(I've been talking about "serfs on the corporate plantations" for years and call what Michael is talking about "corporate imperialism" because every time I call it "fascism" those listening who do not agree go into attack mode and hear nothing further. "Slavocracy" is a great name for what is going on here. Enjoy. GS)

AMERICA - YOU ARE TO BLAME
- a Happy HOLIDAY Rant -

I Am Sick And Tired of This and Won't Be Silent Any Longer
By Michael O'McCarthy © 12-23-05

Stop blaming Bush, Cheney, Rummy and the Neo-conservatives and Con-Evangelical gangs for the nightmare of economic and political tyranny befalling our nation! YOU, the American citizenry are responsible for this nightmare!

YOU blame the Bushes, Clintons, Republicans, Democrats, the Senate, the House, and The Media. ENRON, Global Crossing, Anderson, Ahold, Halliburton, affirmative action, equal rights, the Palestinians, Al Qaeda. And Syria, North Korea , Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The list of Evil Doers blamed is endless in this culture.

YOU are responsible for every death of every American in the middle east and every citizen of those countries killed in these illegal wars.

This is OUR culture. OUR Republic. OUR Democracy and the Evil Doings of those persons and entities are but symptoms of a government now being run by and for the benefit of the corporate rich and their ideological Brownshirt thugs of the Neo-Christian White Right.

YOU are at fault for this nightmare of tax gouging, corporate fraud and deceit and a murderous, exploitive and illegal foreign policy that maintains a superficial form of democracy at home based upon the repression of democratic movements and slave like labor conditions abroad.

YOU are responsible for the continuing tide of racism and ageist discrimination, sexist harassment, exploitation of women, union busting and discrimination against working people and the non-ending persecution of gay and lesbian people that takes place within this country on a day to day basis.

YOU hide behind your day-to-day complacency and self indulgence. YOUR denial of this reality is the way for YOU to enjoy this token democracy and to continue to enjoy the economic prosperity that is built on the unfair exploitation of other people's natural resources and labor.

When people in those countries abroad challenge the façade of American humanitarianism you are shocked and outraged. Then YOU complain and moan about their lack of appreciation of our charity. But YOU DO NOTHING to find out the truth or to correct what this corporate owned government is doing.

That's right YOU: succumbing to deep mental sloth, YOU blindly accept the corporate owned spew that is called news. While lie after lie is revealed by in-depth analysis and revelation only finger tips away, you abdicate your civic responsibility and allow the this illegal administration to rob both you and your neighbors of a decent way of life and the rights guaranteed under our Constitution.

YOU don't get out the vote in your local, state or federal elections.

YOU don't organize in your own neighborhoods for more safety or better living conditions and better public education.

YOU don't organize at your work place against those who harass and exploit you. YOU don't picket or protest.

It does not require a degree in economics. But evidently it does require a falling stock market, higher and higher unemployment, less job benefits, tighter lending, more layoffs and firings, the disappearance of a budget surplus and the attempt by a greed driven, power lusting, super rich politician in the White House to get the message into the THICK, BRAINWASHED heads of the American public: Those who own and/or represent Corporate American are bad for you.

They are worse than the West Nile Virus or the Avian Flu. They have no interest in your welfare or the welfare of your children, your aging parents or your hopes and dreams for a decent, safe and secure future. You are labor or war fodder, (I hope you notice that you are being fired ---laid off --- at a higher rate at the same time they are waging a war to get more oil to fuel the Corporate Greed Machine!)

The Republican Party is just what it is: A class of the white rich, greedy males and their co-dependent women. A political organization that is class racist and sexist: It supports racists like Trent Lott and tolerates and uses the Colin Powells and Condoleezza Rices as house and field servants but discriminates against the social and economic rights of the average woman and everyday person of color.

The Democratic Party is a party of cowards. Pretending to be the party of opposition it bows to every warmongering campaign waged by the Republicans. It acts as apologists when the Republicans wage racist and class discrimination against middle class and working people. It does so because it has become no more than the brother party to the Corporate Greed Machine and you know this and still you pretend.

You are a consumer of overpriced, poorly constructed junk made by slaves in nations that oppress, suppress and exploit their poor. That produces a mass food supply that makes you obese and quicker to die.

When the large corporations find it tough getting more and more profits, the executives steal what profits they have accumulated and declare bankruptcy and petition the government (that is US by the way,) to bail them out.

At the VERY SAME TIME, they hire lobbyists and politicians to restrict your VERY SAME RIGHT to fail in the small business and personal arena ... you know, give it a shot at having your own small business, or try to get ahead or live a little better with credit they mass market to you, while trying to make a living on reduced wages ... by passing laws denying you the same bankruptcy laws they are using to pay off the corporate executives.

They continue to maintain "right to work" laws in every state they manage while busting every union contract they can. These are YOUR leaders.

And the sick, pathetic fact is; YOU KEEP VOTING THEM IN ...OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

YOU don't read or delve into the truth of current events, either at home or throughout the world.

