Tuesday, November 3, 1992...
For one fleeting moment in my life, I thought we could reclaim America from the clutches of Reaganism. On that night, we saw an impossibly charismatic Democrat prevail, the image of his seemingly brilliant wife hugging the wife of the new Vice-President Elect with sheer unmitigated joy, the laughter pervasive and widespread in the crowd in Little Rock, Arkansas which was now the center of the political world as the Clintons and the Gores were delightedly enthroned by the masses assembled that evening.
Time passed: and there was a very young Chelsea Clinton, crying tears as she left her home state for Washington, D.C., an unknown territory filled with strangers and mystery for an adolescent girl: poorly dressed in a time-worn polka-dot dress which belonged in some general store window in the 1950's.
It turned out that Chelsea's upset was well-conceived: our 'hopes and dreams' have been repeatedly dashed by our own people, our own politicians, and our own policies. We are now adrift in some politically pre-Apocalyptic version of America: on the one hand we have the access to unlimited information, unlimited legal graphic sexuality, unlimited entertainment, unlimited sporting events, unlimited libraries of literature, unlimited galleries of paintings and photographs, but we are systematically electing individuals and thus entities which are promoting repression of an individual's lifestyle, State religion, unlimited weaponry distributed among the populus with little or no regard for the intent of its use, deliberate disenfranchisement of distinct ethnic individuals who are citizens of these United States, regressive taxation of the middle and lower classes, destruction of organized labor, and many many more actions which will undermine the progress of the last hundred years.
This was the goal stipulated even while Franklin Roosevelt was implementing his New Deal and Lyndon Johnson was promoting his Great Society. Plans were drawn up to smash them no matter how long it took, no matter what or who had to be sacrificed. The Democrats have had much to do with this and their complicity is evident at the highest levels. We hold this truth to be self-evident.
I do not expect that the job will be finished within my lifetime but it may be completed within my child's who was one year of age on the night of November 3, 1992. The historic election of Barack Obama has allowed the Republicans to employ the techniques of hatred, resentment, and yes, racism to more quickly divide the Nation and to accelerate this process. It is tragic for many including those who do not realize what has happened. My mother of blessed memory used to say that there were three kinds of people: those who made things happen, those who watched things happen, and those who asked, "What happened?". In a number of months, many sleeping individuals will awaken and ask, "What happened?". And the response will be: "Lucy pulled the football away again."
I will tell you that I will not professionally survive another Republican recession. The last one nearly put me completely out of business. The touting of them as the Party of Small Business is a lie, although I suppose that it would not be considered dissembling if we can all agree that Shell Oil or General Foods is a "Medium" business. But of course, it isn't just me whom I am worried about: many many individuals will not survive if health care is withdrawn, if schooling is depreciated by privatizing, if jobs are sent overseas wholesale. There is a higher morbidity and mortality rate for performing each of these actions and it seems that only a minority of people care. So be it, America. So Be. It. It was yours to lose and apparently you are well on your way to doing so.
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