Now Is a Really Bad Time to Compromise

Randy Rhodes was talking on the subject of how polarized we are in America today.  I’d like to contrast this campaign with Nixon’s 1968 campaign when he ran on a platform of peace and consiliation and “Bring Us Together”.  Nixon felt “safe” that year.  Non threatening.  If Mitt Romney wins the White House he will go down in history as the Herbert Hoover of the 21^st Century bringing this economy to total ruin and the worst presidential leader since James Buchannon, who was right before the Civil War, when this nation was going to hell in a hand basket and he did nothing.  Mitt Romney knows nothing about leadership of actual people.  And if Mitt Romney wins, Barock Obama will always have the status as an elder statesman ex President.  On the other hand if Mitt Romney loses this election he will have nothing.  He’ll have to go back to Bain Capital knowing that his involvement with them was the very issue that got him defeated this year.  His FCC tax forms state that he was employed by Bain Capital till 2001 or 2002 when Romney has been telling people he left in 1999 before all of the “outsourcing” stuff started, at least according to him.  Now the media is all over him for it.  But Randy was playing all of these hostile statements against this President even Romney’s who says “Basically this President hates white people”.  Others just lump him with socialists, niggers and Moslems.  Newt Gringrich falsely states that Obama prides himself on being the greatest food stamp president of all time.  Others just wonder “why all these lazy niggers just don’t go out and get a job and stop taking hand-outs from the government, money from White people”.  One might like to strike up a note of consiliation but these people make that impossible.  I don’t know how it can be done.  Now Wells Fargo has been fingered for targeting Blacks and Latinos steering them into high interest rate loans, where White people with the same financial balance sheet would be steered into decent loans.  Thom Hartman is continuing with this saga of the rigged Voting Machines, this time in the Wisconsin recall.  The exit polls were tied even fifty – fifty.  And yet Governor Walker had a six or seven point margin of victory.  Hartman points out that if we were evaluating an election in another part of the world such as South America and the same thing occurred there with exit polling discrepancy, we would know funny stuff had gone on and that the election should be run over.  But we don’t hold our own country to the same standard.  And now we learn that Mitt Romney imported his own token Blacks into that NAACP meeting to cheer for him and afterwards Romney falsely said “Many people came to me from the NAACP afterwards to inform me that they were unhappy with President Obama’s policies”.  But the records show that absolutely no rank and file NAACP members met with Romney.  They always say, “You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts”.  Lying seems to be the Tea Party’s weapon of choice.  They lie every minute of the day.  They even lied about when their organization began.  They claim it was a response of 2010 to the passage of Health Care and the continuing failed economy.  In reality men met together the day the President took office to conspire how they could make Obama a one term president.  The tea party was officially launced in mid April of 2009 not ten - - around tax season, before the Health Care bill was passed and before the Obama economic stimulus had any chance to work to begin with.  I told you about the timing of John Mc Cain’s lie in 2008 saying “I only said the economy was sound to try and encourage people after the financial collapse, when the remarks were made BEFORE the collapse, and when the collapse came it made Mc Cain look stupid.   This upcoming republican convention may be the first one I deliberately don’t watch.  The hypocrisy is just too much.

People most usually bring up the subject of “Appeasment” in connection with some national despot such as Stalin or Hitler.  They remind us that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  There were voices warning against Hitler in the thirties well it became obvious what he was on November 9^th 1938.   It was just then we got the operator cutting in saying “Your time is up” and the connection terminates.  My advice is don’t wait until THAT happens.  Samson in the Bible had warnings.  Lot, also in the Bible, had warnings.  Neither was all that interested in heeding them.  Late 1986 was a warning to this nation.  We learned about Iran Contra and how Ronald Reagan put off holding a press conference for months until Nancy Reagan, who was really running the country, told him the stars were properly aligned for one.  We learned about how Bill Casey torpedoed the “October Surprise” where Carter had a plan to bring home the hostages in Iran.  We hear that they performed brain surgery on Bill Casey the day before ht was to testify before a comgressional committee about it, rendering him incapable of speech.  We learned that TOW missiles were sold to Iran, our sworn enemy and that the money was laundered through Saudi Arabia and that money was also used to buy cocaine to flood Los Angeles with, and the rest of it was used to fund the Contras in a war that congress had declared illegal.  For all of this President Reagan got a pass, on the excuse he was senile or “out of the loop” or whatever.  We now move to twenty years later and once again we hear this talk about “things can’t get any worse” and “lets put all this negativity behind us’ as far as the misdeeds of the Bush and Chaney administration.  Nancy Pelosi decided not to hold impeachment hearings.  Just today we learn that this Republican Congress blocked Eric Holder from investigating election fraud and illegal voter rolls purging.  Apparently this House told the powers that Be - - - “Don’t investigate this” so they didn’t.  Today we are again told that “the pendulum has just GOT to begin swinging back the other way”.  It’s only too bad that political pendulums aren’t subject to the laws of gravity - - or apparently a lot of other laws.  When it comes to political prognostication, we learn the No Superlative Is Too Extreme, as well as the unsetteling truth that “Today’s political Jest becomes Tomorrow’s Reality”.  People say that it’s no big thing if Mitt Romney gets elected President saying “We’ll survive it.  After all we’ve survived a lot of other stuff”.  This case is different and if you don’t see that you’re a fool.  Ed Schultz was saying this morning that “There is no room for the middle of the roaders any more”.  I like he say “I just don’t see where there is any point on which we can compromise”.  Ghandi like passivity won’t but it.  Sometimes I wonder which is worse- - facing down some opponent who has been harassing you- - - or some so called “Friend” saying he’ll operate as mediator but all he ends up doing is hampering every constructive action you take in the name of some kind of “Peace” and “showing you’re not a bad guy”.  So you end up “Living by the rules your Enemy makes for you” and your Friend has now become your Enemy.  They now say that Mitt Romney got off on all that booing at the NAACP because he could show the footage to his White racist audiences saying “Those niggers are all alike”.  Some say President Obama was discouraged from addressing the NAACP because ‘It’s just one nigger talking to a bunch of other niggers who naturally agree with him”.  Time and again Obama has met his Waterloo trying to be a “Nice Guy”.  We can’t have that any more.  We owe the other side no explanation for our morality and in this I would like to now actually Invoke - - Ghandi, who said that “We should not be deturred by their looks or their threats or even their violence from doing what we know we need to do”.  Thomas Jefferson said that the “tree of liberty” must be watered regularly by the blood of tyrants and patriots alike.  Like the song says, “Freedom isn’t free”.  You have to fight for it.  People who lack the Will to preserve their own way of life - - will as they say “get the government they deserve”.   Survival is a very healthy Engram.  And to correct a pernicious lie of St. Paul- - “Seeds that die don’t germinate- - they just end up rotting”.  (Selah)