Posted by
skep41 on Monday, July 07, 2008 12:07:24 PM
Well we all just have celebrated another Fourth Of July holiday. Its a
festive day, one in which guys dressed in eighteenth century get-ups
try to sell us mattresses and used cars at Amazing Discounts! to show
how patriotic they are. But what is the holiday really about? Is this
blood-stained, imperialist, capitalist legacy really something we
should be bragging about or should we hang our heads in shame? What
obligation do we have to admire and laud fifty-eight slaveowning
capitalists as they started a bloody war against a government which
clearly had the best interests of the people at heart.
Why did
these troublemakers rise up against their legally instituted rulers?
They were rich guys who didnt want to pay their fair share of taxes,
thats why! They upholstered their selfish greed with a lot of guff
about 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' and 'natural rights'
but the bottom line was all about cash, dinero, rubles. We can look
back and laugh at the tax rates these guys went to war over too. If
some politician today proposed that a government run on such an
insanely low percentage of the GNP as the self-centered Colonials paid
they would be strapped into a straight-jacket and shipped off to a
looney bin. We're happy to devote fifty or sixty percent of our
earnings to federal, state and local taxes; how else would we know what
kind of light bulbs to use and who would fund the Lawrence Welk Museum
in Kansas if not us enlightened taxpayers? The money for a 'Bridge To
Nowhere' has to come from Somewhere, doesnt it? We like high taxes so
much that we're about to elect people who have been protesting the
current 'low' tax rates for the last six years and are blaming all our
economic woes on them.
When you look at those redneck Founding
Fathers, clinging to their God and their guns like the militia-style
lunatics that they were you have to think about the brutal and
reactionary past which led them to their assault on proper authority.
These fascists admired 'The Pilgrims', a pack of land-grabbing,
sexually hung-up homophobes whose motto was
'He who does not work, shall not eat'. What a naked statement of genocidal intent against the poor! In these more enlightened times we know better;
he who does not work should apply for Food Stamps and turn his absentee ballot over to the Democrats, is a much better adage, one that furthers the march towards Justice.
Does that 'Declaration' include anything about the Right to Free Health
Care? How about justice for Gay people who want to exchange marriage
vows? The right to low-priced gasoline? They left those rights for
progressive judges to discover two centuries later in our 'Living
Constitution'.
Another thing that these maniacs were against was an
economy that was very wisely regulated by proper authorities who were
far enough from the scene to see the big picture and who had a healthy
contempt for capitalism and profits. Green policies which discouraged
polluting local industries and prevented virgin, pristine wilderness
from being destroyed and turned over to agri-business were fought at
every turn by these 'pioneers', whose ignorance and cultural
insensitivity to our Native American's traditions of tribal war and
kidnapping wives and children were responded to with ethnic cleansing
campaigns on the part of the 'settlers'. And what about 'The Boston Tea
Party', where tons of tea owned by a legally chartered government
monopoly were destroyed by vandals who wanted to implement anti-worker,
anti- union 'Free Trade' policies of the sort pushed by the radical
instigator Adam Smith.
The only bright spot in this picture is how
much we've grown as a nation. We love tax rates that are higher than
the ones paid by serfs in the Middle Ages. We live our lives in
accordance to government guidelines and regulations designed to fix the
weather, we understand that the well-being of the collective is more
important than some mythical 'natural rights' which accrue to the
individual for no good reason. We've knocked off all that Supreme Being
crap and have a healthy regard for the Rights Of The Victims; those who
through no fault of their own havent gotten their slice of the American
Dream, whether it be because of racism, bad luck or lack of documents
showing that they are in this country legally. A New Age is about to
dawn! Change is just around the corner! Yes We Can!