YOU refuse to investigate this government's role in corporate, international exploitation and repression of other nations.

YOU continue to allow the thieves in political and corporate offices to exploit and misuse US at home and those abroad by extolling a faux brand of patriotism and Christianity.

YOU are a participant in every death in every city and the death of every member of the Armed Forces that is killed in this 'the War on Terror!'

That terrorism is not rooted solely in the barbaric fanaticism of political and religious zealots.
It is mutually based in a US foreign policy which colluded with dictators like the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, Batista, Somoza, Sukharno, Marcos, The South African white rulers, The House of Saudi and the most recently featured 2 most notorious US partners, Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein!

This foreign policy colluded in the denial of basic human rights to their citizens, the perpetuation of genocide. All done in service to the CIA as the subsidized contractor of US corporations. And every time you shop in one of those Super Marts YOU reap the benefits of that policy.

YOU will be responsible for every death that occurs if YOU allow Bush to continue his worldwide war against nations whose capacity for military lunacy was built by his father and the current Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld and VP Cheney.

YOU are stupid and lazy. YOU are moral cowards. YOU the American citizenry are reaping exactly what YOUR government has sown.

If it were just YOU who suffered the consequences that would be nothing more than the deserved results of your selfishness and masochism. But the true innocent victims of YOUR negligence are those who are too young to defend themselves and the impoverished and weakly defended of the world, and the immature of our nation who are so easily led to become cannon fodder in these wars.

YOUR next victims are those of us who struggle on a regular basis to make this system work, but who then face more of YOUR endless blame and harassment because, as activists, we are labeled Liberals, or Communists, or Militants, or Atheists, or other mindless, bigoted, ignorance engendered names.

Remember OUR Revolution against the tyrants of England? OUR Civil War against the tyrants of Southern Slavocracy?  

The struggle against for Civil Rights against Jim Crow and US apartheid which had denied democracy to people of color in 1965? The struggle to get women the vote which had been denied to one half of our population until 1922?

The struggle to end the Viet Nam war? It's in the history books.

Those struggles against those systems of oppression and terrorism were led by women and men like US against the complicity and social terrorism of people like YOU!

If you want the nightmare to end, then it is time that YOU get out of your homes and offices and organize for change. It's the American Way.

Get rid of the crooks YOU have elected. Over and Over again. The same liars, cheats and thieves dressed mostly in new white faces. The Bushes, Clintons, Cheneys. These are of the same ill cloth that was cut for the traitors who created the Confederate State of America. The same clothes which garbed the murderers of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. They are all government white male managers of white CORPORATE OWNED AMERICA which have no sense of justice or humanity. They are run solely so to rape more and more profit from YOU and the world.

And now YOU allow THEIR secret police to take away OUR Freedom of Speech and the Right to Assemble and the right to be free in our homes under the guise of Homeland Security. When YOU hear the ringing of YOUR doorbell and YOU think it is a mistake, that they have come for the person next door, and YOU open to point out your innocence, we will hear YOUR screams only, because before that, YOUR voice will have been silenced.

The new name for this government ought to be another CSA: Corporate States of America. And YOU keep it running.
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To understand the Civil War you must understand the economic system of Slavocracy:

SLAVOCRACY, (a name coined for the bizarre pretense of that culture in seeing itself as a post-Grecco descendant,) was an agrarian based economic and social cast system which used slavery as it's prime means of production and was antithetical to northern industrial development of the US. That being a social and economic system based on labor unions and guilds and crafts and the development of a middle class specific to the creation of an 'advanced,' scientific culture. Those that owned the northern system had to destroy the Southern system in order that the US capitalist system would succeed, that is, advance.

You may argue, as did the theorists of the South, that `free society' of the Industrialized society was barbarous and in the end far more cruel to humans than slavery, but then, slavery offered no chance at freedom, either to the slave or the keeper, that is the white yeomanry; you know, their progeny being those people you despise who drive around in pickups and watch wrasslin' and who continue to fly the Confederate flag and pray that they will have those "States Rights" once again.

The truly asinine fact being, that those white yeomanry were little better than chattel to the Slavocrats who viewed themselves as ascendant royalty much more akin to the royalty of England, than kin to the overseer class they used to keep Africans in place and as a means of production. The yeomanry had about as much a chance as becoming plantation owners and nobility as did their ancestors in England becoming Royals.

And while keeping the state of the union in tact was essential to both the security of the US, (preventing another Imperialist war with England --- the Counter Revolution to our Revolutionary War against then, King George), and in building the vast fortunes of the industrial capitalists and the basis of our current middle class, there was also a very strong "humanitarian" impetus to free any human held in bondage according to our skewed but nonetheless noble principle that All 'Men' Are Created Equal.

Had not Slavocracy been overthrown, my defenders of States Rights, you would be drinking commercially canned mint Juleps from a convenience store where you work part time in your shanty and pissing the residue in an outhouse somewhere down near the Swanee River.