THE RACE EDITION: ISSUE 39, VOLUME 63
GOLDSTEIN!
by Malik Isasis
“It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. “ – Emmanuel Goldstein
John McCain and his Republican Party are swinging wildly like a drunk who has had sand thrown into his eyes. In an act of unadulterated desperation the McCain campaign is ratcheting up the hate by blowing the dog whistle to which they believe only their supporters can hear—using such code words as communist, socialist, welfare, real America, Chicago-style politics, elitist, terrorist, and Arab. Just so you know, we can hear the whistle. When nothing else works, fear: black and Arab people are hostile, dangerous and belligerent; Mexicans are invading; and the Chinese are trying to kill Americans with their manufacturing. It’s a morphing of non whites into a foreign other who are out to destroy the mythological America where colored folks know their place.
George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, written in 1949 about a futuristic totalitarian regime in 1984, shows the efficiency in which a one party rule government known as Big Brother, controlled the populace through induced fear and torture. In the novel, a character named Emmanuel Goldstein, is known as The Number One Enemy of the People by the ruling Oligarchy party, The Party. The Party took totalitarianism to a whole new level, where people’s thoughts were controlled and monitored 24 hours a day through such Ministries of Love, Truth and Peace. For two minutes starting at 11:00am every day, The Party broadcast Two Minutes Hate, an obligatory propaganda film on Goldstein where citizens stopped what they were doing and yelled at the image of Goldstein for which they were trained to hate.
For eight years, Osama Bin Laden has been America’s Goldstein, whenever the Republicans wanted to get away with stripping a Constitutional right away, rob the coffers of the federal treasury, start a war or win an election, a taped message from Bin Laden would magically appear. Former presidential candidate John Kerry has accredited the October Surprise of a Bin Laden tape for his losing the 2004 presidential race to Bush. The tape was more than likely a fake, I happen to believe Bin Laden is as dead as a door nail, but there's nothing more deliciously wicked than using him as The Number One Enemy to manipulate public policy in favor of neofascism.
Why do you think Bush called off the hunt for Bin Laden years ago?
Two Minutes of Hate No More
The Republicans, their political operatives and their corporate pirates have overplayed their hand by (I think) purposely tanking the stock market to raid the federal coffers in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Bush used the same Two Minutes Hate speech that he used to tap the reptilian brains of Americans to invade Afghanistan and Iraq to ask for $700 billion dollars to no avail. As a result of Bush’s hubris, like with Hurricane Katrina, revealed Bush and the Republicans to most of Americans for who they really were: sociopaths who are obsessed with the maintenance of power and the redistribution of wealth, upwards.
The Republicans tapped the well of fear too often, leaving Americans fear-fatigued and skeptical of the false prophets of Capitalism and their Gears of War and Destruction. The level of fear that was created by Bush and Co. after September 11, 2001 and through two wars and now two occupations was not sustainable, but the Republicans are still in the trenches with forked sticks looking for any signs of fresh fear to be tapped. The perpetual war Bush has established has met a financial reality.
Other people’s lives are the commodity of the Republican Party. They are snake oil salesmen who sale racist sympathy to the xenophobic, a right to life to pro-life activists, and tax breaks for the middle class. And yet the only entity that benefits when Republicans’ are in power are corporations and their unfettered access to the federal government’s resources.
Back to the drunkard analogy in which I began this post. The Republicans' dream of a one Party rule is circling the drain and they are lashing out, as their neofascist America wet dream has been delayed. Look for Republicans to do and say anything as they lose grip with power and reality.
NOW HERE IS YOUR TWO MINUTES HATE
GOLDSTEIN!
by Malik Isasis
“It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. “ – Emmanuel Goldstein
John McCain and his Republican Party are swinging wildly like a drunk who has had sand thrown into his eyes. In an act of unadulterated desperation the McCain campaign is ratcheting up the hate by blowing the dog whistle to which they believe only their supporters can hear—using such code words as communist, socialist, welfare, real America, Chicago-style politics, elitist, terrorist, and Arab. Just so you know, we can hear the whistle. When nothing else works, fear: black and Arab people are hostile, dangerous and belligerent; Mexicans are invading; and the Chinese are trying to kill Americans with their manufacturing. It’s a morphing of non whites into a foreign other who are out to destroy the mythological America where colored folks know their place.
George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, written in 1949 about a futuristic totalitarian regime in 1984, shows the efficiency in which a one party rule government known as Big Brother, controlled the populace through induced fear and torture. In the novel, a character named Emmanuel Goldstein, is known as The Number One Enemy of the People by the ruling Oligarchy party, The Party. The Party took totalitarianism to a whole new level, where people’s thoughts were controlled and monitored 24 hours a day through such Ministries of Love, Truth and Peace. For two minutes starting at 11:00am every day, The Party broadcast Two Minutes Hate, an obligatory propaganda film on Goldstein where citizens stopped what they were doing and yelled at the image of Goldstein for which they were trained to hate.
For eight years, Osama Bin Laden has been America’s Goldstein, whenever the Republicans wanted to get away with stripping a Constitutional right away, rob the coffers of the federal treasury, start a war or win an election, a taped message from Bin Laden would magically appear. Former presidential candidate John Kerry has accredited the October Surprise of a Bin Laden tape for his losing the 2004 presidential race to Bush. The tape was more than likely a fake, I happen to believe Bin Laden is as dead as a door nail, but there's nothing more deliciously wicked than using him as The Number One Enemy to manipulate public policy in favor of neofascism.
Why do you think Bush called off the hunt for Bin Laden years ago?
Two Minutes of Hate No More
The Republicans, their political operatives and their corporate pirates have overplayed their hand by (I think) purposely tanking the stock market to raid the federal coffers in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Bush used the same Two Minutes Hate speech that he used to tap the reptilian brains of Americans to invade Afghanistan and Iraq to ask for $700 billion dollars to no avail. As a result of Bush’s hubris, like with Hurricane Katrina, revealed Bush and the Republicans to most of Americans for who they really were: sociopaths who are obsessed with the maintenance of power and the redistribution of wealth, upwards.
The Republicans tapped the well of fear too often, leaving Americans fear-fatigued and skeptical of the false prophets of Capitalism and their Gears of War and Destruction. The level of fear that was created by Bush and Co. after September 11, 2001 and through two wars and now two occupations was not sustainable, but the Republicans are still in the trenches with forked sticks looking for any signs of fresh fear to be tapped. The perpetual war Bush has established has met a financial reality.
Other people’s lives are the commodity of the Republican Party. They are snake oil salesmen who sale racist sympathy to the xenophobic, a right to life to pro-life activists, and tax breaks for the middle class. And yet the only entity that benefits when Republicans’ are in power are corporations and their unfettered access to the federal government’s resources.
Back to the drunkard analogy in which I began this post. The Republicans' dream of a one Party rule is circling the drain and they are lashing out, as their neofascist America wet dream has been delayed. Look for Republicans to do and say anything as they lose grip with power and reality.
NOW HERE IS YOUR TWO MINUTES HATE
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