This is a response that I wrote to SlackerInc's diary (and to some of his replies there as well),
Barrack Obama delivered a sweet slapdown!
In one of his replies to some of my comments about simply trying to tell the truth to the American public, he wrote:
As I say, just between us I don't necessarily disagree with you on the facts--I mean how can I when I have read Zinn's People's History of the U.S. and find it highly credible...
"Just between us", eh? Between us SMART people, right?
I have had enough of THAT shit right here on dKos to last a lifetime. He thinks Obama delivered a "smackdown"? I got yer smackown, right HERE!!! It ain't sweet, but it's real.
Read on.
You are an elitist, sir.
And defeated before you even deign to fight.
You say:
But the vast majority of the American people just won't abide this kind of talk, and all the proof in the world won't get through to them. They'll tune you out and go running to Sean Hannity, who will make them feel good about America again and tell them "it's okay, it's just those horrible America-hating liberals that are the problem". You're trying to go head on against a fundamental current of social psychology here, and it will never resonate beyond <10% of the population.
Plain talk HAS NOT BEEN TRIED.
Except by Howard Dean, and the corporate owned media offed him just as soon as they could do so. You think that you are "better" than the people of this country because you have read Zinn and enough Chomsky (and/or his critics) to take the position that the word (or ideas) of "Chomsky" is an automatic 20 yard penalty in the electoral game?
I am so sick of you elitist liberals that I could puke. "The vast majority", eh? How the fuck would you know? You swallow the NY Times line...hook, stinker, and all (The same NY Times that employs spooks like Judith Miller to feed you this bullshit)...and then you sit there in your upper-middle class safety and smirk down upon the poor unwashed plebes. Well let me tell you something from plebe land, Bunky. Most Americans are so busy trying to survive in this country (and have been so badly educated by a corporate-dominated system that does not WANT them to be able to think critically) that they are simply too damned tired to resist the blandishments of the mass media. But that selfsame media WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO RESIST COVERING SOMEONE WHO STOOD UP ON HIS OR HER HIND FEET AND TOLD THE TRUTH.
I am telling you...the first major, national politician who absolutely defies the self-imposed limits of politic decency and clearly, publicly tells George Bush to go fuck himself (using EXACTLY that kind of language) will attract so much attention that the neo-con game will be over AT THAT INSTANT.
One American George Galloway is all we need.
If Howard Dean was at fault, it is because he did not go far ENOUGH. HE bought into the game, too.
You call me a pessimist and use words like anti-American and intellectual. YOU, sir, are anti-American.
Anti-the American PEOPLE.
YOU are a pessimist and an ivory tower intellectual.
And whether it is "the people" of this nation who awaken in time or "the people" of the world, one thing is for damned sure.
SOMETHING is going to change and change RADICALLY over the next several years.
We are headed for an economic collapse that will raze the very foundations of your middle class and above life if we do not defeat the fools who are now in power, and your elitist underestimation of the native intelligence of what I am sure in your own mind you refer to in some way as "the lower classes"...your mind and that of the ruling classes all over this country, almost none of whom have the courage to simply go out into the countryside and the urban jungle and TALK TO SOMEBODY instead of getting their news thirdhand from some corporate controlled media outlet...is the major obstacle to a national awakening from this nightmare that we are now living.
Well, Alan...your own nightmare is just beginning if you do not wake up, and do so right now. I tell you this from the bottom of my heart, from the multi-ethnic streets of the outer boroughs of New York City where I live and the white working class suburbs and countryside from which I come.
Your own nightmare is all set up and ready to rumble. One or two or maybe three more disasters...manmade OR "natural"...and this economic house of cards that these incompetent, selfish motherfuckers have set up is going to fold. Big time. And when it does, the crash of 1929 is going to look like a game of tiddliwinks in comparison.
And this will be the appropriate epitaph for the United States post W. W. II, post JFK's assassination...the same one that eventually applies to EVERY attempt to power the world into submission.
"Here lived stupid vulgar sons of bitches. Who thought they could hire DEATH as a company cop... empty newspapers in the wind, frayed sounds of a distant city..." ( Willam S. Burroughs, The Last Broadcast)
Wake the fuck UP!!!
The fire next time is about to be THIS time.
Charles