14. August 2011 more and more about “those people.”

The people who need to be concerned about the 2012 election, most of all, are “those people.” Every candidate standing under a GOP banner will be attacking them in the months ahead. Every teavangelist voter and candidate will be laying the blame for all the social and political problems faced by the United States on Barak Obama and “those people.”



You and I know who “those people” are. You and I, all too often, are “those people.” We work (or used to work) with “those people.” We socialize with them, go to religious services with them. We share classroom space with them. We spend hours standing in checkout lines with them. We see them at the library, at the doctors' offices, in grocery stores and farmers' markets.



Who, then, are “those people,” who incite such hatred in the teavangelists, who are viewed as the target for all taxation by the GOP strategists?



The targeted people, those, according to the teavangelists, who are supposedly destroying the nation are you and I, and our friends and neighbors.
They are the former middle class. They are the former factory workers who walked into work and were told that they were no longer needed, because the corporation decided to close the factory and re-open in in Guatemala or Bangladesh.
They are the newly unemployed who now look for new jobs and try to pay their bills with the unemployment insurance check. They would rather have a job to pay their bills but they can't find one.
They are the working poor who had the bad fortune to have been paying for health insurance that won't cover their newly diagnosed disease. Now they are no longer insurable and their employer will fire them to keep the group insurance rates low. They are the people working two or more part-time jobs for minimum wage with no benefits.
They are the immigrants with darker skin who have the audacity to believe that the promise of religious freedom in this nation also applies to them. They are They are the single parents trying to buy school supplies and food,.
They are the elderly who's retirement accounts and home equity that was intended for retirement vanished while their investment bankers were handed 7 figure bonuses. Now they measure meals against medicine and die of too little warmth in the winter and too much warmth in the summer.
They are the service men and women newly discharged from active duty, reservists or national guard who had jobs when they answered their summons to duty but who returned to no jobs, and all to often no homes. The GOP and teavangelists are happy to make use of them in un-funded wars but have no intention of funding their care for PTSD. If “those veterans” want jobs they're out of luck.






“Those people” are the 50% or so of the American families who collectively earn so little that they do not owe income taxes. They must be getting tired of hearing over and over again how “those people” don't pay any taxes, clog up the ER's, drain the school systems, and live on charity because they are “too lazy” or “too greedy” to work.
What the teavangelists, living examples of true “Christian charity,” never point out is that while “those people” may not pay income taxes they most certainly do pay taxes on every thing they purchase to wear, every bite of food they purchase, school supplies, medication, gasoline, telephone service and everything else that the GOP can hang a tax upon.
I'm sure that they'd rather be paying income taxes. Just that little bit of tax responsibility means that they are making more money than the bare bones level that separates “those people” from the smug and self-righteous teavangelists who get their information from highly paid demagogues and corporation-owned pseudo-news programming that feeds them a set of lies designed to force a wedge between the working class/former middle class, and the upper 1% of the populace that is paying the GOP to hand them that part of the country that they don't already own.
“Those people” are the core of the county's work force. They provide the bulk of our military's enlisted ranks, fill all the jobs that the GOPers and teavangelists don't want to do, at a wage that doesn't allow them to meet the poverty level defined by the government. They serve as targets of hatred for the GOP/teavangelists who are afraid that “those people” will “take over “our “ country” and then treat them like they treat “those people.”



It would be amusing to hear them actually come out and admit how afraid of “those people “ they actually are. In a just nation, perhaps they should be.