oh, look. a rock. is that a Roman numeral? really?
2010-Mar-24, Wednesday 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerSo many more interesting things are happening in the world, but this teabagger nonsense is what I finally settle to pondering today.
The irony is rich. I think these people are the same ones who spent their lives believing that minorities should be kept in their (lower) place. Now that they themselves are the minority, they don't understand what has gone wrong in their lives. Why has their democratic authority disappeared? They don't realize (even as they saw it happening) that minorities gain what they want by cooperatively soliciting help and intelligently describing their plight so as to warrant compassionate response from the majority. They've experienced no compassion themselves for the suffering of other minorities, so it doesn't occur to them that they could receive such generosity too. Instead, they're reaching for their weapons while claiming that they're the ones trying to save the democracy that they care so much about.
I said before in my own words that I do not trust these people: "I'm arguing that the threshold of violent behavior has already shifted and will continue to shift." It's no longer about political disagreement. It's about people who failed to make their intellectual point, who failed to make their democratic point, who now want to rely on bully threats to win their way.
These people seem comfortable with abandoning the current government in favor of something else. I wish they were smart enough to correctly name the "something else" that they want. Unfortunately, they're not that smart. They keep insisting that they want to save democracy... which is the very process that they're unhappy with because they aren't getting what they want. Is it too late to explain to them that minorities get what they want by asking for the help of other empowered groups? Blacks in America convinced whites to fight on their behalf; women in America convinced men to vote on their behalf; gays in America are convincing straights to argue on their behalf. Democracy is powerful and transformative.
Republicans still think the teabaggers are on their side. They're trying to nullify the recent health care legislation. One (Reagan era) former administrator says "similar attempts at "so-called nullification" led to the Civil War." Republicans are almost cute in their childlike ignorance; they still think they can control the teabaggers even while goading them onwards. At least one of them knows better, though: "The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party."
Ah well. I'll leave you with their images and their words. As Rachel Maddow warns today (after bricks shatter glass at some Democratic party headquarters), let's see what happens here in America on April 19th.
Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!" Pls see my Facebook page.
- Sarah Palin, http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/statuses/10935548053
So, if you wish to send a message that Pelosi and her party cannot fail to hear, break their windows.
Break them NOW.
Break them and run to break again. Break them under cover of night. Break them in broad daylight. Break them and await arrest in willful, principled civil disobedience. Break them with rocks. Break them with slingshots. Break them with baseball bats.
But BREAK THEM.
The time has come to take your life, your liberty and that of your children and grandchildren into your own two hands and ACT.
It is, after all, more humane than shooting them in self defense.
And if we do a proper job, if we break the windows of hundreds, thousands, of Democrat party headquarters across this country, we might just wake up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a rifle unnecessary.
- Mike Vanderboegh, http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-all-modern-sons-of-liberty-this-is.html
(the same guy who is telling whoever will listen that we "need to be forming neighborhood defense organizations")
Proverbs 8:36: ... All they that hate me love death.
Editorial translation to Teabaggery: Jesus wants us to use our guns on you. Or our waterboards. Whichever is more satisfying (for us).
The irony is rich. I think these people are the same ones who spent their lives believing that minorities should be kept in their (lower) place. Now that they themselves are the minority, they don't understand what has gone wrong in their lives. Why has their democratic authority disappeared? They don't realize (even as they saw it happening) that minorities gain what they want by cooperatively soliciting help and intelligently describing their plight so as to warrant compassionate response from the majority. They've experienced no compassion themselves for the suffering of other minorities, so it doesn't occur to them that they could receive such generosity too. Instead, they're reaching for their weapons while claiming that they're the ones trying to save the democracy that they care so much about.
I said before in my own words that I do not trust these people: "I'm arguing that the threshold of violent behavior has already shifted and will continue to shift." It's no longer about political disagreement. It's about people who failed to make their intellectual point, who failed to make their democratic point, who now want to rely on bully threats to win their way.
These people seem comfortable with abandoning the current government in favor of something else. I wish they were smart enough to correctly name the "something else" that they want. Unfortunately, they're not that smart. They keep insisting that they want to save democracy... which is the very process that they're unhappy with because they aren't getting what they want. Is it too late to explain to them that minorities get what they want by asking for the help of other empowered groups? Blacks in America convinced whites to fight on their behalf; women in America convinced men to vote on their behalf; gays in America are convincing straights to argue on their behalf. Democracy is powerful and transformative.
Republicans still think the teabaggers are on their side. They're trying to nullify the recent health care legislation. One (Reagan era) former administrator says "similar attempts at "so-called nullification" led to the Civil War." Republicans are almost cute in their childlike ignorance; they still think they can control the teabaggers even while goading them onwards. At least one of them knows better, though: "The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party."
Ah well. I'll leave you with their images and their words. As Rachel Maddow warns today (after bricks shatter glass at some Democratic party headquarters), let's see what happens here in America on April 19th.
Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!" Pls see my Facebook page.- Sarah Palin, http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/statuses/10935548053
So, if you wish to send a message that Pelosi and her party cannot fail to hear, break their windows.Break them NOW.
Break them and run to break again. Break them under cover of night. Break them in broad daylight. Break them and await arrest in willful, principled civil disobedience. Break them with rocks. Break them with slingshots. Break them with baseball bats.
But BREAK THEM.
The time has come to take your life, your liberty and that of your children and grandchildren into your own two hands and ACT.
It is, after all, more humane than shooting them in self defense.
And if we do a proper job, if we break the windows of hundreds, thousands, of Democrat party headquarters across this country, we might just wake up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a rifle unnecessary.
- Mike Vanderboegh, http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-all-modern-sons-of-liberty-this-is.html
(the same guy who is telling whoever will listen that we "need to be forming neighborhood defense organizations")
Proverbs 8:36: ... All they that hate me love death.
Editorial translation to Teabaggery: Jesus wants us to use our guns on you. Or our waterboards. Whichever is more satisfying (for us).
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Date: 2010-Mar-24, Wednesday 02:55 pm (UTC)It's so weird about the way they frame themselves as oppressed because they're no longer superior. Before they didn't have to even try, they were automatically in a better position. Also funny how the white suprematists consider gays to be non-white regardless of their race.
I also find it funny that one of the two far-right wing parties that Americans have to choose from is referred to as "the left". It's like referring to November as "summer" because it's less cold than January.
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Date: 2010-Mar-24, Wednesday 03:33 pm (UTC)I agree about the generational issue. I think that fear of "other" is innate but that hatred of "other" is learned. Liberals won. Hatred of women, hatred of non-pink-skins, and hatred of homos is not the lesson that a generation has learned (after efforts of generations like mine, I'm glad to point out).
I agree that the Democratic old guard is part of the problem too. Personally, I think that Nancy Pelosi is a traitor and should be tried in court alongside Dick Cheney from crimes against the Constitution. But that's a different issue.
I agree that the nation is in a severe state of disrepair. I think it might still be repairable, but what I want is to start over. Let's try something new. I want to experience demarchy. I want to experience a constitution with a new bill of rights. (With a Privacy clause, for instance, and an Information clause that insists all information is free for use and therefore eliminates copyright, and a Generational clause that insists we have responsibilities to the natural resources of future generations of Americans.) Conservatives rail against Democrats as being progressives. *LAUGH* They really have no idea how much change some of us are ready to experience. Democrats are slowing us down. :)