cinco de mayo: I AM A SENIOR CITIZEN, NOT A COMMUNIST, NOT A HIPPIE AND I TAKE BATHS

Once more, the ultra right is on the attack doing what they do best: vilify and dehumanize their adversaries and have to be frustrated as hell because they can’t find a competent candidate to beat our President.

PEPPER SPRAY GOVERNMENT OF THE 1%

You constantly hear it coming from the radical right, you get it from Fox News, those pervasive and vitriolic lies…they hurl them like shit against the wall hoping that some of it would stick…and for some people it does.

The right wing pundits make remarks like “THE MOBS”, “DIRTY HIPPIES”, “TAKE A BATH”, “GET A JOB”, “LEFT WING COMMUNISTS”, “ANARCHISTS”, “CLASS WARFARE”, “LEFTIST AGITATORS”, “LEFTIST CONSPIRACY”, “COMMUNISTS/MARXISTS” and on and on.

What is it about these people that make them do this sort of thing? To me, it sounds like they ran out of logic and reason, they don’t really have a solid argument so they have to resort to character assassination, to dehumanize and ridicule. We have seen it how they have and continue to do it with our President: “THE KENYAN-INDONESIAN-MUSLIM-TERRORIST-SOCIALIST-UPPITY-INTELLECTUAL-ELITIST” and that too goes on and on. These assholes are relentless, they have no respect for the office nor do they have any idea what they are really doing is slander.

I remember when we went to war with Iraq…an unnecessary war based on lies for the wrong reasons that the President and the Bushists would hurl those same types of accusations if you dared even voice a disagreement. Some people paid a very high price for it as did in the 50’s anybody who would dare criticize Joe McCarthy. A lot of actors and prominent people, including many intellectuals were accused of being communists and even had to go into exile…most lost their careers and their livelihood.

Something similar has been happening in this day and age; remember the FRENCH FRIES debacle? Even if French fries are not really French…and I know because I only found them at McDonald’s on the Champs Elysees….and French toast having been invented far from France because it is a Christmas time dessert in Portugal and Brazil; but they still went after it with a vengeance. French wines suffered a much more humiliating demise in those days…they got poured down the sewers by many of the right wing assholes.

We have now also seen how they destroyed the library of Occupy Wall Street, harkening back to the Nazis and their book-burning orgies. It is typical of a group of people who will not accept reason or logic, facts or a convincing argument…they will invariably resort to this kind of thing.

A group of Nazis hold hands on the steps of the University of Vienna in an attempt to prevent Jews from entering the building. The action led to a day of student rioting which had to be suppressed by the police.

Photo credit: National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives

One way the Nazis cleansed the country of "un-German" thoughts was through censorship. A "brown shirt" (member of the SA) throws some more fuel--"un-German" books-- into a roaring fire on the Opernplatz in Berlin. May 10, 1933.

Photo credit: USHMM Photo Archives

In my opinion if we want America to move forward and abandon this quest for a theocratic-oligarchy based on Bircher ideology; is to charge the Koch brothers for treason and put them in jail; we have enough evidence of their ties to the John Birch Society and all the funding of extremist right-wing organizations that have hurt our country with their hatred and divisiveness.

I know this hatred first hand because I keep getting these comments from “ANONYMOUS” no e-mail, no courage to put a name and a face forward…accusing me of being a communist. I have to say that I have been fighting totalitarianism on the left and on the right for more than 52 years because they are in my mind pretty similar: they both give the power and wealth to 1% of the population while the 99% waddles in a morass of poverty and misery.

In their pea sized brains patriotism is measured by lapel pins, how many anti-Obama bumper stickers you have in your car and how much MORE radical you are than anybody else. Following are some of the examples of the thousands of bumper stickers out there that reflect the basest, most odious and crass ideology; in other words, if you don’t accept that the 1% ought to have all the wealth and all the power and disenfranchise the rest of us then you are a fucking communist/dirty hippie who needs a bath

There are so many of these asinine bumper stickers…here are but a few: