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Taking The Long View
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, August 26 2010, 15:28:47 (UTC)
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Taking the Long View

The whites in America are under attack. At least they feel that way any time their privilleged position is challenged, and that goes for their Christian religion as well. To defend themselves they are chanelling the old debate of Federal power vs State´s Rights....the very same battle fought by the Founding Parents during the time when the U.S. Constitution faced ratification....how much power do you give to the Federal government to trump state government? The first big battle, after the Constitution was adopted came in the Civil War when southern states wanted to keep their slaves while the Federal government said slavery had to end. It came to a war finally and the issue was decided by Federal armies and legislation...the white south has never forgotten that trampling of their rights, as they saw it. They´ve hated the Constitution ever since.

The next major battle was over Civil Rights and the granting of full rights, including where Blacks can eat and whether they can vote freely or not...once again the same forces lined up against each other. Dr King told President Johnson that unless the Federal government stepped in to override Jim Crow racism, the southern states would never change their treatment of their Black citizens...and so the Feds intervened, sent federal troops and forced the states to change, forced them to abide by the US Constitution.

We face the same battle again over Gay marriage as well as full freedom for Muslims. Once again the bigots and racists are hiding behind State´s Rights because they know that left to themselves enough states are filled with enough bigots and racists to triumph...to triumph, in the end, over that detested federal Constitution we´re all supposed to abide by.

No society can exist without at least two factions, Conservatives and Lefties, or Progressives if you prefer...a society made up entirely of Revolutionaries would soon burn itself out, the people being constantly rattled by innovation after innovation with no time allowed for things to settle down and develop, mature and get some traction before the next big change...likewise a society too heavily or exclusively conservative would stagnate and then rot, with no fresh air allowed, no new ideas to replace bad old ones.....Conservatives, especially when their backs are up against the wall, will fight to keep things as they are, with them on top...they´ll even yearn for the "good old days" and try to go back to them, or what they imagine they were like: a time when they had even more and uncontested power than they do now...so Conservatives will fight ANY change, just because it is change.

And in the last 30 years or so there have been lots of changes they don´t like and that they´ve mobilized to fight against...and most often the issues were mere ruses and disguises, such as religion and prayer in school and anti-abortion issues, and now anti-Gay Marriage and anti-Muslim and anti "big government" and taxes etc. All of these, including Patriotism and anti-terrorism, are all the pretexts to get politicians elected, at the federal level most of al, who can then enter office and begin working against the Constituion from the inside...it is the only manner they have found to attack our federal laws...that and by getting Conservative judges on the Bench who can be counted on to bend the Constitution just to the point of breaking in order to keep whites in their place.

America has and is changing and changing drastically...and for the most part those changes have been liberalizing and progressive...which is the reason the Conservatives are up in arms and growing more scared and powerful daily...and the main reason the Media has been bought up so they can emphasize only their views while mocking and distorting all else.

But Gay Marriage and Muslims´ rights may be the salvation of the Constitution for there is no legal way in hell that those opposing either or both can prevail, in a fair court of law...all the way up to the Supreme Court if need be. Gay Marriage and Muslim rights are as much a threat to Conservatives, and only because they change things "too much",as slavery issues and Civil Rights ever were...maybe even more important and challenging....once again a majority want to do things the way they like them...they want to keep slaves, keep Jim Crow, keep Blacks at the back of the bus and keep marriage for only males and femals marrying eacvh other and once again the Federal government will and must intervene to make sure we remain a nation of Laws and not popular whim or prejudice.

There is not a single rational or coherent, let alone legal, argument that anti-Gay marriage and anti-Islamic proponants can give in court, not on teevee or in mega-churches, that makes any LEGAL sense whatever. That´s the reason those forces have lost every time...in court and when up against the Constituion. All the usual racism and "common sense" was spouted about why Black children could not ans should not go to school with white children...but when those arguments had play out in a court of law and not the court of public opinion, they lost big time and schools were FORCED to de-segregate. And that´s exactly what´s going to happen with these new issues: they will ultimately have to be decided by the Supreme Court, at least Gay Marriage will...and we´ll finally see just how much damage Conservatives have been able to do to our laws and heritage.

They have a counter-plan that will take longer and they´ve already manged to get the federal government to bend the Constitution neough to allow federal tax dollars to be spent on religious education in the guise of gaining a "better" academic education for children...they are counting on being able to raise up hordes of Christian soldiers who will one day carry enough votes in enough legislatures to change the Constitution, legally...that is theiur only real and ultimate hope...but it will take time and they´re set for the long haul. They´re already trying to get rid of the 14the amendement and maybe the 17th too...but for now it may just be a trial run to see how the idea sits with the People.

Thank God for Gays and Muslims...they will save our freedoms and Constitution where the Conservatives would just as soon see it, and them, destroyed or gutted to accomodate their fears...and keep them supreme.



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