[Texgreen] FW: [NorTXGreens] The "Democratic" difference?
Gene Akins
geneakins@hotmail.com
Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:47:07 +0000
Well, here I am again, reposting what I believe should have gotten more
attention a couple of years ago! Please bear with me on my new
interjections. If you keep your logic about you there should be no trouble.
However if you find yourself suffering from ""cognitive dissonance" then
please call me promptly at: 972-398-0050 or 972-375-4898 24/7 I will then
make an attempt to de-brief you. But enough of this for now...let us forge
on......
>From: "Gene Akins" <geneakins@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: nortxgreens@yahoogroups.com
>To: daltexgreens@dallasgreens.net, N_TX_Justice_and_Peace@topica.com,
>nortxgreens@yahoogroups.com, TexasGreenParty@yahoogroups.com,
>texgreen@gp-us.org
>Subject: [NorTXGreens] The "Democratic" difference?
>Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:00:52 +0000
>
>
>
>
> Fellow Greens and other fellow travelers: I was just re-reading an
>inspiring book by Rahul Mahajan (as you will recall, we ran him for
>Governor
>of Texas in 2002) titled: "The New Crusade".
>
> If you are like me and you chat with a wide array of people about
>politics (LOL) then you are no doubt aware that many of these folks have
>fallen for the illusion that there are great differences between the
>Republicans and the Democrats. Was it Ralph Nader or Ronnie Dugger that
>originally referred to them as "Republicrats"? Or someone else? Or was it
>Demopublicans? Oh well, no matter.
>
> We are certainly going to need all the information we can muster to be
>able to clearly delineate why we ARE Greens (since the original posting I
>have dropped out of the "electoral Greens, taken up my I.W.W. Wobblie
>membership and helped to form a Branch for North Texas) and not some
>orphaned
>"left-wing" extreme of the Democrats that only wants our "issues"
>recognized
>by our "true brothers and sisters" so that we, for the most part, might
>return to the fold! Hallelujah!
>
> The fable that the Dems just recently started falling away from the
>true
>faith of the party line really needs to be examined in its historical
>context.( You know that they have worked untiringly to help the poor, the
>workers,women's rights, minorities, whatever the hell that means... etc.,
>etc., ad nauseum.) In other words, the "rulers", under cover of the
>"liberal
>Democrats" "gave" up a little to "keep" a LOT!
>
> As I tell some of my new-found friends, its similar to watching
>professional wrestling and wanting to believe that its for real. Kind of
>like "good cop/bad cop" too!
>
> And as for all their "humanitarianism", remember it was a
>Democrat....Harry S. Truman that brought us Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Tell
>that to our Asian brethren while the powers that be are defining
>"terrorism".
>
> Not to mention the War and then the "carpet bombing" of
>Vietnam....wasn't
>that Kennedy and Johnson? Hmm?
>
> The reason I haven't went as far back as Roosevelt, the saint of the
>Dems
>as Lincoln is the saint of the Reps is that I arbitrarily started this post
>with a thought stimulated by the above referred to Rahul. To wit:
>
> "The United States has spearheaded a massive economic assault whose
>effects in toto have been described as re-colonization. Underpinned always
>by the military power of the United States, this assault has included the
>use of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to ensnare
>countries in an inescapable debt trap, thus obliging them to undergo
>"structural adjustment" and a transition to export-led development, which
>involves suppressing domestic demand, mainly by lowering the real wages of
>the workers, and making their economies inputs to the United States and
>other First World economies---replicating the economic structure of
>colonialism on a far wider scale. Privatization of state- owned enterprises
>and currency collapses have led to a massive re-appropriation of the assets
>of the Third World by corporations in the First. The U.S.-driven
>proliferation of "free trade" agreements may just be the final nail in the
>coffin for any hope of independent policy in the Third World. The mechanism
>of control of the New World Order, the IMF, World Bank, and World Trade
>Organization, are all, though ostensibly multilateral, dominated by the
>United States." pgs. 102-103
>
> (The underlying logic of this empire was aptly summed up in State
>Department Policy Planning Study 23, issued in 1948. George Kennan wrote:
>
> 'The U.S. has about 50 percent of the world's wealth but only 6.3
>percent of its
> population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of
>envy and resentment.
> Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of
>relationships which will
> permit us to maintain this position of disparity without
>positive
>detriment to our
> national security. To do so we will have to dispense with all
>sentimentality and day-
> dreaming, and our attention will have to be concentrated
>everywhere on our
> immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves
>that
>we can afford
> the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to
>talk about such
> vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of
>living
>standards and democrat-
> ization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to
>deal
>in straight power
> concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans,
>the
>better.')
>
> "This should be no surprise,or rather, the only surprise should be
>that
>it was admitted so straight-
> forwardly. Much recent sophistry to the contrary, empires are always
>about extraction of wealth
> from the provinces for the benefit of the center, without regard to
>the
>rights of the subject
> peoples. They may not benefit all social strata in the imperial
>nation---in fact, some of the lower
> classes have to fight and die to maintain the empire---but they always
>do benefit an elite. In
> most cases, the wealth is spread around, both among some broad strata
>of
>the imperial center,
> and among a native elite in the provinces, in both to preserve
>political
>stability." pgs. 102-103
>
>
> The George Kennan quote referred to above was made by a Democrat
>(himself) during a Dem-
> ocratic administration. Going forward from there, or if one wishes
>to.....to backtrack to the very
> beginnings of the Democratic Party, one can discover what a shell
>game
>the whole tragic farce
> of the so-called "two-party system" has been. Roosevelt, the wiliest
>fox of the bunch, might not
> only be the savior of the Democrats, but of the whole sorry system!
>But
>if anyone would like to
> discuss or dispute any of this on these lists.....by all means let us
>do so...............Cordially,Green
> Gene (a friend of Red Emma)
>
> P.S. The American Labor movement (the backbone of the Dems can't bear
>too much scrutiny
> either).
>
>Anyone wishing to discuss these matters further can reach me via e-mail but
>preferably by phone. My number is: 972-398-0050 or 972-375-4898 24/7
>
>I have posted this edited thought provoker 4 times previously without much
>response. Everybody happy with the system? Yours in real solidarity, Left
>Green
>Gene (a friend of Red Emma)you know, the anarchosyndicalist. Look that one
>up, cause thats where I'm at.
>
>P.P.S. And now we have the PDA (ha)!
>
>
>
>
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