Eugene Robinson and his friends at times have the ability to look beyond a problem and into the recesses of their own shadowed perceptions. They do this solely to prove their opinions have weight and the solemnity of their prose is indicative of their drive to get you to see it their way. in othe3r words: when all else fails and logic proves evasive in its ability to nurture the development of an argument, pull out the race card. It’s a tried and true way to win the point. Nobody can argue against it without being immediately stained by the inference.
On November 2nd, in The Advocate Op-ed pages he said it was “NOT racist to criticize Barack Obama”. It is “NOT racist to have conservative views”. It is “NOT racist to join the Tea Party”. But then he goes on to say “there’s something about the nature and tone of the vitriolic attacks on the president that I believe is distinctive, and difficult to explain without asking whether race is playing a role”. Then he goes on to speak of Tea Party activists wanting to take back the country from somebody, possibly “non-American people” or “un-American people”.
Robinson suggests that Progressives would best define who should be removed from their efforts to control America: lobbyists and special interests. It’s here I agree with him (something I never dreamed I would say!). But then he pushes me away again by sliding into the standard party line of attacking George Bush and his policies. Mr. Robinson then applies standard liberal logic by asking why nobody attacked Bush as vehemently as they go after Obama.
Truth is; they did. Old George was depicted by every liberal political pundit as dumber than French fried rocks and twice as thick when cast in the concrete of their reasoning. I agree with him there also. But it’s got nothing to do with racism: unless you accept the proposition that politicians consider themselves a race apart from all others.
In the analysis necessary to better see why “nobody” (?) vilified Bush in the same manner as to suggest America was removed from her citizenry I must state I’m sorry I didn’t get fed up soon enough for you Eugene. Why didn’t you use the argument earlier and more forcefully and take the lead on the matter. This distancing of the American people didn’t start with Obama, Bush, Clinton or Bush Sr. It goes backward in history beyond FDR. It really enjoyed its genesis under Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, but before that there were those wanting to drop government’s yoke across the neck of the American people to harness the political energy making their party’s strength superior to all others.
It’s money breeding power and contaminating the seed of American industry that separates people from their government and fuels the drive to get it back from the paternalist’s efforts to direct it and control it so no other class can gain ascendancy over them. It’s okay to seek equality as long as it’s not within their circles. Go and be equal outside the walls of their sequestered enclaves and the halls of Congress where their money and power breed more of the same genetically and generationally. They want your input (they can always say it was their idea, as the Republicans are claiming with their “Contracts with America” and other tasty sound bites); but they don’t want your participation. It scares them because when you participate, it’s recognizable who says what, when they said it, the impact it had (and has) and finally it is recordable as to what effect it brought about and how lame their efforts were in comparison.
We’re trying to take our country back from the politicians Eugene: the careerist wannabe diplomats and faux statesmen they believe themselves to be. We want our voice recorded in referenda and elections held to determine OUR voice as it’s spoken: not as it’s been twisted, interpreted and filtered through party diatribe and static scrambled ideology of partisan dogma for the benefit of the politicos.
We finally hit the tipping point where Americans want to run their lives and direct their kid’s futures.
Try to keep up Eugene. Nobody wants to play with your racist deck anymore.
Thanks for listening
