Cassi Creek: The
broadcast and cable news outlets yesterday were correctly, placing a proposed
anti-Obama campaign before us; so that we may have some idea about the depths of
hatred that are driving this campaign.
Officially, the Romney campaign refused to have anything to do with
it. Unofficially it has been the hidden
blueprint used against Obama since he secured the nomination in 2008.
The
GOP//teavangelists have stitched together a fabric of lies concerning Obama. He has been depicted as a communist (and
simultaneously a fascist), a secret Muslim, a foreign-born non-citizen, and much
more. What they, the opposition, really
want to say is “Obama is black”, and therefore we don’t want him to hold office
and wield power. He scares them. They know he is infinitely intellectually
superior to them and they can’t admit it.
Factor in the
demographic results that made news yesterday and they will really unleash a
hate campaign. The nation’s birthrate data
now indicates that the majority population (NB-1yr) is a former minority
populace. The United States is no longer
going to be a WASP nation. The world has
changed beneath them and will never be put back the way it was. The hate mongers can’t do shit about it!
We’re going
to be treated to all sorts of propaganda released by groups that “Just want to
take our country back.” They are serious
about “back.” They mean prior to the
Civil War, prior to the 13th and 14th Amendments, prior
to the lunch counter sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and the voting registration
summer of 1964. They will use every lie
they can put out to inflame hatred among the un-educated.
And here’s
the good and bad; we have to let them lie. To stop them using public airways
and the media outlets would make us the people they claim we are; the people
they actually are. But there is nothing
to prevent us countering their lies with truth.
The same freedoms they use to destroy this nation can be used to destroy
them.
It takes a
lot of patience and a lot of determination.
It takes a thick skin and a lot of friends to prop us up when the road
gets rocky and lonely.
Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org/ is one of the
bests sources available to find out whom these hate groups are and where they are.
They’re all over, among us, but they can be beaten.
I’ve spent a
lot of time this month breaking in a smart phone. It will play music if I can convince it do
play music. It can serve as a video
conferencing device. It can do all
manner of things that were once considered science fiction. What it appears to be best at is trying to
sell me movies, music, and other entertainment items that I have no interest in
buying. I have no need for a music
service to sell me the latest popular music releases. I have a carefully, lovingly acquired library
of very good music that I love to listen to.
So thanks to all you folks who make it so easy to hand you money. I’ll take a bit longer and puzzle out how to
teach my smart phone what I know.
Shabbat Shalom!
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