Why She's Dangerous

The big secret has always been that what we have always referred to as racism is actually greedy bastards fighting over control of all the money. Neshoba County, Mississippi, is the place where Ronald Reagan launched his presidential campaign. This tiny little rural area surrounding the town of Philadelphia had less than 30,000 residents in 2000. The aforenamed county seat had only 7000. This obscure little county named for the Choctaw Indian word for wolf has been featured in three movies: Attack on Terror in1974, Mississippi Burning in1988, and Murder in Mississippi in 1990. The most famous civil rights slaying of The Sixties occurred here in 1964. It was then, and it still is now, all about the money. I know because I was there, or at least only about a hundred miles from this blight on America's reputation.

The South has never gotten over its own selfish insanity. The public school systems may have been forcibly integrated, but the funding has never been really there ever since. The rise of what we now call Evangelical Christians to political power can be traced back to this uniquely American madness. The power-mad Christians have allied themselves with Wall Street, while denying for decades that money really had anything to do with their faith-based politics. Why do you think this marriage made in hell has lasted so long?

I want you to open your mind and change gears for a moment. If you research who I am, you will quickly discover that I had planned to develop an academic sort of career as a social scientist, but my life and career got derailed by a number of converging factors that placed me firmly in the financial industry instead. Soon after I retired at the end of 2001, I released my psychosocial treatise entitled The Last Horizon: Feminine Sexuality & The Class System. This book is not what you might expect from the title. The subject matter is a dissection of the DNA of a very powerful force in modern American culture, the herd instinct. I wrote the book as an introduction to a somewhat complex theory of personality that I developed back in the late '60's. I named this theory The Class System because no other name has ever been more accurate. The Class System is a breakdown of our behavior patterns that begin developing as our socialization begins when we first enter school. It is based loosely on what we commonly refer to as social class, but the complexity derives from the myriad personality traits we each develop as the result of this social interaction. If the book has a major flaw, it is certainly that it is not a heavy, serious, scientific treatise on the subject. It is more akin to light entertainment with a socially educational undertone.

We have all experienced elections in high school that seemed to have been based solely on how popular and attractive the candidates were, whether they were running for Homecoming Queen or Student Body President. That's never been a problem with the former, but I think we all know that the latter might remind us all too well how George Bush got to be President twice.

There are a lot of Americans out there in crazyland who are scared senseless that the white race is losing its stranglehold on the American dollar. You can laugh it off and try to kid yourself that these are only a small bunch of Southern, KKK sympathizers who can easily be voted off any stage they attempt to control, and if race, not money, was the actual culprit, you would have nothing to fear. Those people have finally been minimalized into a small minority. However, there is a far greater horde that can easily be swayed to support the racist crazies based solely on monetary issues. This is the big secret that Reagan knew. He understood exactly how to harness this wretched power: send out secret messages to the angriest Americans who felt disenfranchised from their God-given right to dominate those less fortunate than themselves. It's not that they hate black people as much as it is they are afraid of losing control of the money.

Let's flash forward to 2009. I screamed at my television set a lot in 2008. I mean a lot. The reason basically boiled down to CNN. I am not one of those people Leno would make famous on Jaywalking. I have been paying attention for a long time. Walter Cronkite would roll over in his grave like Beethoven if he could see what television news has become. Of course Rupert Murdoch is one of the most evil men to ever walk the earth. He created an empire of lies and trash talking disguised as news. After the really big corporation got rid of Ted Turner, they turned CNN toward the direction of Fox News. Of course CNN is not as right wing oriented as Fox, but their modus operandi is just as sleazy. They really don't give a rat's derriere about anything except making as much money as possible. There is not a single commentator or journalist on CNN today that deserves to even bring coffee to Sam Donaldson! There is no research being done behind the scenes. These news anchors care as much about hair and makeup as the subject of this rant. They will say absolutely anything to continue receiving their million-dollar salaries. They will cheerfully repeat any lie, as long as they can defend their actions by saying they didn't write the story; they just repeated whatever was reported elsewhere. Do you see the vicious circle being perpetrated here, folks?

The media wants this abomination in lipstick in the news. They want her to say whatever she wants so they can repeat it over and over for a panting audience. Some of that audience may be continually asking that she shut up while others are cheering her on as if they were at some meaningless sporting event. Cable news doesn't care. As long as it brings them viewers, they don't care if she gets in The White House and pushes that red button, while screaming at the top of her lungs, God made me do it!

The reason we should care about all this is simply that the big secret word is money. Most of America has suddenly waked up to the monetary disaster that has been building ever so slowly since 1970. If you listen to the news, the overpaid millionaires will be happy to explain to you how McCain lost the election because the economy suddenly tanked at a bad time for the Republicans. Of course it did, but it also has been a very long time coming. Any television economist who says he was taken by surpise is lying his greedy head off. The stinking neocons finally went too far and it caught up with them. Some people have even speculated that the witch was selected as a patsy, a fall-twit, a candidate to lose when the Republican power brokers were quite sure in advance that they didn't have much of a chance. Others think the right-wing choices for 2008 were fatally flawed, so why not set up the next candidate for 2012? Either of these or neither, or some of both, may be the truth. The problem is that John McCain unleashed The Wicked Witch of the West, and I don't think America should ever forgive him for that.

The scary part is that I live in a county in which more than 75% voted for those two disasters last November, and the same is true of the county next door. I have always told my wife that I love where we live. The only downside is that we are surrounded by Republicans. These two counties are mostly populated by two kinds of people, millionaires and Christians. The millionaires can never have enough money and the Christians have to have somebody else to blame for their problems. Obama was touted as having the best political organization in American history. The campaign broke all records for time and money spent, and yet there was no twenty-point margin to reflect the enormous expenditures. There are still a lot of crazy, greedy voters in America. They are frightened out of their minds that Caucasians may one day lose their majority, or that more tax dollars may be spent on domestic, humanitarian programs than on wars, incarcerations, and executions. They will do or say absolutely anything to expose President Obama as an economic charlatan, not because he is African American, but because he is a Democrat, and they are never content with some of the money. They want all of it. Heil Sarah!

See Also: The Invisible Baby