clay Ruark is the one of, if not the most experienced, working reporter in the state of Oregon, and possibly the entire Northwest. Hank has been at it since the 1930's, working as a newspaper staff writer, reporter and photographer for organizations on the east coast like the Bangor Maine Daily News.Today he writes Op-Ed's for Salem-News.com with words that deliver his message with much consideration for the youngest, underprivileged and otherwise unrepresented people.
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