The Present Day Republican Party

From Daily Kos:

The current Republican Party is irrelevant to the national conservation. They want trickle down economics – well that’s a proven fail. They deny climate change – that’s a proven fail. The list goes on and on. They are irrelevant to every single national problem the country faces…

Yes they control the House thru gerrymandering. That’s made them politically relevant. But their politics is 100% obstruction; 0% productive ideas. That’s because their only goal is to serve the interests of the wealthy and big corporations. Nobody else matters.

Well, that is about right. Actually, it is 100% true.

The Republican Party is probably the last major political party on Earth that continues to push the lie of trickle down economics – that massive cuts will so stimulate the economy that deficits will vanish. They actually believe that the way to get rid of deficits is via tax cuts! Starve the state of money via taxation and that will fix the government’s budget problem. It’s insane, and it’s never been proven to work. If you lower tax rates, you starve the state of funds, as one would logically think. Tax cuts don’t do much to stimulate the economy when they are directed at the rich who don’t put much of their money into productive investment anyway.

We have had 30 years of tax cutting and where has it gotten us? To this insane hollowed out economy with the worst inequality in the Developed World, flat or declining wages for 30 years, massive floods of immigrants taking American jobs, a ruined safety net, decrepit infrastructure and a Depression brought on Finance Capital that wiped out 40% of the wealth of the average American.

Climate change is as real as the nose on your face. I am not aware of any large political party anywhere on Earth who denies that it is real. If you hear of one, let me know.

Serving the interests of the upper middle class, the rich and the corporations is not in the best interests of the vast majority of Americans.

We need a political project that lifts up as large a percentage of the American people as possible, one that benefits the American majority, not the small upper middle class and wealthy corporate elite. Neither party is offering anything like this as both parties are working only for the interests of the corporations and the moneyed classes.

We have two wings of the Republican Party now:

The conservative wing of the Republican Party = The “Republican Party.”

The liberal wing of the Republican Party = The “Democratic Party.”

Although the left wing of the Democratic Party is still a populist, pro-worker group that represents the interests of the majority of Americans, they are hated by the elites who run the party. A common maxim in modern US politics is that the Republican Party fears its base while the Democratic Party actually hates its base. Recent comments by Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel about the liberal wing of the party (the party’s base) are instructive. See “fucking hippies,” “professional Left,: etc.

One problem is the reactionary nature of the American people, probably the most rightwing people on the planet. Although Obama’s Reaganite neoliberal party is just the liberal wing of the Republican Party, 53% of Americans are so insane that they think that this conservative named Obama is some sort of a Communist (53% of Moronicans say that Obama is a socialist in polls).

The hilarious thing about these polls is that no socialist or Communist thinks that Obama is either a socialist or a Communist. In fact, the socialist-Communist part of the US Left actively despises Obama.

Check out the rage-filled comments on Alternet these days. Alternet commenters are really just the left wing of the Democratic Party, but this is the most furious I have ever seen the US Left at Obama since he has been in office. Most commenters are attacking Obama from the Left in recent days, and they get anywhere from 50-50 to 100% up-votes. If Obama hates his base, its increasingly obvious that the feeling is mutual. Daily Kos on the contrary is made up more of Democratic Party loyalists, people who are politically active. The head of Daily Kos supports Obama, so a lot of his commenters fall in line.

It is also true that the Republicans have control of the House due to gerrymandering. The Democrats won the House election in 2012 about 51-49% if you count all of the votes cast. Therefore, logically, the Democrats ought to control the House in a fair system. However, Republicans won many governorships in 2010 and were able to redraw districts in lying, phony ways (Democrats do this too) so they end up with more Republican members than they are entitled to.

There is something sick and wrong about the way we vote for Representatives. While the voting for President and Senate is largely fair, the voting for the House is not. A state like California that votes 70% Democrat, 30% Republican for the House ought to send a House delegation to Washington that looks like 70-30 (if there are 50 California reps, 35 of them should be Democrats and 15 should be Republicans).

It is also true that the Republicans have done nothing but obstruct when they were in Congress. Congressional Republicans are on record saying that the bad economy is good for the party and that they will oppose any efforts to improve the economy since that will help Obama. That is almost treasonous, but rightwingers typically try to ruin economies when their progressive enemies are in office (see Venezuela and Chile). They have said repeatedly that they voted against things that they supported so as not to give a victory to Obama. That’s just sickening. I can’t imagine what sort of a partisan your average Republican is that they take delight in such treasonous nonsense.

When America Bombed Its Own Workers

On August 30, President Harding placed all of West Virginia under martial law. On September 1, 2,500 federal troops arrived with more machine guns, percussion and gas bombs, and 14 airplanes commanded by World War I hero General Billy Mitchell. Bombs rained on miners’ positions, though their accuracy was problematic; in the early days of flight, bombs were literally “dropped” from flimsy aircraft.” — Robert E. Weir. Workers In America: A Historical Encyclopedia. 2013. pages 67-68.

This little snippet sums up quite well the longstanding American attitude towards working people, towards its own workers, towards its own proletariat. The American attitude is very confused because of course most Americans are workers or proletarians so much of this must be self-hatred. But the attitude that the workers are the enemy has longstanding roots in American political culture. Of course it continues to this day. Neoliberal capitalism virtually defines workers as an enemy class to be suppressed. This is now the philosophy of both parties and the vast majority of the US political spectrum.

Part of the problem is with middle class workers. Managerial types are of course workers, but they are best seen as worker traitors, workers who are traitors to their own class as they line up with the owners and the bosses. In Sweden, almost all of the managerial class is unionized as it ought to be, as managers get screwed by the bosses just as fast as the rank and file do.

