This is horrible:
NYC cabdriver knifed for his religion
(marabout40's diary)
We know where this may go in terms of further attacks on our fellow citizens, our neighbors and friends.
Why has this happened? We know. All this insane, ignorant violence the result of rhetoric uttered to score for some political points, to win elections in November. This violence was designed to guarantee the election of puppets for the uber-rich, of a party with no ideas, and accomplished through the perfectly cynical manipulation of the feelings of the American public.
What was used? A completely invented story, a tissue of innuendos and misrepresented facts and outright lies. "Ground Zero Mosque" It's neither at Ground Zero or a mosque! The very name is a lying mockery - and its obvious in its contempt for the American Public.
This is worse than "Wag the Dog"! It's about the lives of our fellow citizens.
But it's nothing compared to next month:
The long hot summer becomes an incendiary fall.
We've all watched it unfold.
June: Shirley Sherrod and "uppity" blacks stealing from you.
July: Scary aliens creeping across the border and stealing your stuff and your job.
August: Muslims insult the blood of dead Americans, mocking them in a victory dance, stealing their very graves from you!
The narrative progression is inevitable. There is a conclusion to all this preliminary, frenzied, impassioned buildup:
September and October:
Obama is a Black, illegal immigrant, Muslim!
We have the proof! (It doesn't matter that it's a total fraud - we'll roll it out like the last three fake horror stories leaked through Palin tweets and Fox, flogged by Beck and Rush.)
The message?
He has stolen the country for you - but we can TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!
All before the one election that will control Obama's Presidency. With a Republican Senate, they can stop legislation and pontificate against him.
With control of the House, they can begin impeachment hearings.
Obama won't win re-election.
The resurgent Democratic party, that seemed unstoppable in its agenda, with a Democratic charismatic President, and a Democratically-controlled Congress, will be demolished. Toast. A history only fit for ridicule.
Even if they only get four years, the GOP will reinstitute the Bush Tax cuts - and more. They will steal what little wealth any of the bottom 90% have. After all, the top 1% got their houses and pensions last go-round, appropriating the single largest source of wealth in the nation. They legally heisted amount that, spread out over all those middle-class Americans, made those schmucks the most prosperous bourgeoisie in the history of the world - and, previously, the society that had been before Reagan fixed it the most fiscally egalitarian.
But those middle-class guys still have health insurance, for the most part. They still have middle-class jobs, and houses - for the most part. There is still a lot of wealth out there.
Then, also, there are still small businesses small businesses. Small businesses are the single largest producers of new jobs in the country. If you can break their backs, you can break the independent ones, the ones you can't fire from their jobs, the ones whose owners' incomes are among the highest as a group. They aren't in the category of the truly super-rich, the wealthiest 1%, that they still hold a huge lump of value.
So the GOP will use the foreseeable future to make this country an even bigger oligopoly. It will will more militarized, more polluting, more abusive of foreign people, less free domestically, and ruled by an oligopoly, the top 1% or less. They will have robbed the richest country in the world.
They will use that money to wage war. Against the Arab oil world, the former Russian states, the Central American narco-states (since Mexico will have fallen apart), the Chinese Empire, and somewhere in there, little Europe.
These are the kind of visions that make the Dick Cheneys of this world cream into their pajamas as they lie in the beds of their long-term care facilities.
A world in which the wealth of the entire world, for centuries, is controlled by a few men. They hold in their hands the power of the greatest military the world has ever seen. They wage wars against all the other empires of the world. They win - they control it all.
Of course, in the real world, the environment totally collapses as sea levels rise 2 to 3 feet in the next century.
Well, that's how next month and the rest of your lifetime may go - unless you stop it. (Well, you, me and Jon Stewart).
Tell us what you are going to be actively doing to stop this future? (I'm holding yard parties and precinct volunteering for my Congressman, Rush Holt.) If we all actually DO something, we may stop this.