Sometimes I fear we on the left can be sucked into a sort of psychological cesspool by ingaging in the same sort of self-regurtating rhetoric, devoid of any actual fresh event. There are risks in doing so of falling into intellectual and moral traps. But yet we forge ahead. Today
is Friday April 11, 2014 and at two I grabbed my copy of “If you see the Bhudda
in the road, kill him”. In one chapter
there is the proposition that when God “created them male and female” this
included Adam’s first help mate named Lilly or something. But God had to get rid of her because she
refused to take orders from her husband but instead said to him “Am I not a co
creation of God along with you? We are
equals”. Of course Gene Scott says “Everybody
knows that women are really smarter than men, and it’s my mission to keep them
from ever finding out”. Hence we have
the “ruler-ship of the inferior”. This
would be in accord with Randy’s theory about these big Corporate bosses who
pick a man to be President not because he is so smart or talented or
independent or principled, but rather if he is plyable and hopefully a little
dumb. So there is talk of George W Bush
being “Not his mother’s choice for President” but that distinction went to Jeb
Bush. George W was the cocaine addict
and drunkard, or what they call a “dry drunk”, a term I continually am puzzled
by. So Dick Chaney had to be the Vice
President as a “babysitter to President Bush”.
In like manner - - Ronald Reagan we all know was starting to get a
little senile as early as the 1984 reelection campaign, and of course Nancy
Reagan and her astrology had to take over.
So it isn’t that they make an icon of Ronald Reagan any more than these “Devout
Christians” hold God in such lofty regard.
In truth in honoring Reagan as an icon they fashioned with their own
hands, they honor themselves. People
are worried about President Obama’s popularity rating dipping into the low
forties, and yet when George W’s ratings were 32% republicans lined up from all
over to make excuses for him.
Of
course the Republicans in Congress pulled off a trifecta earlier this
week. They passed the Paul Ryan budget,
which was a completely meaningless gesture as we have previously explained. The Republicans this day also defeated the “Equal
pay for equal work” women’s rights bill.
And they also gave a strong thumbs down to raising the minimum
wage. And then there was that farsical
thing yesterday that Harry Reid called them out on, where they had already
passed cloture on a judicial nominee that had been languishing for nine months
from President Obama, among so many unfulfilled posts. But the Republicans instituted a “thirty
hours of post cloture debate” rule, they are sticking to to the letter. It’s a colossal waste of time and will
postpone votes on key judicial nominees till after the Easter recess, which
runs clear through to April 28th, which last time I checked was
eight days after Easter. That’s how
these people opporate. These congressmen
have only passed a third or less of the bills as the famous “do nothing
congress” Truman lamented in 1947 and 1948.
Basically, and this is not sarcasm, they just might as take the rest of
the year off anyhow because the year 2014 is a lost cause.
Randy
Rhodes has some “psychological theories” some would consider dangerous, for
sure. If things are really as bad as she
proposes, America is in a lot worse shape than anyone dares imagine. The Republicans are going to great lengths to
eliminate voting opportunies for blacks and the poor, and she says “They
deliberately place the polling places an hour’s distance away” and then you
have to stand in line for six hours. Now
the state of Florida was asked to provide handicapped retrofitted restrooms for
people in voting lines. But then the
State of Florida felt “guilty” about possible “discrimination” and said “I know
what we’ll do. To insure that the
handicapped aren’t discriminated against, a memo will go out that ALL restrooms
in public places be closed on Election Day.
This scenario would not even qualify as the plot to a bad novel. If things are really that bad- - just as they
“Federalize the national guard” in emergencies, perhaps the Supreme Court
should step in and federalize the conduct of all elections, since the states
are obviously proving themselves incompetent to do the job. Certainly the framers of the Constitution
never dreamed of such a thing where the states would conspire to keep certain
segments deliberately from voting- carried out on a massive scale.
Of
course this same “Proactive Hostility” is on a far lower moral plane than the usual "reactive hostility". It's one thing to "get back at someone" because they hurt you, or in the normal course of the day some frictions or misunderstandings occur. Proactive hostility is targeting an individual you may not even know personally but somehow you have developed an obsession about him, and you can't get the fact out of your mind that somehow you need to "ruin his life" for some imagined reason. It's kind of like Clarence Thomas saying "I believe in not revealing the sources of campaign donations because I care so much about Black civil rights groups in the sixties" when in reality- - this has nothing to do with his true motives. It's almost akin to - - like in Prison or something where a Guard will take a disliking to you - - for completely irrational reasons that exist only in his mind. It's like these people are "on a mission" to do you harm.. So you see proactive hostility carried out by the tea party against
minorities - - - as if sabotaging the Vote in election day were the most "Right" thing to do. And it is carried out on “Days of our Lives” by this spurned boyfriend of
Jennifer Horton- - who has gone to fantastic lengths to “get even” with Dr
Daniel Jonas, by drugging him just before he is due to perform a double by-pass
heart operation slated to last for hours.
Nicole had but one question when she saw a stranger in her boyfriend’s
apartment. “What are you doing here?” Note that he never answered that question but
sure was really weasely about virtually everything. He’s one of those people that makes Richard Nixon
in comparison look like a really stand up honest kind of guy. And then we have of course Julie Williams
defending Nick Fallon. Nick was being
more diplomatic and “apologetic” (for someone elses’ stupid actions) than I would
have been. Julie doesn’t think it was
very nice for Will Horton not to invite Nick to his wedding the other day. I would have said to Julie “Well, I never
really thought about it before but I think you have a point. In fact why don’t you go to Will and Sonny
and ask them why I wasn’t invited. I’d
be all ears when it comes to what they have to say to you. You know- - I’d kind of gotten the feeling
they resent me because last year I said I felt uncomfortable around gay
people. But someone like you asking a
lot of questions rather than me wouldn’t be as threatening to them”. Of course Samantha Brady is the very last
person to cast any moral judgement about anybody. Because as Julie points out “Samantha’s life
has been one big screw up and people give Samantha chance after chance and
forgive her over and over- - and it all amounts to nothing”.
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