And many highly paid workers do not see themselves as workers. Many attorneys and physicians are actually working class people, working for a salary. So are college professors. So are accountants, schoolteachers, journalists, editors, engineers, graphic artists, computer programmers and other IT types, police officers, firemen and many others who often vote rightwing. If you work for a wage or a salary, you are a working class person, period. You are a proletarian who exists at the whim of his boss.

As my late father once said, “Under capitalism, workers and owners are de facto enemies.”

This is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Yet the US worker sees his boss as his friend and not his enemy. He bows down to worship at the feet of the company that exploits him and would fire him to replace him with a machine or a Hindu 1-B or an illegal invader in a Manhattan minute.

But highly paid workers under capitalism often refuse to see themselves as workers. Efforts to unionize white collar workers have failed, as they see unions as blue collar working class organizations for guys with beer bellies, t-shirts and a 6-pack. They think they are better than these people, so they refuse to form unions because they don’t want to be seen as blue collar.

Neoliberal economics benefits, if anyone, the owners of capital and the rich. It is true that highly paid workers have benefited from neoliberalism. The top 20% of citizens make out under neoliberalism, while everyone else gets screwed. The record is clear on this the world over. Under the modified neoliberalism of Bill Clinton, the top 40% benefited while the bottom 60% lost money. Still this is a philosophy opposed to the economic interests of the majority.

In recent years, the benefits of neoliberalism is starting to wane even for upper middle class workers. Last year, salaries for IT professionals declined by 2%. This is part of neoliberalism’s endless war on US workers, who have been replaced by cancerous Hindu-1B parasites for many years now.

Still, hatred of the working class continues apace. The US population has waged war on the New Deal since Ronald Reagan ran against it and won in 1980. Even Barack Obama says the New Deal is dead, reiterating Bill Clinton’s epitaph. Yet Obama has done more than any other politician to put a stake in the heart of the New Deal, proving first that he is a Reaganite and second that he is a hardcore neoliberal, since neoliberalism has defined itself in opposition to the New Deal.

Attacking the New Deal continues to be great politics. Those who attack it win elections over and over while Americans snooze. All over the world, austerity has caused chaos, riots and government overthrow. The US is the only country where the crazed masses seem to the cheer on austerity, which is really their own austerity. The American worker is the most self-hating worker on the planet.

Americans are Overtaxed!

We need tax relief! Tax cuts! Middle class tax cuts! Tax credits! IRS thugs! It’s your money – you earned it, you keep it! Overworked and overtaxed! Crushing tax burden!

Ameritards are so silly. The poor darlings are always overtaxed! Even when they are paying nothing at all, like the vast majority of US corporations, they can’t stop screaming about taxes. It’s the corporate media’s favorite fetish too, since corporations want to be as little taxes as possible. As if that weren’t bad enough, your average American can’t stop bitching about taxes.

Cheating on your taxes is as American as Mom and apple pie, but it’s antisocial behavior. The IRS are the good guys. The tax cheats (that means you) are the bad guys. Paying taxes is a patriotic duty, and the IRS are the heroic cops who make sure that we fulfill our patriotic duty to pay our taxes. You have nothing to fear from the IRS unless you are a criminal who is cheating on his taxes.

Fidel Castro once joked that Americans would love Cuba since there are no taxes in Cuba. However, Cuba is thinking about instituting an income tax due to a large number of fairly high wage earners, and the self-employed (such as small restaurant and bed and breakfast owners), as the make more and more money, see more and more of it taken by the state. It’s not called a tax, but that’s what it is in effect. The self-employed don’t seem to mind because even with the state taking quite a bit of their earnings, they still live very well compared to your average Cuban.

Hating taxes is the right wing’s fetish. It’s too bad that modern Democrats (the liberal wing of the Republican Party) have bought into tax hating foolishness. Every time a Democrat screams that taxes are too high, you give Republicans a huge shot in the arm. Every time you cut taxes, you grow the deficit more and more.

And as the chart below shows, Americans don’t pay high taxes anyway. We pay some of the lowest taxes in the industrialized world. The only states that are lower are Chile and Mexico, which are basically Latin American Turd World shitholes. That’s what you get when you don’t tax your people – the Libertarian dream, a Turd World shithole with a hollowed out state, vast gaps between rich and poor, the rich behind walls and barbed wire, the teeming masses surrounding them in fetid slums, no worker, citizen, consumer or environmental rights, horrific pollution and environmental damage, regular riots in the streets, nightmarish corruption, and death squads to keep it all running along smoothly.

Click to enlarge. “Overtaxed” Ameritards LOL!

A Trifecta of Three Phony “Scandals”

This is a letter I just received. The Republicans are going to gin up another fake impeachment proceeding, along with another Congressional investigation. We are back in the Clinton years, when US democracy dove to the stinkingist fascist and totalitarian depths in its history with endless investigations of one phony scandal after another.

Finally, they impeached Clinton on totally ridiculous grounds (Clinton beat the impeachment handily at a trial). There is one place you see the sort of sick, twisted, corrupt politics crap, and that’s in the 3rd World. The Turd World. The Republican Party has turned America into a gigantic Turd World country.

In the Turd World, there are constant fake investigations of fake scandals, and Presidents are always being impeached on phony political grounds. In addition, Presidents are assaulted, placed under arrest, tortured and even murdered on a regular basis, generally in the context of a military coup. This is particularly prevalent in the Sewer of the World, Latin America. This nonsense has gone on in most Latin American shitholes, including Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guyana, Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Chile.

