Why Not "The Roots of The Tea Party's Rage" ?

D'souza, Dinesh, The Roots of Obama's Rage
WASHINGTON DC: Regnery Publishing INC. 2010.


Among the innumerable books being published about President Obama is an offering by author and public speaker Dinesh D'souza, best known for his book The End of Racism and his multiple appearances on Bill Maher's old television show Politically Incorrect. D'Souza is a noted conservative who's affiliations include The American Enterprise Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. D'souza also worked as an advisor in The Reagan White House.

In the book, D'sousa admits the slurs aimed at then candidate and current President Obama, such as Obama not being a natural born citizen of The United States, that Obama is a "crypto" Muslim, and that Obama is a radical "socialist" , are as absurd as they are unfounded. Then, amazingly, the author presents his thesis, which is; Obama is an Afrocentric "anti - colonial" radical carrying out his father's mission to humble "white" Euro -imperialists.

What follows is the usual misinformation and worn out Republican platitudes one has come to expect from increasingly hysterical conservative "think tanks". In what has become the "Tea" Party strategy of appealing to America's Lowest Common Denominator, D'souza shares his opinion "The U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s", and an "inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son", President Obama. Of course, the book will be almost comical at times to anyone not predisposed and hungry to believe the smear of conservative propaganda, and the litany of conservative complaints against Obama, which predictably boils down to Obama's agenda to ruin the country via increasing taxes on affluent Americans and megacorporations, initiating Health Care reforms, scaling back the military budget, and curbing wreckless polluters with new cap and trade laws. Besides comic relief, the book may serve as a reminder to Americans who voted for Obama, and have been disappointed with his compromise with Republicans, what the president has managed to achieve during his first term in office.

In The End, the author closes with a quote from Ronald Reagan, but the true irony may be found in the book's title itself, a book about a president who conveys a calm dignity, meant for an audience of enraged corporate "Tea" Party Republican dupes.

The State of Florida is The Big Prize in The 2012 Election

Florida is the largest of the "swing" states in America , and it is the biggest prize in the 2012 election. Obama won Florida in 2008 , but Republican "Tea" party candidate Rick Scott was elected Governor in 2010. Republicans are pouring money into election campaigns, and The Republican National Committee is counting on their upcoming convention in Tampa to assure The Republican Party carries The State in The 2012 Election.

"We've got to win Florida to save this country and beat Barack Obama. There's no other way around it, " says The Republican National Committee Chairman.

Meanwhile , President Obama and his campaign advisers see Florida as the key to his re -election.

So it seems The State of Florida is "Ground Zero" in the crucial upcoming elections. In a state which leads the nation in bankruptcies and foreclosures, the economy is going to be the main issue. "I can't see how Barack Obama can possibly win Florida in 2012 given the fact that our economy is in a ditch and he drove it in the ditch," claims The Republican National Committee Chairman , echoing the falsehood put forth by FOX News, "Talk" Radio, & Koch Industries; but blaming Bush probably won't play well with Florida voters at this point in Obama's administration either. Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz , hand picked by the president to run The Democratic National Committee , says, " That's a bold statement coming from the chair of a party working to end Medicare as we know it and slash Social Security" ; a statement which should get the attention of Florida's legion of retired seniors - even those inclined to vote Republican.

Republicans even hope to defeat Democratic Senator Bill Nelson and gain even more seats in The House of Representatives. The first African-American Republican Congressman from Florida since 1876 , who was endorsed by Sarah Palin , was elected in 2010. Congressman Allen West , supported by The "Tea" Party Republicans , was quick to point to his campaign as a rebuttal to accusations Tea Bag Republicans are inherently racist. Congressman West became a member of The Congressional "Tea" Party Caucus in 2011 , and has made frequent appearances on FOX News.

West manages to stay a focus of national news for his absurd "comments" which are cheered on by "Tea" Party Republican extremists. The latest involves an ongoing "feud" he has with Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz.

