False Dichotomies or Why the Tea Party has more in common with the Occupy Wall St. Protestesrs than they do with the Koch Brothers who finance them

If the Tea Party somehow realizes that they have more in common with Occupy Wall St. than they do with their penurious corporate sponsors, we the American populace may still stand a chance.

Forget the labels for a bit and consider the near unanimity of the working and entrepreneurial class's dissatisfaction with the status quo.

We have been divided by multiple false dichotomies of republican vs democrat, liberal vs conservative, individualist vs. statist, ad nauseam.

Dichotomies by definition are limited to two points of view, which ultimately come down to to "that which you espouse" vs. "that which you despise" or at the very least "that with which you disagree". Frankly, it is easy to despise both extremes of these false dichotomies. To the conservative, the object of your derision is the "taker", the otherwise healthy government check sucking individual who shirks individual responsibility and "believes" that he (or she) is somehow owed a livelihood and sustenance at the expense of the rest of us. To the liberal, the "banker" or "inheritance baby" represents the personification of social parasite and "the problem" of our current state of being.

Can't both of these be the problem simultaneously? Haven't we artificially divided the workingman and small businessman along these lines when in fact both of these personifications are equally despicable?

Only when the working/entrepreneurial class realizes that both of the extremes are to be held to account, will we the vast majority of American citizens finally have a framework with which to build an acceptable future.

We have been duped by corporate media to believe in these false dichotomies, when in fact both extremes are responsible for where we find ourselves. We are told to trust in a free market which has devalued our jobs by simultaneously hiring often illegal immigrant labor while exporting our jobs overseas in the name of profit. We are told to despise those who would attempt to dismantle social programs like medicare, social security, and union rights all the while subsidizing those who would take advantage of these programs unnecessarily and selfishly with no regard for the common good. The fact is that both of these extremes, the international corporatist and the benefit sucking slacker are despicable. Although the liberal within me does insist that the slackers don't have much of a lobbying or advertising budget, the fact is the vast majority of us have accepted the false dichotomy that is presented and repeated ad nauseam in the corporate media.

When working people and small businessmen recognize that we have far more issues upon which we agree than disagree and ignore the current mechanisms of division which we are told repeaterdly is our "reality", only then will we take the first step to heal ourselves, our economy and our society.

What is one to do?

The evil is among us.

What is one to do?

When you examine facts what do you find?

I was in kindergarten in November 1963. My teacher at Scruggs school on South Grand was crying and listening to an old style wood cabinet parabolic shaped radio. I’m sorry Janet Schultz. I did not know then what I think I know now. That weekend, I saw, or think I saw, Oswald getting shot by Ruby. It didn’t make much sense to a 5 year old even then.

In 4th grade MLK bit the dust. My dad said he was just a troublemaker.

On the last day of school that year, RFK took one with powder burns behind the ear, although Sirhan never got close enough to leave powder.

At 10 years old, it’s hard not to believe what you’re told.

They lied.

Curses on the Bush family forever, may their bloodline cease. If I was to tell you that a single male lineage would produce a Director of Small Armaments for WWI, a future Senator cited for trading with the enemy in WWII, a President and CIA head who not only was likely involved in the death of one president, but also undermined another through negotiations with hostage takers, and brought death to thousands of just people of Central America, and a 4th, an alcoholic born again buffoon who killed perhaps a million people in Iraq and who in fact presided during the most heinous mass murder event on US soil (I’d claim he was involved in the planning save for his innate incompetence), what would you say? What would you do?

How many good men must die for evil men to succeed?

JFK, MLK, RFK, John Lennon, Jerry Litton, JFK Jr., 9-11; Paul Wellstone.

How much longer will we let the crimes go unpunished?

I am a lonely American. I don’t believe in our exceptionalism or preeminence. I do however believe that we have as a benefit of our birth here, a country which is founded on exceptional and preeminent principles: Freedoms of Speech, Assembly, and the Right to Bear Arms; Separation of Church and State; One man-One vote.

Those principles have been subverted on behalf of money and power. But thank God for Jefferson, as he understood the potential for such hypocrisy. And the hypocrite deserves more vilification than the criminal because he adds deception to the equation.. The criminal hypocrite deserves the greatest rebuke of all.

Maybe I shouldn't have hit that guy in the face at my wife's company Christmas party

Maybe I shouldn't have hit that guy in the face at my wife's company Christmas party...

Tequila and politics, and then he claimed he was an engineer and not only failed to solve the quadratic equation but argued that i was a fucking idiot when i claimed that it was... when a, b, and c are numerical coeffiicients solve for x when ax2+bx+c = 0;

it was on his 2nd or 3rd, youre a fucking idiot, that i popped him in the face, after grabbing his left hand with my right...

chaos ensued...

another step forward for progressive thuggery

Edumacation

His Story Of Miracle

Paul V. Ishmael
Was Grand Dad’s monocle.

