I hope it isn't overly apparent that I've had a couple a beers.
It's at times like this when it'd almost be good to have someone take away my keyboard from me.
Well anyway.
What was going to be my point here?
Oh yeah.
Oh my yes, those were the wholesome good old days.
Now you listen to me, my dears, about the good old days.
Niggers were getting lynched on a regular basis.
How stupid was that?
You take a portion of your population and you squander their potential.
Why?
You had this sacred assumption that you took as gospel.
There was this angel of the farmer rednecks by the name of Henry Ford.
Henry Ford perfectly embodies these very real virtues that Paul Harvey lauds.
Hard working. A practical genius. Resourceful. He lifted all boats.
He also had these assumptions about Jews.
He wrote about them in his Ford publication that was distributed by every Ford dealership.
Ford had quite an impact on promulgating the popular narrative of the day that Jews are at the heart of just about every human malady.
How stupid is that?
That abrogation of personal responsibility that Henry Ford championed played a role in several million human beings being turned into charcoal brickets.
How stupid is that?
Do I vilify Henry Ford?
No. I think Henry Ford accomplished wonderful things.
Was Henry Ford a super man?
No, Henry Ford was not a super man.
Henry Ford was an ordinary man who accomplished stupendous things and also was at times a spectacularly pig headed stupid moronic idiot. That is, Henry Ford was a typical human being.
Paul Harvey was a stupid idiot.
I love Paul Harvey. I can relate to him.
Now Charlie, please don't hit that send button. Please don't.
Oh now you've gone and done it.
Well.
If you keep doing what you've been doing,
you are going to keep on getting what you've been getting
is all I can say.
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Comments: 5
I promise. No beers this time. Just some coffee. And the usual Charlie brain chemistry. Which is some potent shit by the way.
Another aspect of the 1950s. The Red Scare. Senator Joe McCarthy. The House Committee of Un-American Affairs.
Here's what the right wing didn't get then and what it doesn't get now: In their paranoid view of dissent they mistook it as disloyalty. When, quite often, it wasn't disloyalty but a higher loyalty. Namely, the kind of loyalty that would stand up to an angry bunch of redneck sons of bitches and tell them they're full of shit. That it is a higher loyalty.
Martin Luther King, for example, a guy the right wing of the day regarded as disloyal to America public enemy number one was in actuality practicing a higher loyalty to America.
The "Freedom Riders" of the 1960s who took those bus rides through the Deep South to protest segregated public transportation laws, which were by the way in contradiction to several US Supreme Court rulings, several of whom got their heads beat in by an angry bunch of redneck son a bitch kluless kuxheads, also had that kind of higher loyalty to America.
People who try to get it through your dumb as a post head that greenhouse gases are a physical reality to be taken seriously exhibit a higher loyalty to you. If they hated you, they'd be apathetic to your spectacular stupidity.
What did happen during the '50s was a constant hammering and yammering by government and press on the evils of Communism and the great threat it posed to all of America. There was an atmosphere of fear that eventually led to the election of Richard Nixon and later Ronald Reagan. In the arena of unintended consequences, American workers voting against themselves because of an artificially generated visceral fear of Communism has to be one of the most oxymoronic.
If there's one thing I wish I could get across to the right wing of America, it's this: We're not making this up in order to push you around. There really is a need for health care reform, for example. There really is a need to get greenhouse gas emissions on a decline.
Does Obamacare achieve the needed health care reform? I think not very well if at all. The problem with Obamacare, I think, it's not Obamacare so much as it started out as Obamacare but was re-written by health care industry lobbyists. Which was the problem with the whole system in the first place. What it is, basically, health care in this country is a money canal that has a big ole leak in it. We pay out a bigger portion in "administrative costs" than any other country. Way too much of the money isn't going toward health care but is leaking out and getting sucked up by well heeled interests who have figured out how to game the system to their advantage. That's the basic problem that needs fixing. That and not a scheme to up your taxes and rob you of your Constitutional liberties was the impetus of Obamacare. It was an attempt to fix the leak. If you say it was a poor attempt, I agree.
Seems to me Republicans aren't focused on fixing the leak but only in dishing out this paranoid narrative that any attempt to fix the leaky canal is a Bolshevik plot to up your taxes rob you of your Constitutional Liberties. One, it's total bovine shiza. You're being had in that narrative. You're being played. You're being done out the money that is leaking out that canal. If you must get paranoid about something, get paranoid about that. Two, it doesn't fix the leak.
Ever wonder why the right wing narrative just happens to work out so that the leak by which a few people are doing quite well for themselves at your expense doesn't get fixed? In whose interest might that be do you suppose? Yours?
No, Charles... I haven't had to wonder about that for decades.