Despite having a Democratic majority of registered voters , Republicans dominate elections in Florida. Republicans solidified their dominance state-wide by winning the governor's mansion and maintained firm majorities in both houses of the state legislature. It would seem the only prayer Democratic candidates have in Florida to protect citizens from further exploitation and oppression from The "Tea" Party Republican Machine is to counter the propaganda with facts ,organize , and get out the votes. Like in 2000 , the future of The United States of America may depend on which way voters "swing" in Florida.

AMERICA's Ongoing Economic Predicament

Politicians in Washington DC spent the majority of the year arguing over how to reduce The National Debt, and although a new Debt Ceiling Bill was signed into law, massive debt is a symptom, not the cause, of the economic collapse in The United States of America and The Great Recession.

The Cause of the retarded economy in America is the vast accumulation of income by the wealthiest Americans which was siponed off from everyone else. The Rich in America defend their disproportionate affluence with Social Darwinism, and use The "Tea" Party to convince "Christian" conservatives and the less educated in America their plight is all part of God's will. Meanwhile, nothing is being done to correct the inequities and insecurity caused by Republican fiscal policies which caused The Great Recession to begin with.

Those whom were "Bailed Out" were quick to declare the recession over, and they have used the funds from The Bail Out they recieved from American taxpayers to lobby against any "change" to the current status quo. Meanwhile, it has become clear to any sane American The Bush Tax Cuts for wealthy Americans who don't need them have to be repealed. The Rich use the increased income from "tax cuts" to speculate, not to create jobs, no matter what Libertarian and Republican propagandists say. Republicans seek to gain elected "Government" offices by bashing government and invoking a dubious morality.

What the current intellegentsia in America just doesn't seem to "get" is, the overwhelming majority of consumers in The United States is made up of wage earners, and they can't afford to buy anything - except on "credit" - and that,of course, is where "debt" creeps into the picture. Americans can no longer afford to be duped by FOX News, "Tea" Party Republican sophists in the employ of Koch Industries, or "Judeo" Christan evangelicals funded by plutocrats from the Oil Corporations. All one has to do is crack open an American History book to see the "solutions" being offered by Republicans to the mess they created in the first place failed to work during The Great Depression, and they won't work now in the 21st century. "Rugged" individualists inspired by Ayn Rand novels are only making the economic depression worse, and as a result, The United States of America is being consumed by GREED which is leading to the nation's collective ruin.

Is The Tea Party Simply The John Birch Society All Over Again?

The rising "populist" movement among Republicans claiming to be "independent" of political party affiliations calling itself the "Tea" Party has a eerie familiarity to it. Is there any real difference between the bogus astroturf Republican front group calling itself the "tea" party and The John Birch Society in America during the '60's & '70's ?

Similar to the Tea Party movement, The John Birch Society was an American radical right-wing political advocacy group which "pioneered" grassroots lobbying, combining educational meetings, petition drives and letter-writing campaigns, and whose major preoccupation was the internal "Communist" conspiracy in The United States.

Like the "Tea" party, funding for The John Birch Society came mostly from well connected establishment figures like Fred Koch, founder of Koch Industries, whose sons are currently paying for "Tea" party political ads and events throughout The United States. The sensationalism of the charges against political rivals and the abusive tactics of intimidation and misrepresentation of facts employed by the "Tea" party resemble those of The John Birch Society as well. Thanks to the "Tea" Party Republicans, the right-wing upsurge in American politics has taken an ugly, even Fascist turn, much like they did in the 1960's at the time President Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. & Robert Kennedy were assassinated. After the election of Ronald Reagan as president of The United States of America & the "Reagan Revolution" Conservative Republicans were pacified by the destruction of The Democratic party for a generation and the complete take over of America by corporate conservatives, and the society's membership and influence declined after 1985.