He toll us awl that happed
As he herd it on Facts Noose
From Rush, Oh Really, and Vanity.

Indy beginning, the Lard Todd cremated
The Wild and felled it whiff
Awl the farms of Life

The Loss Books toll data story
Of Mows and the Profits and
Of Cheeses.

Years pass and the Purdons
Are been prostituted in Inland.
After preying sum, day get sum ships
and sale away to the New Wild

Day billed camps and for mows par
Thinks is OK accept for the Engines.

Engines on the New Wild
The Purdons thing Engines knead
To leaf the New Wild, witch
Day now call Miracle

Purdons start keeling awl data is red
Red skins; Red Cotes; awl red
Vanished from Miracle and the
Purdons now on the New Wild

Thinks is OK butt den Purdons
Start War whiff day selfs.
Too tips of Purdons
Blues and Gays (no Reds round no moor)

Gays always wants shaves
Its or propriety day say.
Blues done want no shaves
Whiskers knead be freeze day say.

Bearded Blinking Leeds Blues to vicary
His heed goes on moony with
Other steamed Purdons

Blinking changes Miracle to
Untied Skates of Miracle
He dyes but peas and propensity rain

Bout dish thyme, Whores Girly
Say “Go Invest Young Man”
Seams they is steel sum Red yonder.

“Manifold Density” Girly say
“Rid Untied Skates of awl red
And make New Wild save
Fore awl Purdons” and so it was

Now Untied Skates of Miracle stretch
From the Elastic too the Specific
Awl’s well fore a wile den
Inland kneads help in Wild War Won

Miracle helps Inland beet Germy
In Wild War Won, and Peas cums
Fore a bit.

Den Germy gets Nissan too
Boom Miracle’s ships and
Starts Wild War Too

The Untied Skates starts to rolling
Mans of Séance makes Unclear Weapons
And booms Nissan with too oven

Wild War Too cums to a contusion
And Peas rains again fore a bit
Genial Ivan Tower from Wild War Too
Is maid precedent of Untied Skates

Dish is the thyme of the Code War
Whiff Rushers who has Unclear Booms too
Fear has cum to Miracle

Dare is War in Cornea
And den in Vitamin
Butt no Unclear Booms is kneaded

Now Fore along thyme,
The Untied Skates of Miracle kneaded
Ell to ruin awl doze faculties.

The Lard Todd put mows of the Ell
In the Muddle Least
The Scarabs on awl the Ell
In the Muddle Least

Scarabs say Untied Skates dozen
Want toupee fare prize for Ell.
Scarabs subside too takes ostriches.
Scarabs hulled ostriches fore along thyme.

Now Ray gun is ruining fore precedent
Bee hind the schemes, Ray gun’s mens
Maid deal whiff Scarabs to tirade
Harms for the Ostriches

Ray gun den cums precedent
and he say to Rushers
“Mystery Gobble Chef, pare down dish whale!”
Butt Rushers weight sum to dew sew

Ray gun attires and his vise maid precedent
Gorge Butch say “Read ellipse, know New Texas!”
Rushers pares down the burly whale and
Germy is Untied once moor!

The liter of A Rock, Sad Man Who Sane
Subsides to inveigh Coo Weight sense
Coo Weight have moor Ell.

The Untied Skates pervades the Untied Notions
Too farm a demolition and fours A Rock
Too leaf Coo Weight.

Gorge Butch subsides to leaf Sad Man
Empower in A Rock, butt whiff Inland
Cremates a No Tirade pack data
Is proved bye Untied Notions.

Bull Klingon gets erected
Peas rains fore a bit, but Bull’s
Admiration is frocked by a candle
Evolving sacks whiff his in turn.

Gorge Butch had too suns
Another Gorge from Taxless
And Jab from Fluoride

Taxless Gorge ruined for precedent
Verses Allegory. Day tied.
The Soup Ream Cord say
“Taxless Gorge one”

Thinks is OK fore a bit
Den Scarabs clash plains
And keel sum Purdons on
Nina Lemon

Butch and Chains subsides too
Boom A Rack and keel
Sad Man Who Sane

Candelabra Lice say too the
Nina Lemon mission
“Sad Man has Unclear Booms and
He wheel boom the Untied Skates”

Sum say Butch jest kneaded more Ell.
Chains wood knot go to Vitamin
Butt he shore love to boom A Rock.

Sad Man is polled from a whole in A Rock
Butt no Unclear Booms is dare
The Untied Skates now on A Rock’s Ell.

Sum say Miracle knead to boom
A Rant and Cereal too
Doze too the sores of the detergents.

Eye doughnut now fore shore
Watt too dew, butt eye tank
The Lard Todd for Spellchecker.