All of these coups and assassinations have been done by the Latin American rightwing, which is an objectively fascist rightwing movement and always has been. Whenever any populist or progressive government comes in, the rightwing in that Latin American country tries to oust them via assassination, coup or a fake impeachment. The US has supported 100% of these radically antidemocratic and fascist incidents in Latin America. There has never been a single fascist coup in Latin America that did not have the 100% backing of the United Snakes.

In the rest of the world, it is as bad or worse. In Pakistan, presidential candidates are murdered on a regular basis.In the rest of the Turd World, opposition candidates are often jailed or worse. This is what is happening in Turkey at the moment, and it was going on earlier in Iran. Opposition party candidates are murdered on a regular basis in the Philippines.

Scandal hearings should be reserved for the worst of the worst. Iran-Contra and the S & L Crisis are good examples. If you recall, the Democrats did not turn either of those hearings into impeachment proceedings. Impeachment should only be for the worst of crimes. A good example was President Nixon, who would have been impeached had he not resigned, for bugging the headquarters of the Democratic Party during the 1972 campaign. I can hardly think of a single impeachable case since 1972. This is just dirty politics and nothing else, and it is sleazy as Hell.

Every Administration will have scandals of various types. It is inevitable under our money infested system where both parties are tied to big money and corporate rule. In almost all cases, these scandals are run of the mill things that any Administration goes through. However, whenever a Democratic President is in office, any of the usual scandals that any Administration deals with will have huge hearings in Congress, threats of impeachment and special prosecutors.

Objective evidence shows that there were far more scandals and there was far more corruption under Bush and Reagan than under Clinton or Obama. But no matter how corrupt or scandal ridden a Republican is, the spineless Democrats will never do anything about it. Not a single hearing, no special prosecutor, no impeachment proceedings. On the other hand, the far fewer scandals under a Democrat will be turned into a Ringling Brothers affair that dominates the idiotic headlines for months to years.

Nothing Obama has done warrants impeachment or even a hearing.

The Benghazi Consulate was a CIA office – 80% of the personnel there were CIA officers. The Islamists knew that, and that is why it was attacked. The CIA failed to provide enough security for the consulate, and they relied too much on unproven Libyan security.

The call for backup amounted to a call for “4 men” to arrive. Do you think 4 armed US forces would have turned the situation around? There was a call to bring in a helicopter gunship to fire missiles or machine gun fire or a jet to bomb the area. However, the area is surrounded by civilians, and in the initial attack, no one really had any idea what was going on.

There was an order given to stand down and not send in air power until more could be learned about the confused situation. The forces on the ground evacuated the Americans from the consulate to a safe house, but the Islamists were waiting at the safe house for them.

In a hazy situation were no one knew what was going on, it would have been madness to drop bombs or shoot missiles at the heavily inhabited area at the consulate, the safe house and the area in between. The forces at the consulate fought very well. Although 4 Americans were killed, 32 were rescued. In addition, ~100 Islamist attackers were killed.

          Benghazi #killed

Americans 4
Islamists 100

This was a battle in a war we are fighting with Al Qaeda and allied Islamists. By any standard metric, we won this battle. It is beyond me why this is some sort of a scandal. We fight battles all the time in the war with Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other Islamists. Some we win, some we lose. Sometimes our men are killed or wounded. Should there be hearings, special prosecutors or impeachment proceedings every time an American is killed by the enemy overseas? What kind of insanity is that?

The IRS scandal is a joke. As a result of Citizens United, many political outfits such as Karl Rove’s Crossroads set themselves up as tax exempt social welfare organizations that do not engage in political work. Obviously, this is a lie. This was mostly done on the Right, as word went out via Karl Rove to the rightwing grassroots to claim social welfare status to pay no taxes.

Approximately 250-300 groups with “tea party” in their name engaged in this crime by lying and calling themselves social welfare organizations. The IRS identified all of these groups engaged in this fraud and crime and sent them letters demanding to see their paperwork.

Since a vast amount of “tea party” groups were engaging in this sort of crime, lower level IRS officials in Indianapolis targeted every group with “tea party” in their name and sent them these letters demanding that they prove they were a political group or a social welfare group. Unfortunately, a number of liberal organizations also committed these crimes and called themselves social welfare groups to claim tax exempt status. All of these liberal groups were also targeted by the IRS and they received letters demanding to see their paperwork.

The IRS was completely correct to do what they did. There was no scandal, not even the whiff of one. When 300 groups with tea party in their name are engaging in crime, it looks like smoke. Where there is smoke, there is fire. That massive crime spree by tea party groups was enough to put every group with tea party in their name under suspicion.

It is right and proper for the IRS to determine if any political group of any stripe of committing crime by falsely representing themselves. In addition, liberal groups committing these crimes were also questioned. When you commit crimes, you may get called in for questioning by authorities. This is the job of the authorities. If you abuse tax laws and cheat on your taxes, expect a call from the IRS. This was no political prosecution. The local Indianapolis office was 100% correct in what they did.

Obama caved in spinelessly as usual, firing the IRS Director for the crime of enforcing tax law and fighting tax criminals and massive tax fraud and evasion. A cop was fired for enforcing the law because the Republican criminals and their friends demanded he be fired.

I do not know enough about the targeting of AP reporters’ phone records. This is not a prosecution of the media. Instead, they were trying to find out who was leaking to the AP about the CIA’s secret wars overseas. So this is part of Obama’s war on whistleblowers.

