Today, there are two opinion columns I’d like to see widely
circulated. Both can be found in the
Washington Post:
A vote for
the future or for the past?
“By Harold Meyerson, Published: October 30
The 2012 presidential
election is fundamentally a contest between our future and our past. Barack
Obama’s America is the America that will be; Mitt Romney’s is the America that
was. And the distance between the two is greater, perhaps, than in any election
we’ve had since the Civil War…”
“Warfare
waged by the upper class
By Katrina vanden
Heuvel,
Cassi
Creek:
Meyerson writes about the inability of
the GOP and its teavangelist core to move forward into a more diverse
society. He points out the efforts made
by George W, Bush to bring about immigration reform and to encourage minority
participation in the GOP. Due to the
rabid anti-immigrant nature of the teavangelists, the GOP is fully fueled with
a new load of bigotry, racism, and fundamentalist/evangelical Christianity that
will allow the figureheads and demagogues to steer the GOP’s ship of fools
straight onto a bank of shoals and reefs guaranteed to rip its belly out.
The end, says Meyerson, is
inevitable. Failure to accept the
changing nature of the U.S.’ demographics will sink the GOP. The only uncertainties are how rapidly it
will sink and how many of the teavangelists it will carry down with it. The sooner and the more, the better.
Vanden Heuvel looks directly at the frequently denied class
warfare that sits poised to split the nation apart on economic lines. The GOP owners are so blinded by their own
self-designated indispensable nature that they can’t see the potential to find
their selves riding a tumbrel toward the public square for a quick acquaintance
with mob rule and justice.
I’m not a fan of vigilante justice or
mob rule – after all the teavangelists are mob-borne and lack the collective
intelligence to spell “justice” with the aid of a dictionary. I see no difference in a lynch mob and a
vigilante/kangaroo court. America doesn’t
need to return to public hangings, particularly now when the Romney-Ryan
supporters would demand that the public be charged admission to view the
event. That, I think, is one of the very
real dangers of a Romney-Ryan win next month.
However, the upper class financiers
who stole billions and manipulated the bailouts that kept them from prison by
dumping the cost of bank solvency directly onto the American working and middle
classes, need to be given a taste of the personal damage that they brought down
upon our citizenry.
The good thing about the reign of
terror was the terror it engineered and delivered. The banking/investment giants, hedge-funders,
and the rest of the Wall Street denizens who think that their stolen wealth
will always exempt them from harm need to be taught a harsh lesson. This class war will become much more real if
the plunderers suddenly are plundered.
Gated communities are not proof against a determined mob with a sapper
or two working for the mob. A week or so
of kangaroo courts with justice for the people who lost their savings to the
new robber barons being carried out at the long ladder and short rope should
provide a new respect for banking regulations.
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