Since most people of color are too P.C. (read: scared) to say it, I will go ahead and get this off my chest; there are some pissed off white folks in America right now. Now whether that makes me laugh or once again consider burning a few flags just for fun, I’m not sure yet, but I’m glad as hell Obama won and it has everything to do with what I believe the second term of his presidency will bring.
I expect he’s not going to play as nice with the Republicans and Dixiecrats who stood in the way of progress for the past 4 years. Now that it’s been made VERY clear that he didn’t get into office on some Affirmative Action fluke, it might not be so seemly to literally hold the country, and its citizens, hostage on the basis of ideology. And nothing made me skip with more glee then walking into my office and looking into the face of every. single. Republican with a smug satisfaction.
Today I walked the walk of the uppity negro. The only thing that kept me from giving middle fingers was the supreme urge to keep my job. For now, we have a president who views our macrocosm as a pragmatic which I much prefer over some spoon fed jerk off who thinks you can run a country like a mergers and acquisitions firm and treats citizens like mere opportunity costs to his “real” constituency; corporate America. And coming from someone who loves her some corporate, I definitely recognize how the culture of short term gains and brutal greed has permanently altered the American philosophical, economical, and spiritual landscape.
If Fundies were half as concerned about greed as they are about sodomy in my bedroom, I might take them seriously. And like these Deep South apologists who try to pretend “state’s rights” doesn’t mean “putting niggers/fags/women in their place” plenty of Right Wing pundits have reasons for why the GOP lost the race, but my favorite HAS to be Billo’s. I mean, the man literally bleeds elegance.
I’m in ur country, messin’ up ur traditionz.
Posts like this are why I love you!
Damn it someone has to! It’s getting rather lonely in this padded cell and for some reason they keep playing Huey Newton clips on the tele. LOL!
Err… Twenty years ago, Bill Clinton was elected. Then again, as Colbert said, “math has a liberal bias.” Seriously, twenty years ago, the voters elected a man president who was instrumental to introducing the mere idea of GBLT people serving in the military (kids these days, in their post-DADT world don’t fully realise that prior DADT, it was not *mandatory* that recruiters asked people if they were gay), who, as governer of Arkansas eliminated sales tax on medications, and as president widened social safety nets, especially for people with children. And the voters re-elected him, too.
But hey, twenty years ago, nobody would have elected a president who offered “stuff”
…make that “it was mandatory”. I’ll blame the tablet, for now.
I think the interesting thing about these kinds of mindsets is the fact that there’s an idealization of an “era” that never really existed. Sure, when you look on T.V., the Age of Conservatism so loved by many of these talking heads, was one of morals and tradition, grounded in good old fashioned Protestant work ethic and missionary style sex.
But these visions are delusions and fantasy and I’m wondering if it’s no so much returning to a simpler time for “principles” but if it’s more about returning to a time when these people that make them SO uncomfortable knew their place in society as second class citizens.
For some strange reason, wanting equality and a level chance at the “American Dream” somehow snatches it out of the clutching hands of the people who, they feel, actually deserve it; Heterosexual, Cisgendered, White, Men regardless of merit.
Because I’m pretty sure Billo thinks white women need to sit the fuck down somewhere.
Exactly! The “golden bootstrap era” never really existed, at least not in the lifetimes of anyone living –government welfare was in place long before FDR’s New Deal. What existed prior is, as you said, a point in time when institutionally disenfranchised people had a “place” and a necessary majority were willing to keep within it.
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