The Tavis/West Poverty Pimp Tour
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Why Attack a Sleeping Sentry Before Repelling the Invading Hordes?
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The primary reason that our government doesn't work, and the institutions that are supposed to be protecting our rights have become monuments to the maintenance of the status quo, is WE, THE PEOPLE have allowed ourselves to become so distracted by the corporate promotion of social hedonism that we're allowing the most ruthless among us to take control of government.
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As I point out in a message to the group, CARMA (Citizens Against Reckless Middle Class Abuse), the poor and middle class will never be secure in their homes, their standard of living, or their jobs until they ensure that their politicians, unions officials, and all other representatives of the people are insecure in theirs.
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Keeping the people divided is the coin of the corporatist realm, and I seriously suspect that Tavis is working in concert with the corporations that he continues to shill for - Wal-Mart, Exxon, Nationwide, Wells Fargo, etc. As for West, if he was even close to as intelligent as the corporate media would have us believe, he’d surely recognize the relevance of the Abraham Lincoln maxim that “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So West is either working in collusion with Tavis’ turncoat agenda, or he’s incredibly stupid for failing to recognize that social manipulators have been keeping the people under thumb with the tactic of social division for centuries - if not eons.
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Cornel West has been on the losing side of the last three presidential elections - in 2000 he supported Ralph Nader, in 2004, Al Sharpton, and in 2008 he jumped back and forth between Tavis Smiley's criticism of Obama and Obama's camp, depending upon which way the political winds happened to be blowing at the time. That's why Obama has little use for him.
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The fact that West is always aligned with losing agendas, and his efforts tend to always be detrimental to the poor and middle class, should clearly demonstrate that West's assessment of the political environment is based more on some obscure theoretical construct than what's practical and in the best interest of the people. He seems to view politics as more of an academic experiment than what actually puts meat and potatos on the table of the poor and middle class. Then when his experiment fails and the people are left miserable and hungry, he says, "Oh well, maybe next time." Then he disappears back into the comfortable embrace of academia to charge outrageously high speaking fees to explain why the poor and middle class don't have meat and potatos.
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So the fact is, the people need to ignore self-serving demagogues like Tavis and West and simply take a lesson from the Tea Party. We need to strictly control those we allow in office and make them immediately accountable for their behavior, period. Thus the problem is not the system; the problem is our apathy, and our failure to control the system.
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The government is SUPPOSED to be us, but we've shirked our responsibility. We’ve allowed ourselves to become more interested in Kobe’s jump shot than we are the education of our children, the future well being of our families, and even the survival of the nation as a whole. We’ve also allowed corporate instigators to create so much animosity among the people that we’ve become more interested in hating one another than we are in coming together to protect our common interests - and Tavis and West are playing a major role in that.
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We do need to get Obama’s attention, however - at this point that’s a given. But our approach should be through educating the people, not by antagonizing half of the population against the other. That’s counterproductive, and it’s also counterrevolutionary - and believe me, the turmoil that’s taking place here in the United States, in the Middle East and Africa, and now in the United Kingdom, clearly attests to the fact that we’re currently knee-deep in a global, class revolution.
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But people like Tavis and West are advocating that we live in a fantasy. They want us to believe that we can lay all of our problems at the feet of Obama. The problem with that is, when you live in a fantasy you're forced to view reality as a myth, so they're completely ignoring the real culprit, and that's the malevolent agenda of the GOP - in fact, they're helping to promote that agenda by spurring division among the people. They’re engaging in the very same kind of hysterically flawed, self-serving, and demagogic behavior that Ralph Nader did during the 2000 election, which led directly to the misery of the Bush era, and ultimately, to the situation that we currently find ourselves.
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Those of us who are students of political history have seen this Tavis/West demagoguery before. They’re following directly in the footsteps of Ralph Nader, one of the worst turncoats in American history.
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During the 2000 election Nader should have pushed his agenda during the Democratic primaries, then if his position was rejected, he should have fallen in line and supported the Democratic candidate if for no other reason than to support the public good. He should have understood that it's foolish to become so disenchanted with the Bogeyman that you elect the Devil. But instead, when his position was rejected, he took it as a personal rejection and acted like a petulant child. He ignored the greater good and purposely sabotaged the Democratic agenda, along with all of the causes that he was supposed to be so passionate about all of his life, and took his ball (and votes) and went home.
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Nader's treachery in this matter negated everything that he ever accomplished in his life. He also betrayed the fact that everything he ever accomplished was done purely for self-promotion and not for the public good, as we had previously assumed. His miserable act of treachery during the 2000 election was purposely designed to help George Bush to win the election. He purposely set out to deny the Democrats a victory in retaliation for rejecting him as a candidate. He placed his petulance before the best interest of the nation. That makes him just as culpable as Bush and Cheney for the death of over a million Iraqi citizens, and the maiming and death of thousands of American troops. He's also partially responsible for the nations current economic condition, which is a direct result of the Bush administration’s purposeful plundering of the United States treasury.
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The Nader/West coalition claim that Nader simply stood on principles, and in an attempt to elude responsibility for bringing George W. Bush into power they contend that it wasn't Nader's fault that Bush won. Their contention is, "Gore simply didn't fight hard enough for a recount." But the underlying message to that argument is, Gore didn't fight hard enough to undo the damage that we'd done. Because the facts are clear. Bush won the election in Florida by 537 votes, and Nader took away 97,488 votes. So Nader's personal "principles" led directly to the death and misery of literally millions of innocent people. Thus, Ralph Nader should be remembered as one of the most miserable, self-serving snakes in all of U. S. History.
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Tavis and West are now engaged in the very same sort of treachery as Nader, and it may very well lead to the same result, or worse, because you see, this time we’re going to be left with a fascist state. Look around you. The GOP has already turned the state of Michigan into Michighanistan. So what are we gonna do, refuse to vote for Obama in the next election and turn the country over to fascists? It sounds to me like that’s eactly what Tavis and West are advocating.
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That brings me to yet another reason why the activities of Tavis and West send up a red flag for me. Notice that nearly all of their hostility is directed toward Barack Obama. They’re saying little or nothing about the GOP, who are DIRECTLY engaged in undermining the poor and middle class. So I have to ask a very simple question. Why are they focusing all of their energy and resources toward attacking a sleeping sentry, while completely ignoring the invading hordes?
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So something is very wrong here, or at the very least, tactically inept.
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Eric L. Wattree
http://wattree.blogspot.com/
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.