Traditional American values are unethical

[Cleita]

In ancient Greece, democracy was really meant only for certain tribes of property owning men. Anyone else was the property of the free, democracy enjoying males, whether wives, children, serfs or slaves.

Traditional American values are unethical because they are rooted in class elitism, racism and sexism much as democracy was in ancient Greece. Our founding fathers, who penned the Constitution of the United States, were steeped in this tradition. In the same way, the founding fathers wrote the Constitution to benefit the white gentleman farmer and plantation owner preferably of English ancestry.

Since Native Americans and African slaves were considered inferior human species, it didn’t cross their minds very often that these people could also be entitled to the same rights they enjoyed. When they said “all men are created equal”, it was really an exclusive club and didn’t embrace all of humanity including women.

Even the women of their station, who were acceptable as wives and mothers of their children, were considered inferior in intellect and therefore not to be trusted with a vote. Instead they were treated as another child, economically dependent on them and protected from harm, but not allowed to make any decisions about their lives without the approval of a father, husband or brother.

Immigration was allowed only because the elitist, white Americans needed a working class when owning another human being as a slave became distasteful, first in the north and forced upon the south after the Civil War.

These are the traditional values embraced by the Republican Party handed down from generation to generation. Democracy to them is really an elite club of white men and those who walk in lockstep with those privileged white men. Anyone else is here to serve that elite club.

This is why the Republican administration in power today wages war on other nations with impunity. Of course they are entitled to anything those invaded nations own. God put all that oil in the Middle East for entitled white men to take for their own use. This is why there is no really meaningful action taken about illegal immigration. Those entitled Republican business owners need the cheap labor without having to give back anything in return, like decent wages and benefits.

The bread and circuses inauguration display today only confirms this attitude. On a day when American lives are being lost because of a war born of greed and entitlement, when innocent Arab lives are being ruined and lost, the balls, cocktail parties and celebrations will go on because the people who considered themselves entitled to all that the world has to offer are dancing on the graves of those whose lives they have treated like a cheap commodity.

We need a real moral majority to bring us into the twenty-first century, not a repeat of Roman, elitist imperialism.