But after George W. Bush completely destroyed The United States, and Barack Obama was elected president, "birchers" re -emerged as "birthers" with a staggering speed which can not be attributed to "grassroots" activity alone. The Tea Party was born and began to fuel the toxic political climate by confusing simple minded people by presenting facts out of context or in misleading ways (with the help of FOX News) distorting history and The Constitution for political purposes, and with the aid of the "Religious" Right, religious charlatans began teaching their congregations Jesus and The Bible are opposed to "progressive" taxation, and liberal "attacks" on the Tea Party were just like attacks on Jesus, and "Democrats" are evil and anti-God.

As a result, many well intentioned Americans are being duped by fast-talking, self-promoting, Republican Party activists into to being the dupes and minions for the corporate agenda. The "Tea" party carries on a sick tradition of Republican politics which fuel fear and tension in America, which includes McCarthyism, and other conspiratorial groups who seek to confuse working Americans while international corporations enthrall them deeper into slavery.

Romney in 2012 ?

President Obama seems somewhat secure come re -election time due to the list of Republican front runners he may face. This of course doesn't explain why Obama has failed to deliver the "change" his campaign promised, or why he has surrendered on almost every issue to Republican demands. Perhaps when he considers rivals such as Sarah Palin, or the other paid FOX News pundits who will be seeking the Republican nomination, Obama feels there aren't enough selfish crazy Americans to vote for these people in a national election.

But there is one Republican front - runner who has, up until the recent Conservative Political Action Conference, kept away from the FOX News "Tea" party extremism. Although Mitt Romney made some absurd statements, such as blaming Obama for the "Hoovervilles" in America and saying Obama's State of the Union address sounded like his own CPAC speech from the previous year (perhaps that isn't so absurd)Romney would be the most formidable opponent Obama could face in his effort to be re -elected in 2012.

When one considers Romney signed a health care law in Massachusetts as governor, which is similar to the health care law signed by President Obama , and the fact Obama has seemingly abandoned his "base" and the people who voted for him in the first place in the futile effort to arrive at "bipartisan" solutions, many Democrats who bother to vote in 2012 could indeed vote for Mitt Romney.

Romney won the election for Governor of Massachusetts , not exactly a "conservative" state, in 2002, but did not seek reelection in 2006. During his term, he presided over a series of spending cuts and increases in fees while the state's finances improved. As long as the economy remains a disaster, Romney remains a viable candidate with a record of success. Romney signed into law the landmark Massachusetts health care reform legislation which provided near-universal health insurance access via subsidies and state-level mandates, so it seems unlikely repealing "Obamacare" would be at the top of his agenda.

Of course Romney would have to gain the Republican nomination, and will be accused of not being "conservative" enough, but campaign finances won't be a problem for him, as indeed it is becoming ever more obvious since the "Citizens United" case American elected offices will be going to the highest bidder, and he will certainly seem more sane to moderates repulsed by Sarah Palin and her FOX News cohorts.

Obama better get started on some of this "change" he was supposed to bring about, because so far there has been very little if any. The only change since Obama was elected has been a Democratic president pushing Republican policies. If Romney gets the Republican nomination in 2012, he may very well win The Election.

Concern About American Jobs

Ask yourself why
The U.S. keeps bringing in 1.5 million foreign workers
a year to take American jobs.

Americans increasingly sign away their humanity
when they sign an employment contract.
Most Americans work where drug testing is standard practice.
The irony is it is usually only the menial
and subservient who are "tested".
Republicans prefer an environment where they can
exploit their workers to whatever degree they see fit.
Republicans despise unions because they work in the wage earner's favor,
providing a check on the ability of organizations to intimidate ,
humiliate, underpay and overwork employees.

Real wages are lower today
than they were before the recession of 2001,
and barely higher than they were thirty-five years ago.
The U.S. allows more than 1.5 million foreign workers
a year to legally enter the U.S. for jobs.
That doesn't include millions of illegal foreign workers,
at a time when many claim to be concerned
for the internal security of America.
How could this be ?
There can only be one answer.

The only priority higher than ending the "Islamo -fascist" threat
is making sure wages remain low and labor is cheap and disorginized.
Why do you think Republicans keep creating these "recessions"
in the first place ?

FIRST MAJOR ADDRESS

In his first major address to the nation Obama unveiled bold new steps to reign in the culture of "greed" which has infected American society for too long. CEOs enriching themselves while profits dwindle and jobs are lost will be limited in executive pay if they are to recieve any "bailout" from U.S. taxpayers.
Obama said Americans are upset with “executives being rewarded for failure".
Wall Street firms paid more than $18 billion in bonuses in 2008 amid the economic downturn. “This is America. We don’t disparage wealth. We don’t begrudge anybody for achieving success,” Obama said. “But what gets people upset — and rightfully so — are executives being rewarded for failure [i.e. corporate welfare]. Especially when those rewards are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.”

The restrictions will not apply to firms like American International Group Inc., Bank of America Corp., and Citigroup Inc., etc. which already revcieved 'bailouts'from The Bush Administeation. In the future, firms wishing to pay executives above a $500,000 threshold will have to use stock which can't be sold or liquidated until the corporation pays back the government funds.

Obama said massive severance packages for executives who leave failing firms are going to be eliminated. “We’re taking the air out of their golden parachutes.” The president referred to the fact burden and risk have been distributed among the many for too long while reward has been selfishly hoarded by the few. As during the campaign, when Obama could bearly conceal his contempt for the corrupt Bush Administration, the president reminded the population
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS has been "..... years in the making".

To clarify, these are the shifts in policy beginning with the Reagan years in 1981. Failed policies, such as "supply"- side "trickle"- down economics,were sold to the American public. TAX-CUTS, while initiating a military-industrial spending spree remedied by "tightening the belts" of the folks at home. In these years the first laws restricting personal liberties were enacted and brutaly enforced. De-regulation was the dogma , while 'secret' funds were sent to Islamic "freedom" fighters opposing The Evil Empire in Afghanistan.

Dallas was the most popular show on television. The Reagan Administration claimed it didn't deal with "terrorists" , but we came to know later the U.S. was committed to foreign intriques beyond the comprehention of the average American. But at the time, "confidence" was restored, and the economic and fuel issues seemed to be put aside. In 1989, George H.W. Bush succeeded Reagan, continuing Republican executive dominance for 4 more years. Early in his term, Bush faced the problem of what to do with leftover deficits spawned by the Reagan years.
Bush was forced by the Democratic Congress to raise tax revenues; as a result, many Republicans felt betrayed because Bush had promised them "no new taxes!"

America entered into a recession. The unemployment rate edged upward in 1991. The unemployment rate reached 7.8%, its highest rate since 1984. The Census Bureau reported 14.2% of all Americans lived in poverty. During this time, the Bush administration initiated the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), eliminating the majority of tariffs on products traded among the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

In the 1992 U.S. Presidential Campaign, Clinton and the Democrats attacked Bush for not doing enough to assist the working middle-class and for being "out of touch" with the common man,and the majority of Americans agreed.

In the aftermath of THE COLD WAR, economic prosperity returned, and due in part to the personal scandal involving President Clinton, and the fact there were no percieved "issues" of importance, Americans returned to the "laissez-faire" economics of The Republicans and elected George W. Bush as president.

Well, we have all seen what a disaster that has turned out to be. For some historians and astute political observers much of
WHAT HAPPENED was to be expected,but the shear magnitude of corruption combined with ineptitude exceeded even most worst fears. It reminds one of the TV Drama Dallas back in the 1980's and is key to President Obama's subtle reminder to Americans the disasters the U.S. faces have indeed been years in the making

A Police State exists when the Government serves itself rather than the People, when government aggrandizes itself rather than responding to the needs of the Commonwealth.





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