Enough Of This Crap -- Just Cut Them Off
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 6:37 pm
As we have all seen in the last decade or so -- and as those of us who were paying attention saw much earlier than that -- America has been experiencing an alarming rise of people, including otherwise thinking people who have evidently been caught up in the flood, who embrace the essentially anti-American pseudo-ideology of right-wingism.
There isn't really any genuine doubt about the essence of right-wing domestic economic policy: The right-wingers want to impoverish as many people as possible and concentrate as much wealth as possible into as few hands as possible. That isn't news: It's been the essence of right-wing economic policy for as long as right-wing economic policy has existed.
(There will be, unless they have (quite rightly) become ashamed to venture it in public, the usual blather from the right-wingers; accord it the respect it deserves.)
The time has come -- indeed, it came quite a while ago -- for those of us who are not deluded by right-wing lies to step up and put an end to it. And that means ridding ourselves of those parts of our Republic which are evidently mired irremediably in right-wing extremisim.
Alabama, Mississippi, we've had it. We're giving you to Mexico. Or anyone else that will have you. Or no one at all.
Try going it on your own. You have been leeching the progressive (which is, of course, to say good) States for decades. Try getting along without the neverending feedtube you've been getting from the States that actually live in the twenty-first century rather than desperately trying to hang on to the eighteenth.
Oh, by the way, if you try to do something that we think threatens our interests, we will stop you. Go ahead, try to lease oil-drilling rights to a company that does not meet our (progressive; i.e., good) environmental standards. We will destroy it.
And the Dakotas? Fuck off. It was a mistake to make you States at all, let alone separate States. Try joining Canada. If that works well for you, dandy. If it doesn't, and it probably won't, don't come crying to us. Unless, of course, you're willing to sell your agricultural products to us at whatever price we deem fit. Oh, that price doesn't suit you? Fuck off again. (And if you try to sell your products in a way that hampers our national interests, you won't have any products to sell. Oops! How the hell did that happen?)
And Alaska? You're ours. We bought you from the Russians. And we honestly don't give a shit what you like or don't like.
You who are members of native peoples: Of course we will cater to your interests; indeed, we will bend over backward to accommodate your interests, just as we progressive (i.e., good) States have always done.
But the rest of you? Fuck off.
Yeah, you have the oil pipeline. But guess what: Tomorrow, you won't have it any more. We have decided that it is ours, we're taking it, and there is not a goddamned thing that you can do about it. Unless you feel like putting up a bunch of chronically drunk Alaska militiamen against the US military. Good luck with that.
And then there's South California. (Yes, that's right; North California and South California should have been separate States from the beginning, and they should be separated now.) Go ahead; block us. How will you feel when none of North California's water is coming your way? Oops! Canals and pumping stations essential to South California's stealing North California's water are no longer functioning. Gee? How could that have happened?
The bottom line is simple: The progressive -- good -- States (and, at least in the case of California, a portion of a State) can fend for themselves quite successfully in the global economic environment. The right-wing States haven't got a prayer. For all their ideological mouthings, the inescapable truth of the matter is that without the advanced States, the right-wing States have nothing in store for them except third-world status.
So let's just do the right thing: Dump the fuckers; we've been paying their way for far too long.
We can mold for ourselves a society in which no one ever has to worry about whether he or she will be turned away from the hospital, because her or his insurance company will not pay the bill. A society in which no one will be condemned to a life of wretched poverty by virtue of not having been born into an affluent family. A society in which fewer infants die than do now. A society in which whether one has access to public higher education depends on one's intellectual wherewithal rather than one how much money one's parents have. Etc.
The solution is straightforward: Identify those areas afflicted with the social disease that is right-wingism and perform the necessary surgical excision. The alternative is exactly what the right-wingers want: A twenty-first century version of feudalism.
Serf or citizen? The choice is up to each of us.
There isn't really any genuine doubt about the essence of right-wing domestic economic policy: The right-wingers want to impoverish as many people as possible and concentrate as much wealth as possible into as few hands as possible. That isn't news: It's been the essence of right-wing economic policy for as long as right-wing economic policy has existed.
(There will be, unless they have (quite rightly) become ashamed to venture it in public, the usual blather from the right-wingers; accord it the respect it deserves.)
The time has come -- indeed, it came quite a while ago -- for those of us who are not deluded by right-wing lies to step up and put an end to it. And that means ridding ourselves of those parts of our Republic which are evidently mired irremediably in right-wing extremisim.
Alabama, Mississippi, we've had it. We're giving you to Mexico. Or anyone else that will have you. Or no one at all.
Try going it on your own. You have been leeching the progressive (which is, of course, to say good) States for decades. Try getting along without the neverending feedtube you've been getting from the States that actually live in the twenty-first century rather than desperately trying to hang on to the eighteenth.
Oh, by the way, if you try to do something that we think threatens our interests, we will stop you. Go ahead, try to lease oil-drilling rights to a company that does not meet our (progressive; i.e., good) environmental standards. We will destroy it.
And the Dakotas? Fuck off. It was a mistake to make you States at all, let alone separate States. Try joining Canada. If that works well for you, dandy. If it doesn't, and it probably won't, don't come crying to us. Unless, of course, you're willing to sell your agricultural products to us at whatever price we deem fit. Oh, that price doesn't suit you? Fuck off again. (And if you try to sell your products in a way that hampers our national interests, you won't have any products to sell. Oops! How the hell did that happen?)
And Alaska? You're ours. We bought you from the Russians. And we honestly don't give a shit what you like or don't like.
You who are members of native peoples: Of course we will cater to your interests; indeed, we will bend over backward to accommodate your interests, just as we progressive (i.e., good) States have always done.
But the rest of you? Fuck off.
Yeah, you have the oil pipeline. But guess what: Tomorrow, you won't have it any more. We have decided that it is ours, we're taking it, and there is not a goddamned thing that you can do about it. Unless you feel like putting up a bunch of chronically drunk Alaska militiamen against the US military. Good luck with that.
And then there's South California. (Yes, that's right; North California and South California should have been separate States from the beginning, and they should be separated now.) Go ahead; block us. How will you feel when none of North California's water is coming your way? Oops! Canals and pumping stations essential to South California's stealing North California's water are no longer functioning. Gee? How could that have happened?
The bottom line is simple: The progressive -- good -- States (and, at least in the case of California, a portion of a State) can fend for themselves quite successfully in the global economic environment. The right-wing States haven't got a prayer. For all their ideological mouthings, the inescapable truth of the matter is that without the advanced States, the right-wing States have nothing in store for them except third-world status.
So let's just do the right thing: Dump the fuckers; we've been paying their way for far too long.
We can mold for ourselves a society in which no one ever has to worry about whether he or she will be turned away from the hospital, because her or his insurance company will not pay the bill. A society in which no one will be condemned to a life of wretched poverty by virtue of not having been born into an affluent family. A society in which fewer infants die than do now. A society in which whether one has access to public higher education depends on one's intellectual wherewithal rather than one how much money one's parents have. Etc.
The solution is straightforward: Identify those areas afflicted with the social disease that is right-wingism and perform the necessary surgical excision. The alternative is exactly what the right-wingers want: A twenty-first century version of feudalism.
Serf or citizen? The choice is up to each of us.
