We frequently read posts dripping with smug contempt when Americans who are suffering are discussed.
Some Republican supporters claim to love America, but they surely hate a lot of Americans.
And I wrong?
Go back and you'll see how often such contempt was expressed.
And you never read anything like that contempt written by people who do not describe themselves either as Republicans, conseravitives or libertarians.
Never.
My thoery is that these folks feel that since they're doing okay, they get to jeer at those who aren't.
You telling me those are good Americans who love their country?
I beg to differ,
America isn't a land mass it's the people on it.
Hate them, and you hate America.
Are you saying the exact same element doesn't exist on the left? I beg to differ.
ACtually that classist contempt DOES exist in the lofty leadership regions of many so called liberal organizations, Gunny.
I've complained about it on this board, quite often.
But I was referring to the posters here, wasn't I?
And HERE what we have read, often, is a complete and very callous disregard for those who are not making it in America.
Now until the stock market crashed, as the workers pain became the investor pain, those people who expressed such contempt for the working classes, though everything was A-Okay, didn't they?
What we are seeing right now, and what I suspect we will continue to see is that those marginally well off people who indentified with the SUPERWEALTHY, are going to find their working class affiliation as they are systematically fleeced of their affluence through the crash of the economy.
What these class-confused people are finally going to understand is that when our Ship of State goes down?
There won't be room enough for THEM on the economic
lifeYacht that the masters will be sailing off in.
They will discover, as America's working class has been discovering for the last few decades --- one industrial sector at a time -- that they were
merely servants, and as such, they were only ON THE TEAM, as long as they were useful tools of the master class.
In many ways, despite the pain that this is causing us, this
awaking of the social consciouness of the formerly slightly more afflluent classes in America might be beneficial to our society overall.
I truly long for the time when your average Republican Partisan, and your average Democratic Partisan understands that they were NEVER really on the teams they thought they were on.
It's happening to many of us RIGHT NOW.
We've seen examples of it as our resident self-proclaiming, so-called conservatives protested that BUSH IS A LIBERAL.
And, I suspect you suspect, just as I suspect, a shitload of DEMS are ALSO going to become aware that they are NOT of THAT team, either.
I HOPE I'm wrong about that, and Obama's plan actually works. But like my conservative chums on this board, I have my doubts that the PLAN really
can work.
And if it doesn't?
Molly, bar the door! editec will have to, once again, take up gun ownership.
I've been reluctant to own a gun because as you know, I'm a stoner, and the police like to bust us so they can confiscate our guns and claim that since we have guns we must drug dealers (that's no shit, you know..that's
the law)
But if things get too weird, well...I'll want to stand tall with my neighbors to help defend whatever's left of our civilization, too.
