by Dreamtwister » Sun 22 Oct 2006, 12:30:57
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'A')re these "sides" that Limbaugh and Olbermann represent real or imagined?
I think you need to first draw a distinction between "idealogical" differences, and "functional" differences. Functionally, both parties are identical. They are both for sale to the highest bidder. For the Republicans, it's the corporations and the wealthy. For the Democrats, it's the special interest groups and the wealthy. Neither party actually works for the benefit of the country, though that's what they both sell.
Idealogically, however, the differences are real, but they are also severely inflated. Those differences have always been present, but they never used to be tools of hatred. As hard as it might be to remember, Republicans and Democrats used to be able to work alongside eachother, despite their idealogical differences.
But now that the "uniter" is on the job, every little difference of opinion has become a rallying flag around which the idealogues muster their ire and whip their followers into a partisan froth. As the anger and resentment increases, moderate voices in both camps get disgusted and turn away, leaving an increasngly extremist party behind. The point is well illustrated in this statement:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he right moved so far right they left me left.
Our idealogical differences have been used as wedges to seperate the common people from eachother. This alone is
everyone's greatest threat to freedom. A divided population is easier to control than a united one, and the people are certainly divided.
In closing, I'll leave you with the words of Willie Lynch:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Willie Lynch in 1712', 'G')entlemen, I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the oldest methods of control of sl aves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program were implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish. I saw enough to know that your problem is not unique. While Rome used cord s of woods as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers you are here using the tree and the rope on occasion.
I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are not only losing a valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know what your problems are: I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving t hem. In my bag here, I have a fool proof method for controlling your Black slaves. I guarantee everyone of you that if installed correctly it will control the slaves for at least 300 hundred years. My method is simple. Any member of your family or your oversee r can use it.
I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves: and I take these differences and make them bigger. I use fear, distrust, and envy for control purposes. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple little list of differences, and think about them. On top of my list is "Age", but it is there only because it starts with an "A": the second is "Color" or shade, there is intelligence, size, sex, size of plantations, status on plantation, attitude of owners, whether the slave live in the valley, on hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, coarse hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences. I shall give you an ou tline of action-but before that I shall assure you that distrust is stronger than trust and envy is stronger than adulation, respect, or admiration.
The Black slave after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self re-fueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands. Don't forget you must pitch the old Black male vs. the young Black male, and the young Black male against the old Black male. You must use the dark skin slaves vs. the light skin slaves and the light skin slaves vs. the dark skin slaves. You must use the female vs. the male, and the male vs. the female. You must also have your white servants and overseers distrust all Blacks, but it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us. They must love, respect and trust only us. Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control. Use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity. If used intensely for one year, the slaves themselves will remain perpetually distrustful. Thank you, gentlemen.
