El Rushbo, as the #1 Political Educator of the United States, ever, was - easily - the second most important figure in modern American politics (after the election of President Donald J. Trump thrust him into the top spot) and it's guaranteed that millions of Americans will, gladly, carry his legacy of Happy-Warrior Conservatism far into the nation's future. No one made politics as Punk Rock as Rush.
“This is one of the troubles that the liberals get into. They become so doctrinaire, so conformist, that if you don’t fit their little mold right down to their pinkies you’re no liberal. I don’t want to see the conservatives get to that point. We’ve had that trouble with the Birch Society. They say, ‘You either believe in _________ or by God you’re not a Republican.’ Well, I couldn’t agree less.”
That the silliest of us try to make decent conservatives feel bad, for following Goldwater's mandate, means it's time for them to go.
Paul McCartneydid a song declaring Trump "mad" and the media - including the conservative media - makes sure the world knows and hears it. But, make a song about the Democrats - and even promote it to conservative outlets - and they'll make sure A) it will never see the light of day, and B) the artist is ignored, or destroyed, if they haven't conformed to their ideological image of conservatism.
Just a warning to any black artists considering a switch: The Right hates you, and will make life as miserable as any Democrats - unless you suck their dicks, too.
Whether you're stealing money raised for another (using a lawyer named "Badway") or killing kids by raising them religious (using a method called "fasting") caring for others is hard. It's especially difficult in a conservative country insisting A) there's no victims, and B) the best way to "make a difference" is by giving others the bare minimum (you think) needed. Somebody could get hurt.
Of course, since the oppressed know their needs better than anyone, the best thing to do is, ask them what their needs are and provide them, if you can, but - for some reason - that seems too difficult for most little Hitlers to understand (Those who deem themselves as doing "better" are almost always of the mind they know best for someone else - though, obviously, this is NOT even close to true, since they live so well). Especially in America, where white people are a lot like white South Africans, who "must maintain control!" at all costs. It's a compulsion.
Compulsions: one more thing Westerners must let go, in order to free themselves.
West’s…insistence that slavery is a choice needs to be understood…in the ideology of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps celebrated in everything from the 19th-century novels of Horatio Alger to GOP talking points. Religiously, we can see it in distinctively American crazes like the Victorian era’s New Thought and the popularity of the Christian prosperity gospel, which implies that your piety directly impacts your pocketbook. It’s the ideology that underpins our Gwyneth Paltrow-inspired fantasies of “wellness,” our obsessive gym culture, and capitalist “empowerment” complexes like the skin care industry. Physically, spiritually, socially, we are — as a nation — fantasists of control.
"We"? Speak for yourselves, but - well, don't that sound familiar?
The Right will die for it's insincerity regarding the betrayal of blacks and the Republican name
The more I read of slavery, the more one thing becomes clear: Just as capitalism drove slavery, it was conservatism that protected it - and contemporary conservatives are lying about that fact, hiding behind the storied Republican label for cover. Ted Cruz and his ilk have absolutely nothing to do with the brave and moral people involved in the abolitionist movement, and, to this day, they still spout the bogus religion and "state's rights" arguments of the slavers - not to mention maintaining the same culture of arrogance, and general disdain for others, needed to abuse people for money over a lifetime. Read your history and don't be fooled:
The Republican Party was great, but it's current officeholders (and most of their supporters) are anything but,...
"You are animals. If you are able to destroy the home or business of your neighbor, you’ve lost your humanity. If you are able to harm your fellow man, to scare their children, to do so with a clean conscience, merely because of something that some cop may or may not have done, which has nothing to do with you . . . you are a horrible human being. You disgust me, as you should anyone who wishes to be a part of civilized society."
- Steven Crowder, quoted in the National Review
"For years now, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his associates have been deliberately undermining the foundations of internal order in this country. With their rabble-rousing demagoguery, they have been cracking the “cake of custom” that holds us together. With their doctrine of “civil disobedience,” they have been teaching hundreds of thousands of Negroes – particularly the adolescents and the children – that it is perfectly all right to break the law and defy constituted authority if you are a Negro-with-a-grievance; in protest against injustice. And they have done more than talk. They have on occasion after occasion, in almost every part of the country, called out their mobs on the streets, promoted “school strikes,” sit-ins, lie-ins, in explicit violation of the law and in explicit defiance of the public authority. They have taught anarchy and chaos by word and deed – and, no doubt, with the best intentions – and they have found apt pupils everywhere, with intentions not of the best. Sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. But it is not they alone who reap it, but we as well; the entire nation."
Ayn Rand, white's conservative cultist of selfishness and national irresponsibility - along with all the others - should never have been resurrected
Thank goodness, oppressed culture's don't naturally roam to making slaves, sending people away in cattle cars, or firing squads, because America's caucasians would be in some trouble going forward in history. Of course, TMR (always ahead of the cultural curve) long ago switched to an all-white-all-the-time-call-out format, while Salon's Brittney Cooper has only recently gotten to the point where whites have her"utterly undone."But it's Jezebel's Brit Bennett, who finally confesses what everyone's thinking:"I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People." She's got me there, too, because - after my trial-by-fire with emersion in white "culture" - I now have a hard time identifying what "good" even means, in the shitshow that is white America revealed. I mean, considering what hardships whites are saddling blacks with, as I write this, would it be wrong for future generations to subject white's ever-more-unreasonable asses to slavery, cattle cars, and firing squads? White's obstinance (and laughter) in the face of our deaths, coupled with their historical willingness to see others suffer for their benefit, makes it a tough call. "Ethics," as we know it, becomes questionable in their presence - which, in a way, has always been the "good" white people's point. Confronting the weight, of living with 4 centuries of white bullshit, I just wrote something like the following, in an email, to a "good" white person a few days ago:
Reading "a society of solipsism" really brings the point home, for me, because that's what TMR's been blogging about this place for almost a decade. This "modern" society that said the late (and suicidal) Spalding Gray was "brilliant" as he talked about pot affecting his "kundalini," and made multiple con men and women rich selling "The Secret," but today calls Will Smith's Scientology-schooled kids "crazy" for spouting the same inherited garbage everyone was applauding as they grew. (Picking on the black kids really brings the cowardice of these people, not to mention their corrosive racial dynamics, into view.) I could say, "make up your minds, people!" but I'm no longer sure many others have one - or ever have. It's just been my slow torture, equal to anything I've read in the recent report that's got everyone so outraged, now. You've all become Dick Cheney, dripping with evil and the stench of death, to me.
And the world turns. By 2044, whites will be the minority and the kids of these monstrosities, who will be spouting THEIR PARENT'S inherited nonsense, won't have the cover of their parent's superior numbers - so what to do? I imagine future generations will be at a loss, because protecting those who've always been hurting blacks, merely to protect their egos, won't be a winning proposition to the formally oppressed. White's perversion of MLK's teachings are already causing non-violence to lose it's currency and, after another 30 years, and faced with this already-heavily-armed white population, I can't see how it'll last. (If whites don't believe in non-violence - and their heavily-advertised and newly-purchased arsenals clearly say they don't - why will anyone else?) And it's today's remorseless "good" white people, through their open hostility and willful inaction, that will have made it so. They demanded it be this way, and everyone's finally heard them, and these "others" will have no choice but to respond accordingly.
I guess, looking at it objectively, only a very-pre-emptive "congratulations" - for any future carnage to caucasians - are all that can reasonably be offered,...
Aren't you glad Justice Roberts has noticed how much things have changed? (No black person on the planet could pull this.) And it's another sterling example of that "bad culture" we've heard so much about - because this guy pulls out all the stops:
Telling a woman to get to the back of the bus, speaking well of Donald Sterling, saying everyone should get their welfare checks, actually pushing people, etc..
Along with turning his ball cap sideways and doing a little dance, it's quite the performance:
