Displaying 241 To 253 Of 253 Comments community organizer Yes, there’s a consistent thread, isn’t there? As far as radical extremism, the open war on this country is pretty much on full display, especially in Wisconsin. And the District of Columbia v. Heller decision is terrifying – nothing less than the potential overthrow of the nation legitimised in a Supreme Court decision, if you read the fine print. Speaking of moderate Republicans, I was a 1992 Perot voter . . . Remember the ocassional comparisons of the Tea Party with Perot – that was refuted somewhere in an article stating his support was ( as I recall ) 20-21% liberal, 27% conservative, 52-53% moderate, whereas TP is 3/4ths conservative – an apparent conservative replied to me once, “ well yes, he would have been a moderate Republican, TPs are right-wing Republicans ” – ya think? Did you catch the James Loewen Remapping Debate interview? Really essential, great stuff – » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 7, 2011 @ 1:55 pm No, it’s all very sincere – I figure I’m probaly preaching more to the converted here, hence the touch of irony. I got used to dialing it WAY up back at the dreaded-lair-of-the-Queen-Bee-who shall not-be-named ( translation : H. P. [ { spit } ] ) when I was battling the Blameobamabot crowd and rallying the not-so-faithless – remember my streams of glorious boldface-and-capitals quotes from great speeches, etc.? » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 7, 2011 @ 1:38 pm Yaay! He’s back! Instant Favorites Bar status! Friends of Keith How did I miss this? Must have been asleep . . . » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 7, 2011 @ 11:54 am The Nation tells it like it is – http://www.thenation.com/blog/159059/huckabee-replaces-n-word-mau-mau [ P. S. And, needless to add, the two parties are not the same, do NOT stay home in November 2012, ¡¡You-Know-Who 2012 Sí, se puede!! blah blah blah and all that good stuff. Thank you for your time. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 7, 2011 @ 11:44 am For anyone, ahem, familiar with Yahoo comments – In the past week I have noticed, not one but two items on Yahoo with “ There are no comments yet ” posted, and immediately beneath that “ Comments have been closed for thie article ”. Considering that Yahoo comments generally make stormfront look like the Bertrand Russell Appreciation Society, I find this rather noteworthy. ( The most recent instance is for the current article “ New book sheds new light on Lincoln’s racial views Any info on this? Did Yahoo finally get a clue? Or were they finally subjected to pressure? Or what? » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 6, 2011 @ 2:39 am Hi ghsts – My Loewen is a historian ( American sociology and race ) and critic of historical revisionism, maybe yours is a different one? » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 18, 2011 @ 2:58 am I just fixed it, haha, sorry. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 17, 2011 @ 11:52 pm Hello all – » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 17, 2011 @ 11:37 pm The Rewriting of History–The States’ Rights Fable. Thank you linking to this very exceptionally illuminating and relevant discussion. James Loewen’s un-/de-revisionist overview, not only of the causes ( in both senses ) of the Civil War, but of their repercussions to the present day and their centrality in the political life of our nation, was very relevant for me personally as someone who has been deeply alarmed by events of the part two and a half years. In the light of his lucid and forceful analysis, the eruptions of racism, secessionism, and supposed “grievances” of those who feel they are being denied their entitlements ( ironic, that ), are not mere baffling aberrations, but the logical present development of a narrative extending back to the pre-Civil War era ; and the deeply ugly and threatening picture they present is not a paranoid, conspiracy-minded illusion induced by too many hours on the web, but is indeed very real, entirely consistent with our insufficiently acknowledged and understood history, and is exactly what it seems. Such things as Sarah Palin’s secessionist affiliations, or the murmurings of “the problem isn’t Obama, the problem is the fact that he could be elected” ( along with more explicit moves towards voter disenfranchisement, such as the destruction of ACORN, or Tom Tancredo’s call to restore “literacy” tests ), are not mildly alarming but inexplicable, isolated oddities, but logical parts of a very real and very encompassing picture. To give an example of the power and sweep of Mr. Loewen’s argument, we are all aware of the reactions to the election of the current President, and are able characterise them in a manner which is accurate but superficial ( that is, that many people are displeased by the occupation of the White House by an African American ). When, however, Mr. Loewen states — using “neo-Confederacy” to mean not some contemporary fringe revivalist oddity, but a main sociopolitical current in our