Cassi Creek:
The eastern
sky, over and beyond our house, was bright orange and red this morning. Combine this with the gusty winds that blew
from the south last night and early this morning, and it accentuates the line
of rain showers sliding up the ridges toward our corner of the country. The predicted rain is clearly on the map and
moving toward us like the trenches that redrew Europe’s demographics during
WWI.
The GOP/teavangelists
have spent the last 5 days trying to determine who, what, and why they will not
be dispossessing the Obama family from the White House. They will spend millions, perhaps billions,
on focus groups, polls, retreats, and other assorted attempts to find a
believable and valid answer to explain their defeat. I’d be quite willing to tell them why they
lost; for a nominal fee of course, but less, I’m sure, than their current
strategists, propagandists, and lobbyists will charge them for explaining their
own failures.
Using the
Nixon Southern Strategy was a huge mistake.
Using the Reagan welfare queen ploy was also. Romney’s 47% diatribe dug him a huge
hole. And the continuing alliance with
the American Taliban and the racists at the core of the teavangelist
demonstrated how distant the GOP has become from the America that was the
magnet for so many immigrants who risked everything to come here.
The promise
to “take back America” begs the
question, “from whom?” In the course of
two generations my extended family has changed from Caucasian in make up to a
broader portrait of American Demographics that includes Native Americans, European
Caucasians, African-Americans, Latinos, Chinese- Canadians, and who knows what
transient participants. Factor in at
least one out of the closet Gay, a Lesbian or two, and you begin to fill in the
proper demographic makeup for a modern American extended family. To further explain the GOP loss, that
campaign should recognize that this single family contains atheists, Jews,
Roman Catholics, and almost any faith one can imagine except WASP
evangelicals. Billy and Franklin are not
welcome at the door.
So the party
of Palin, Huckabee, Rove, Romney, & Ryan needs to understand this
clearly. I’m describing only one,
relatively small, American family that contains DAR eligible members, veterans
of two wars, immigrants from Scotland, England, Holland, Czarist and Soviet
Russia as well as Native Americans. We
have worked long years paying for Social Security, SSDI, and other financial
safety net features, We’ve damaged our bodies in the service of our
nation. We accept the paybacks from the
insurance premiums we’ve paid into as earned, not some entitlement that we’re
stealing from the nation. We aren’t
scamming senior citizens out of their Social Security and Medicare benefits by
trying to factor in a voucher system for health care that is designed from
inception to be inadequate. We’re not
religious demagogues who set up offshore bank accounts on money they collect
under false pretences.
Take back
America? We are
America! Gloria and I are part of a
huge, well-intentioned, piece of the American fabric that will continue to melt
into the demographic stew that is America.
Until the GOP realizes this, they will continue to be misled by robber
barons, financial house thieves, and the continual cacophony of a
poorly-educated, mob that lives on hatred and discord.
Look at our
armed forces, look at our universities, and look at our families who proudly
pursue citizenship in their new nation.
Those
families and millions more like them are the reason that Obama won and that you
old-line GOPer/teavangelists lost and will continue to lose. I’ll send you my bill for services. Cash only.
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