The war on whistleblowers went completely wild under Ronald Reagan, who attacked whistleblowers more than any previous president. It has continued to this day. It was particularly nasty under George Bush and included the outrageous outing of active CIA agents for political purposes. Republican and Democratic Administrations both have gone after whistleblowers in a vicious way.

Republicans screaming about this were utterly silent when George Bush and Ronald Reagan waged all out war against whistleblowers. In addition, Republicans have, up until this point, backed all of Obama’s anti-whistleblower activities.

In fact, they have accused him of being soft of whistleblowers – see the Bradley Manning case, where Republicans have called for Manning to be executed – and the Wikileaks case, where the Republicans have called for Julian Assange to be arrested, sent to the US, tried and executed for treason. They have also called for Assange to be assassinated by a US hit squad. So you see, even if Obama wages a war on whistleblowers, the Republicans support it and even double down on it.

Impeach the President. Seriously?

That’s where the Republicans are going. Rep. Jason Chaffetz could barely keep from giggling at the possibility on CNN yesterday. Even Wolf Blitzer looked a little uncomfortable.

Of course, they want a special prosecutor.

Scott Walker spent his day telling everyone from the La Crosse Tribune to middle-school tour groups that we must appoint a special prosecutor. Guess who’s running for president?

Anyone old enough to remember the nineties knows this can turn ugly fast.

Meanwhile, back in reality, there’s a real scandal taking place: Tens of thousands of kids have been kicked out of preschool. Teachers are being laid off. Meals on Wheels for housebound seniors have been cut.

While GOP consultants across the DC area put Ken Starr back on speed dial, millions of people are suffering from the sequester. The young, the poor and the elderly. Every day, it will get worse.

How Do Republicans Try to Stop Blacks from Voting?

Papiojay writes:

Just a quick question because I am not the most informed voter. What do the republicans do to try and stop Blacks from voting?

Voter ID laws, starving Black precincts for money and machinery so Black voters have to wait in long lines of up to 8 hours, limiting early voting in Black areas while expanding it in White areas, making phone calls to Black voters telling them to vote on the wrong day or at the wrong place or telling them that if they have any arrests or convictions or parking tickets they cannot vote, stationing operatives at the polls to challenge many Black voters by saying that they do not have the right to vote, throwing 100,000′s of legitimate Black voters off the rolls in Florida, refusing to recount Black votes in Florida in 2000 – a state that Al Gore won, trying to stop the Motor Voter law to allow people to register to vote at the DMV.

Lies and Crap about Joanne Chesimard from the FBI and Rightwingers

Here, from an extremely stupid rightwing net mag called The Blaze.

Joanne Chesimard (otherwise known as Assata Shakur) is a fugitive from US justice. She is the first woman ever added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. The fact that she has suddenly been placed there makes no sense and smacks of political bullshit, nonsense and crap, just like everything the United Snakes government does.

Chesimard was a member of a radical Black guerrilla group that split off from the Black Panthers. This group was called the Black Liberation Army. They apparently committed quite a few times in the short period during which they were active, mostly in the early 1970′s. Chesimard appears to have been involved in quite a few crimes, including robberies and possible homicides.

She is charged with the murder of police officer Werner Foerster in 1973. She was in a car with other BLA members when they were pulled over for a tail light violation. In an ensuing struggle, Foerster was shot dead. According to the article, Chesimard killed him, but she has always insisted that she is innocent and was shot herself in the incident. The gusano* author added in this bit of idiocy:

As trooper Werner Foerster grappled with the driver, Chesimard shot him twice–then her gun apparently jammed. As Foerster lay on the ground wounded and helpless, Chesimard grabbed the trooper’s own gun and blasted two shots into his head, much in the manner of her Cuban idols Che Guevara and Raul Castro murdering hundreds of their own (always defenseless at the time) “counter-revolutionary” enemies.

There were 600 executions after the revolutionary victory. Those executed were accused of war crimes during the war, mostly running death squads. Rightwing death squads had slaughtered 10,000′s of Cuban civilians during the war: teachers, students, union members, peasants, etc. Those criminals got what they deserved!

Also I am not aware that Raul Castro himself ever executed a soul. The death squad members were killed by firing squad.

Prior to this incident, Chesimard had been arrested or detained a number of times, and had been put on trial more than once for various crimes. Somehow she always seemed to get acquitted. She moved around all the time. Police often raided places where she had just stayed, finding only empty apartments. She seemed to be some sort of master urban guerrilla, often donning disguises and seeming to stay one step ahead of the law. Even when she was imprisoned, she seemed to escape. She was finally captured four years after the crime in 1977, tried and sentenced to Life + 33 years.

In 1979, she was broken out of prison by a super-professional team. The ridiculous article above written by the fanatical anti-Castro Cuban gusano* Humberto Fontova says that Cubans helped to break her out of prison. I have read quite a bit about this case, and I have never heard that before. True, the team that broke her out was very good, but I have always heard that they were just BLA members or other radicals such as Weather Underground cadres.

She was then taken to Mexico, where arrangements were made to ship her to Cuba. At that time, Cuba was regularly taking in what they called “US political prisoners.” This article makes it sound like Cubans were helping the BLA all along. That would certainly be news to me, and in all of the reading I have done on the BLA, this is the first time I have heard that the Cubans helped them. Then we read this bizarre quote:

Since then, according to New Jersey State Police Col. Rick Fuentes, Chesimard “flaunts her freedom…To this day from her safe haven in Cuba Chesimard has been given a pulpit (by Castro) to preach and profess, stirring supporters and groups to mobilize against the United States by any means necessary. She has been used by the Castro regime to greet foreign delegations visiting Cuba.”