nation which has proceeded in direct continuity since the Confederacy itself — “the election of President Obama was a serious blow to the neo-Confederacy”, he draws the entire history of our nation, in all of its depth of significance for the present, into a single observation which perfectly encapsulates the present historical situation. The underlying and integral theme of the rewriting of history is, in itself, of the most pressing concern when it is asserted that America is a “Christian nation”, a “Republic, not a Democracy”, that Naziism and Communism were both the spawn of Liberalism ( when Naziism had — and continues to have — far wider and stronger support among conservatives than Communism ever did among liberals ), that Liberalism disenfranchises and enslaves the oppressed. Mr. Loewen analysis of conservative revisionism and the survival of neo-Confederacy as a major political force casts a particular light, as well, on District of Columbia v. Heller. District of Columbia v. Heller is, I believe, far beyond Dred Scott or Plessy, and in an unapproachable category by itself as absolutely the worst decision ever made by the Supreme Court – it is, perhaps, the worst decision that could *possibly* be made – as it literally constitutes a profound and monumental act of treason. The majority decision was authored, of course, by Antonin Scalia, joined by John G. Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito The apparent improper association of Scalia and Thomas ( and probably Roberts as well ) with the Koch brothers — well known to be Bircherite, and thus, yes, neo-Confederate — is a developing story. » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On February 17, 2011 @ 6:07 pm OK, that sounds like it’s from my flailing about yesterday, those can be dumped . . . Chernynkaya’s helping me on my newest attempt right now . . . » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 19, 2011 @ 10:51 am OK, now do I hit submit for review? » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 19, 2011 @ 10:47 am OK, I hit Save Draft, I chose my tags, and I set my featured image ( I think ). What do choose for categories? ( I clicked on news & politics, PlanetPOV, speaker’s corner, and President Obama – or should I just click one? ) And than I want to be sure I submit for review correctly . . . » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 19, 2011 @ 10:37 am Hello, everyone or anyone – anyway, at the moment, I’m on the Add New Post page of Dashboard, I have my text in the text window and nice and perfect (?), and I’m paranoid about losing it if I click on “ set featured image ” or “ choose from the most used tags ”. I always wanty to be sure I “ submit for review ” correctly, because I don’t think I did yesterday . . . » Posted By For America and Roosevelt On March 19, 2011 @ 10:23 amComments Posted By For America and Roosevelt
Chicago
gangster
thug
various synonyms for “ boy ” ( see Rush Limbaugh )
socialist
communist
Marxist
Muslim
“ pals around with terrorists ”
“ not a typical American ”
“ not a real American ”
“ Rev. Wright ”
“ let’s create an endless non-story about the New Black Panther Party ”
“ let’s create an endless non-story about ACORN ”
“ let’s create a non-story about Shirley Sherrod ”
“ liberals who don’t pay taxes and live off handouts ”
“ government union workers who vote Democrat so they’ll get their handouts ”
“ the election of Barack Obama was a major setback for the neo-Confederacy ” ( that puts it about as clearly as possible, doesn’t it? ) –
” – anyone who knows Yahoo can only imagine too well what the comments must have been. )
Barnett’s Wikipedia article is certainly a bit hair-raising . . . I still haven’t even read Brzezinski . . .
Looking over the Remapping Debate site I just discovered thanks to PlanetPOV ( the James Loewen interview posted there really is revelatory, highest recommendation ), I discovered that the new Ha-Joon Chang book, 23 things they don’t tell you about capitalism , was published last month, anyone read it? I’m surprised I missed it, I thought he was slightly higher up on the cultural radar . . . I guess HP {{ spit }} needed the space for another article about how the SOTU meant the exact opposite of what it said, or Queen Bee’s conversation with Phyllis Schlafly about the new Third Way, or something . .
. . . his previous book, Bad Samaritans : the myth of free trade and the secret history of capitalism , was, as I think of it, the only book on economics I’ve ever been motivated to read ( though I don’t remember how that happened ) – notably interesting, enlightening, and memorable.
In wholly fabricating a “right to resist tyranny” which implicitly legitimises violence against the government — in direct contradiction to the basic founding principle of any state, the monopolising of force — the conservative “Justices” have placed a legal nuclear time bomb at the very foundations of the United States itself. The next Timothy McVeigh will be able to plead his Second Amendment rights.
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