A Cloying T’Day Message? Don’t Look at Me!

The story goes that the new Americans and the Native Americans broke bread together to celebrate the first harvest feast in 1621. Nice story. It leaves out the fact that we’ve screwed the Native Americans ever since. At a moment in history when the White House fully intends to screw not only all the American people but the whole world, I am not feeling at all sanguine. Nor do I think it is appropriate to lose sight of the fact, even for a day or weekend, that the GOP Neofascisti plan to systematically destroy all vesitges of democracy in the United States during the next four years. One of our problems is that we have allowed ourselves to be lulled into a comfortable sated snooze. And celebrating that overlong nap by feastng and giving thanks that the party in power has at least allowed us to go on living is a desecration of the blossoming idea of democracy in 1621. But then, oppressing the natives in our host country because we had been oppressed in our birth country was a desecration of the idea of freedom in the first place. An article originally appearing in the German newspaper, Die Zeit, was reprinted this morning in Daily Kos. The article refers to the fact that the Supreme Court not the American people made George W. Bush President of the United States in 2000. The whole world knows the 2000 election was a fraud. The whole world is wondering how we have the balls to invade Iraq and preach nonsense about giving them democracy when our own President and Vice President got into office by chicanery, lies, deceit, dirty tricks and fraud. Any prayer that offers thanks for the United States being blessedly free of attacks and bombing, must add the words “so far”. Any prayer offering thanks for the safe haven accorded those who live in the United States must add the words “so far”. Any prayer giving thanks for the rights inherent in the Constitution must add the words, “until the George W. Bush team has its way”. This is not a time for thanksgiving. This is a time for being wary and cautious. The United States has always danced on the razor’s edge that separates democracy from imperialism. Now, after 228 years, we have toppled into undisguised imperialism. This is not a time for thanksgiving. It’s a time to regroup and to figure out a way to defeat the neofascists who now occupy the White House.