I have read Assata Shakur’s writings for years now. She isn’t stirring up anyone to do anything, and there’s no one to stir up anyway. There are no US radical leftwing groups of any significance, and there are certainly no armed ones. So whatever she says has no consequences anyway. She’s no threat to the US; that’s ridiculous. Rick Fuentes is probably another Cuban gusano from New Jersey. New Jersey has nearly as many lunatic gusanos as Florida does.

“Joanne Chesimard is a domestic terrorist,” declared FBI agent Aaron T. Ford, during a recent news conference. “She absolutely is a threat to America.”

Listen to this FBI dipshit! Perhaps Chesimard is a domestic terrorist, though I doubt it. They thought they were at war with the US government, and apparently cops were a fair target in that war. Many guerrilla groups target various types of cops in their wars against the state. Bottom line is she is probably not a terrorist for killing a cop. Cop killer? Ok. Terrorist? No way. She is a threat to America? What an idiot! How is that? She is sitting over there in Cuba just like she has been for over 30 years now. She’s never leaving Cuba. She can’t possibly harm the US in any way whatsoever.

What is bizarre is why all of a sudden the stupid government has dredged up this old case. Chesimard has been on the lam for 34 years now. Now all of a sudden she is thrown onto the FBI’s Most Wanted List? Makes no sense.

What seems to be going on here is a major US multipronged attack on the Cuban government. Why this is happening is not known. A spy who went to Sweden long ago, wanted by the US on charges of spying for Cuba, has seen her case suddenly dredged up. She has been sitting over in Sweden forever, and almost everyone had forgotten about her case.

Around the same time, Beyonce and Jay-Z were called in to the State Department and charged with the bizarre crime of taking a vacation in Cuba. Yes, it is actually illegal in this “free country” for Americans to go to Cuba for any reason, including taking a vacation. Why? Because the Cuban Lobby (the gusanos) has demanded this, and the Cuban Lobby gusanos have always run the US government on the Cuba Question.

Recently, Cuban officials made strong overtures to the Obama Administration saying that they wanted to have talks on all issues, including the US colonial base occupying sovereign land in Guantanamo Bay to the embargo to any other issues. Obama told Castro to go to Hell. These anti-Cuba measures are probably an offensive by the gusanos and their allies in the US government to head off any improvement in relations between the two nations.

*Cuban exiles, especially the fanatical anti-Castro variety (Is there any other kind?) are known in Cuba as gusanos. Gusanos is Spanish for worms.

Conservatism/Libertarianism: What’s in It for Blacks?

Tulio writes:

White conservatives would use the same argument that he is. So what’s remarkable about this?

I guess it shows you how utterly fucktarded conservatives really are. They actually believe this swill: Liberalism causes crime! The more liberals, the more crime!

Are you kidding me? There are actually human beings that are so stupid as to believe this?

Tulio writes:

And there’s nothing wrong with being black and a conservative or libertarian. People don’t have to vote with their skin color, you know.

What would conservatism or Libertarianism ever do for Black people? Every Black country that ever tried radical capitalism and minimal government with no social programs ended up with something that looked like Haiti. Black people are basically socialists for a reason. Pull the state out of a Black nation and it reverts to the jungle in no time.

Furthermore, the modern conservative/Libertarian movement if chock full of hardcore racists and is extremely anti-Black. If anything, the Libertarians are even more anti-Black than conservatives because Libertarians want to dismantle all civil rights laws. Every time a Republican comes into office, the first thing they do is try to defund and defang the Civil Rights Division of the US Justice Department. This horror started under Reagan, who nearly wiped out the department altogether. Reagan kicked off his campaign in 1980 by going to the Mississippi town where the three civil rights workers were murdered back in the 1960′s. Before a cheering crowd of White crackers, he gave a profoundly strange and racist speech. This was nearly a racist call to arms against Black people. Reagan is the God of all US conservatives. The entire movement is based on that one man: he is their hero.

Under George Bush, there were almost no prosecutions by the Civil Rights division, especially under the Housing Rights Act.

Republicans have been trying to keep as many Black people from voting as possible for many, many years now.

The truth is that the modern US conservative movement is a vicious, ferociously anti-Black racist movement and has been since that racist dog took office in 1980.

US Conservatives Are Not Evil; They Are Insane

I really don’t think most US conservatives are evil or bad. I just think they are wrong. Actually I do not think they are wrong. I know they are wrong. Almost everything they say and believe is simply wrong. For the most part, what they believe are lies, nonsense, crap, idiocy and bullshit. If we know a human being whose beliefs are all nonsensical, we usually won’t say he is evil. We might be charitable and just say he is a nutcase.

Almost all of the problems with US conservatives are because they are ludicrously partisan. To be partisan is one thing, but a conservative will never admit he is partisan.

Let us look at some examples:

Benghazi Embassy scandal: There was no scandal. Al Qaeda is waging a global war on us, and they will attack our troops and embassies any chance they can get. The Administration tried their hardest to fortify the embassy, as hard as any other administration would have tried. The diplomatic aspect of the state in the State Department is nonpartisan. Embassy personnel are staffed via the Pentagon and the CIA and contractors. Under any administration, priority will be on protecting the lives of diplomatic personnel and the integrity of US embassies.

Democratic administrations are not so stupid as to scrimp on security overseas, and there is no evidence that Republicans protect embassies any better than Democrats. One of the worst attacks ever on a US embassy occurred in 1983 when Hezbollah hit the US Embassy in Beirut. Almost all the American “civilians” killed were working for the CIA, but don’t let that bother you.

As sometimes happens, our enemies got the best of us one day in Libya. This would never have happened under Gaddafi, but we overthrew him and put Al Qaeda in charge of Libya, so that’s why our embassy got overrun.

Truth be told, wasn’t the 9-11 attack on the US far worse than the Benghazi attack in which one ambassador was killed? On 9-11, 3,000 Americans were killed, on our own soil nonetheless. But somehow to conservatives this is not a failure to protect the US homeland and citizens, but an attack that kills one ambassador is? That’s just partisan bullshit; it’s nothing more and nothing less.

If the Benghazi attack occurred under a Republican President, conservatives would not have said a word. Security failures only occur under Democratic Presidents, never under Republican Presidents. If 9-11 would have occurred under a Democratic President, conservatives would still be screaming about how “the liberals let Al Qaeda attack us.” But since it happened under a Republican, you will never hear a word of this. This makes no sense. 9-11 was either a security failure or it was not. It can’t be the case that it would have been a security failure under a Democrat, but since it occurred under a Republican, it could not possibly be one.

Lie: Obama represents something called “Chicago-style politics.” The implication here is that Obama is corrupt to the core, a representative of corrupt Chicago Democratic Party-labor union machine politics going back decades. The truth is that that corrupt machine got dismantled quite some time ago. It is true that Democratic politics in Chicago used to be very corrupt, especially under Mayor Daley. Corrupt elections were the norm, and dead people voted early and often.

Corrupt Democratic crooks in Chicago stole so many votes in Chicago in 1960 that they probably gave John F. Kennedy the election. So JFK no doubt stole his way into office. The dead have not voted in Chicago in quite some time, and federal RICO prosecutions and raids have pretty much shut down the overtly corrupt aspect of Chicago politics. To my knowledge, Chicago politics nowadays is no more corrupt than the politics of any other large US city.

Furthermore, there is no evidence that Obama is part of any Chicago corrupt Daley-style machine. That machine was made up of old style ethnic Whites, and the new Democratic politics in Chicago is much more progressive, even radical, and clean. It’s true that Penny Pritzger, Rahm Emanuel and Bill Ayers were part of the local politics scene, but neither one is corrupt. In fact Ayers and other radical types would be very against that sort of thing. Emanuel and and Pritzger come out of US finance capital and are as corrupt or non-corrupt as anyone tied at the hip to Wall Street as almost 100% of the Republican Party is.

How about Obama since he has been in office? There is no evidence that the Obama Administration is particularly corrupt as an Executive Branch. Sure, they take lots of corporate money, but the Republicans take way more, and that’s all legal anyway. There have been very few serious corruption cases under Obama.

The truth is that corruption in the US reached an all-time recent high under Ronald Reagan. It was also very high under George Bush Jr. The more capitalist the political party is, the more corrupt it is. The Democrats are not so wedded to US big business and multinational corporations as Republicans are, hence you see a lot less corruption. Any political party with profound ties to Big Capital will almost always be extremely corrupt. This fact can even be shown on a worldwide scale. Parties that are more socialist or populist and less tied to the rich and Big Capital will tend to be less corrupt since there is less Big Money to go around and they at least pay lip service to the lower 80% of the population.

Conclusion: There is no “Chicago-style politics” anymore, and even if there is, Obama is not representative of it. The old machine is dead and gone, possibly never to be revived. That Obama is some corrupt, vote-stealing, bribe-taking, brutal Daley style machine crook is simply nonsense.

Lie: Obama is killing the Keystone XL pipeline because he has ties to the Waltons, heirs to the Walmart fortune, who will lose big money if the pipeline goes through. Truth is that Obama, corporatist that he is, largely supports the Keystone XL, but he is under huge pressure from environmentalists to cave in. So Obama the corporatist is caught between his Big Money backers in Big Oil (Obama is a strong supporter of Big Oil) and the environmentalists on the Left of his party.

Obama, being a rightwing corporate capitalist whore, is inclined to support the pipeline because his corporate pimps demand it of him. However, he is pressured from the Left to kill the pipeline. So he is caught in a bind. The only wavering he is doing at all is because he is under pressure from environmentalists. If he stops Keystone XL, it will be because the environmentalists convinced him.

Conclusion: Obama has no position on Keystone XL, but is inclined to support it. But he is under pressure from his Left to kill it. The verdict is up to him.

Lie: Environmental organizations lie about the environment because they are paid many millions of dollars to lie about it. This is simply not true. Environmental groups are not corrupt, and there is no money in protecting the environment. There are no rich or business interests paying off environmental activists to do this or that. The entire environmental movement really is anti-capitalist.

Its goal is to shut down or regulate various capitalist enterprises so they can not make any money at all since they are not allowed to start up or because their operations are shut down. In other cases, it seeks to regulate capitalist enterprises in such a way as to limit the profits of Capital. The capitalists are the ones with money in capitalist societies. Since the goals of environmentalists’ projects are to limit or in some cases to disallow capitalists’ profits, no capitalist will ever support this movement.

It is certainly possible that there are rich people somewhere dishing out millions of dollars to environmental groups in order to lie about environmental problems, but there is no evidence that this is occurring. Anyway, US environmental problems are bad enough that there is no need to lie about anything; the truth is bad enough as it is. I have been following this movement for decades now and I have never uncovered a single case of environmentalists inventing nonexistent problems or even exaggerating current ones. There’s no need to do so. If projects are environment-friendly, environmentalists are content to let them go forward.

Conclusion: There are no environmental groups lying about environmental problems as the truth is bad enough. 100% of the lying is on the side of the capitalist destroyers and polluters who obviously have huge pecuniary interest in lying. No one is giving millions of $ to environmentalists to make up lies, and there is no evidence that no one ever has.

Lie: China and India are causing the majority of global warming, so we needn’t worry about global warming here in the US. Pollute away!

The truth is that China and India together cause ~8% of global warming in the world. Sure it is on the rise, but that is the current figure. Most global warming is coming out of the West.

Conclusion: The West is causing global warming, not the rest of the world.

Lie: Barack Obama, radical Islamist Kenyan born Muslim, is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The MB are radical Al Qaeda style terrorists who hate the US and Israel. It is true that the MB are radical Islamists and they are pretty nasty. But a Republican administration would probably also support the MB regime in Egypt. Egypt gets that $2-3 billion/year as a payoff for making peace with Israel back in 1979.

So all those billions are not going for the radical Islamist MB in Egypt, instead it is going for a bunch of Jews squatting in Palestine. It’s a payoff to the Jews, nothing more, nothing less. If you’re upset about it, head on over to Hymietown, find yourself a deli, and complain to anyone who will listen to you.

Truth is that due to geopolitics, a Republican administration would probably have to support the MB to the tune of $2-3 billion a year too. If you cut off all that aid, Egypt might just tear up that peace treaty with Israel, and we can’t have that. So the aid stays, no matter which administration is in charge.

Besides, there is not a whole lot of evidence that the Egyptian MB is any more radical Islamist than the radical Sunni Islamist regimes in the Gulf. Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen are all run by radical Islamist regimes. In fact, the Egyptian MB has very deep ties to the Wahhabi clergy in Saudi Arabia, and it was the emigration of many MB Islamists to Saudi Arabia due to persecution by secular regimes that helped fuel Al Qaeda in the first place.

What created Al Qaeda? Al Qaeda was created when large numbers of MB activists from Egypt and then later from Syria migrated to Saudi Arabia due to persecution by secular regimes in Egypt and Syria. The Wahhabi clerics had been rather quietist up until this point. But the MB cadres were radicalized by persecution and torture in their homelands, and they riled up the locals, turning up the heat on the quietist Wahhabi clergy. It was out of this union of Mediterranean MB activists with Saudi Wahhabi clergy that Al Qaeda itself was born.

Conclusion: Obama probably doesn’t like the Egyptian MB regime any more than any Republican would. But the rules of geopolitics are that Egypt must be supported as a consequence of US support for Israel. As with so many things in the Middle East, all roads lead back to Jerusalem.

Walter E. Williams: Idiot, Tool, Black Conservative

The latest Walter E. Williams article.

A truly insane article by a typical Black conservative nut. This kook points out the logical fact that is known to anyone: What do the Top 10 US cities with the highest crime rates have in common? Guess what? They are chock full of Black people! Duh.

One would draw certain logical conclusions from these obvious facts, but a Black conservative is too much of partisan monkey liar to ever do that. As bad as Black liberals can be (and they can be pretty bad), Black conservatives are by far the worst that the Black race has to offer.

According the Williams, the logical conclusion that we draw here is twofold:

1. These cities are full of Black folks.
2. They are all run by Democrats, for the most part liberal Democrats.

Conclusion: Liberal Democratic administrations cause unbelievable amounts of crime!

I kid you not. Black conservatives really are that stupid. As if Black people would act any better under a hard rightwing administration, not that they would ever elect one.

We have an actual experiment to see if this is true: the South. All Southern states are run by radical rightwing Republicans. Before that, they were run by radical rightwing Democrats. All of those states have been run by Black-hating racist White people for ever and ever. And how do Black people act down South? Perfectly horrible. They act as bad as Black people do anywhere. Why would Black folks suddenly act better if a rightwing Republican racist White massa was in charge, cracking the whip on those niggas? You think is going to stop making them act up? Come on.

The truth is that those cities are full of crime for the precise reason that they are full of Black people. Once you get a city full of Black people, you tend to get a city with lots and lots of crime. Those Black people created all that crime, and they will create about as much crime whether they are under a liberal Democratic administration as when they are under a Republican white racist massa administration.

Williams is truly crazy: a Libertarian Black. Black Libertarians are even more insane than Black conservatives. About 3% of Blacks are Black conservatives. We know this because ~3% of Black voted for Mitt Romney in the last election. However, if you looked at the US news media, you would think that 50% or more of Blacks are conservatives. Black conservatives may be as rare as four leaf clovers, but the “liberal” media loves them, and loves to over-represent them as demonstrative of the politics of US Blacks. If you are a US Black conservative, you are almost guaranteed of getting your own radio or TV show or your own newspaper column.

Does anyone on Earth think that Libertarianism will do anything for US Blacks?

Libertarianism is what exists in the 3rd world. In the 3rd World, the state is almost nonexistent, spends almost no money on the people on social programs, and what money it does have goes solely for police and military to enforce class rule over the lower classes and the workers. If the lower classes and workers get too out of hand, you just call out the cops and army and slaughter them.

Other than that, the government exists solely as an arm of the richest sectors of society and serves to protect their interests. The rich and business classes get to do everything and anything they want to. The state is starved for funds because the businesses and the wealthy pay no taxes, and the elites don’t believe in government spending anyway due to “the threat of a good example.” If the state spends money on pro-people programs, that is socialism, and we oppose socialism. Also the people might come to like this socialism and might want to have a more socialist country. This would interfere with the moneyed interests of the nation’s elites, so we can’t have that.

Libertarianism is what Blacks have in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and a few other places. Probably Haiti is the best example because it is the most Libertarian society ever attempted in a Black country. You can see how well that is working out!

Over in Africa, we can look at Kenya, Nigeria or Zaire as examples of nearly Libertarian Black countries in which elites steal 100% of the money in society leaving the masses with nothing but starvation and disease. As you can see, that is working out just fine!

Most other Black nations are socialist to some degree or another, so it hard to find a Black example of a radical rightwing country, but the above examples are pretty good.

Libertarianism won’t do anything good for Black people. All it will do is turn Black neighborhoods and cities like Detroit and Oakland into Haiti or Nigeria. If you think that is an improvement on the present state of affairs, you are wrong.

Islamophobes are Insane

Despite the fact that I have some critical views about Islam myself, I continue to hold that the Islamophobes of the world are insane. They make no sense at all. Another commenter noted recently that the Hindutvadis of India (really nearly all middle to upper class high caste Hindus) have a hatred of Islam that makes no sense whatsoever and is completely irrational. I would agree with that. The Hindutvadi commenters on this blog have a truly irrational hatred of Islam.

To some extent it is true that Islam is a menace, and it is a violent religion, but it’s mostly a problem in the various sandboxes that are ruled by Islam. In other words, Islam is mostly a problem for Muslims and not for the rest of us. To the extent that it is a problem for the rest of is is mostly due to the fact that we can’t seem to stop attacking and killing Muslims. As long as we do that, they will wage defense or revenge based Islam on us.

The truth is that that most Islamophobes are motivated by reaction. There are very few progressive Islam-haters (there are some in Afghanistan and Iran) because Islamophobia is not a progressive value.

Almost all Islamophobes in the West are motivated by political reaction. In other words, they are beasts themselves – they are the very beasts that they accuse the Muslims of being. In Europe, Islamophobes are associated with the most reactionary elements of Europe – European and even White nationalists. They are also associated with all of the fascist and quasi-fascist parties in Europe.

They are strongly aligned with Zionism, a vile imperialist and settler-colonial fascist project that occupies and conquers Arab lands and has expansionist aims on the rest of it.They are politically reactionary, and many of them have begun to rail against socialism and the welfare state and have started to rail for radical neoliberal economics. In the UK, they are responsible for Crusade-like invasions of Muslim lands in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan.

In Russia it is much the same, except the Islam-haters are even worse – more racist, more fascist and much more violent. They are associated with a violent project to deny the majority-Muslim lands in the Caucasus their right to self-determination, which is their inherent right after all. Instead, like Crusaders of recent European colonizers, the Russians have made much of the Caucasus into colonies. In the meantime, they committed genocide against the Muslims of Chechnya.

In Israel, the Islamophobes are associated with the most fascist,  backwards, conquering and expansionist elements of the Jews. I should note that these same elements hate Christians and non-Jews about as much as they hate Islam. These are the monsters of the Jewish people, as wicked as they accuse the Muslims of being. This group is also politically reactionary, and is responsible for imposing radical neoliberalism on Israel which has resulted in many social problems, including widespread homelessness.

In Lebanon, the Muslim haters are associated with the Maronite Christian Falangist movement, a true fascist movement that has the distinction of being the first movement to bring European style fascism (like the Nazis) to Lebanon. The founders of this movement worshiped Hitler. This is a true monstrosity, a blood and soil fascist movement that has deep roots in Maronite society. In addition, this group is politically reactionary, supporting the closest thing to radical neoliberalism anywhere in the Arab World.

In India, the Muslim haters are the most poisonous, backwards, fascistic and casteist elements of Indian society, strongly associated with the high caste Hindu elite. There is a lot of evidence that the hatred of Islam by Hindutvadis is because the Muslims humiliated the high castes and removed them from their position of privilege in Hindu society. This is an extremely fascist movement whose leaders also worshiped Hitler. They are responsible for a genocide against Muslims in Gujarat in which 2,500 Muslims were slaughtered with state support.

This movement is associated also with radical neoliberal economics and hatred for socialism and the poor and lower castes of India. It is an elite movement designed to deepen poverty in India, enrich the high castes and restore the high castes to their position of privilege which they felt was denied them in a movement since Independence. They represent the most primitive and barbaric elements of Hindu culture, which is backwards, cruel, amoral  and parasitic anyway. These are the monsters of India and the monsters of the world, a danger to the SubCon and to the rest of us as they spread out like a plague around the globe. They are every bit as vicious and monstrous as the Muslims they hate so much.

The bottom line is that Islamophobes are simply bad people.

Everywhere it exists on Earth, it is associated with idiotic and barbaric religious fundamentalism, either Jewish, Christian or Hindu. It is generally associated with the most reactionary elements in every society, and it usually wishes to impose radical rightwing economics on society in the form of neoliberalism.

This is an elite project designed to enrich the top 20% of society while impoverishing when it is not starving or killing off the bottom 80%. It has been responsible for many millions of deaths in the last few decades, mostly via denial of medical care through mandated state kickbacks. In some societies like Israel, Europe and Russia, it is associated with racism in the form of ethnic nationalism – Jewish nationalism in Israel and White nationalism in Europe and Russia.

If Islamophobes were decent people themselves then we might have a movement to counterpoise the backwards and violent nature of Islam. Instead they are just as bad as the Muslims and in fact in many cases, they are probably even worse. They vastly exaggerate and lie about Muslims and Islam, and ridiculous overplay the dangers associated with this religion, which is mostly a danger to its own adherents anyway.