<br>Gotham Notes...

Thursday, April 24, 2008

The Great GOP War Comes Home

Your Bush administration governmental principles at work:

Chicago Police: 36 Shot, 2 Stabbed, 9 Dead Over Weekend

Reportedly, 13 of the victims were school students. No Child Left Behind, my ass. The GOP attempt to create a nobles/serfs caste construct in our nation's schools systems has had exactly the impact you could probably imagine—unless, of course, you happen to be a neo-con theorist.

This re-emergence of urban violence, gang activity and random street violence (and we can set our watches for the coming onslaught of fear-mongering and "law and order" stories) sits right there, nestled comfortably with the housing and credit meltdowns, the Great GOP War and a ransacked Fort Knox as legacies of years of GOP rule.

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley speaks for all U.S. mayors when he says:
"Know where your children are. It's going to be a long summer..."

Where do we start with this?

Do we start with an educational system that has squeezed learning everything positive for the human spirit out of our school systems—replacing it with a rigid metric program that major segments of the student population are guaranteed to fail, thereby raising the rates of drop-outs, hopelessness and poverty—and giving students only those lessons they need to become functional drones as adults?
Do we start with the criminal manipulations of the economy that give full license to those fully politically connected to loot city, state and federal coffers with abandon, along with the ability to turn and blame those who have been squeezed out of the system when shortfalls are eventually discovered?
Do we start with a ginned-up GOP war in the Mideast, which is highly populated with soldiers who come from depressed areas—to the point where the military becomes one of the few remaining career/job options in their communities?
Do we start with those few skeet shooters and couple dozen hunters with megaphones who would happily sacrifice major sections of the country to gang and individual criminal violence on the altar of their myopic misreading of the Second Amendment (while blithely ignoring the full and complete dismantling of all the other Amendments)?
Do we start with the utter gutting of the Justice Department and all other federal agencies whose sole mission is to protect the health, safety and betterment of the American people? There simply stands one crime left on the books worthy of having the full apparatus of our law enforcement and justice system thrown at it, and one crime only: Breathing While Democrat. Otherwise, sorry, they're not interested.
Do we start with a governmental population control apparatus which is now perilously close to being out of control, which takes an ostensibly anti-terrorist law, the "Patriot" Act, never uses it for the purposes for which it was intended, but uses it fully to turn state and local police forces into heavily armed, paramilitary forces, now buttressed with the legal underpinnings for complete corruption of their core mission, which is the safety and well being of their communities.
Do we start with your average urban youth, whose family has been squeezed out of a decent life by this economy; who's been pushed out the school door because he/she couldn't hit a certain number on a test in a short time frame; who looks at enlisting as perhaps his/her only job option even though he/she knows that means a strong probability of coming home in a box or as a basket case; who sees his/her neighborhood awash in gunfire thanks to the good folks at the NRA, who give media cover to the greatest gun-running operations in the world's history; who sees the FBI and Justice Dept. refuse to return phone calls for help since those citizens feel threatened by are not high-placed Democrats; and who now see gang membership as being a tad more attractive an option when living under a GOP administration?
This is why this election is so critical to the future of this country. And perhaps the world. The survival of this country depends on reversing each and every aspect of GOP rule, bringing each and every U.S. citizen back into the realm of hope and possibility. Back into a world where there are options other than gangs for identity, safety and prosperity.

The United States of America can simply no longer afford a Republican in any office or agency, be it federal, state or local. They badgered the American people for forty years to give them the levers of power, saying that they had the answers to America's woes, and could deliver true Utopia to all—if only their principles and theories were given free rein.

Well, the American people decided to give them a try. They gave them the power.

It may take another forty years to fully clean up all the damage. Nice party; now who's gonna clean up this mess?

Maybe another forty years to reverse all the destructive self-serving policies, dig out all the deeply entrenched apparatchiks, frog-walk all the corrupted, convict all the malfeasance, build new jails for the evildoers, negotiate with the World Court to hand over all the war criminals and track down every obscure corner of government that needs to be fully re-regulated to protect America from the greed and hubris of personal embellishment and aggrandizement every human being is tempted by.

Hopefully, with the coming Democratic electoral tsunami in November, which should leave no Republican standing, the long, painful American healing process can begin.

posted by Gotham 12:04 PM

1 comments

1 Comments:

Oh, I think the neocons could imagine what's happened. For them it's a feature, not a flaw.

Same thing with the utopian promise -- it was never for everyone. The Republicans were voted in on the implicit promise that they'd keep certain people down. That's what they've done.

Kyria

By Anonymous, at May 08, 2008 9:25 PM