When Hate Becomes Hatere (Attire) And Worn With Bush GOP Pride

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

BuzzFlash,

"Oderint dum metuant" - Let them hate, provided they fear. -- Motto of Emperor Tiberius

Yes, it's time for the fashion police, when hate is worn with pride and considered to be the smart, current, in-vogue style, as seen in the Bush GOP Party of No, nothing for no one (all negative) . . . this is more than just the use of freedom of speech, it's our members of Congress refusing to do their jobs for this country . . . refusing to do their jobs after being a part of the destruction by the criminal Bush regime . . . if they can't do their jobs, then make them accountable for the jobs they did during the last eight years.

Their fashion attire is coming very close to being fascism, which is what we actually had under the Bush regime (except this country stays constantly in denial) . . . a totalitarianist dictatorship with extreme nationalism promoted . . . remember before the invasion into the Iraq, along with the media, at many shopping malls around the country, there gathered groups of American citizens waving their flags, and all we heard was the demand for patriotism, what it was to be a patriot, lies that cost lives, and this constant command of patriotism went on for years . . . how proud are those citizens today, I wonder, after 5,000 deaths of US military, thousands of wounded military, a National Guard that should never have been in any military operation, and hundreds of thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions of Iraqi citizens. And, for what? Driven by many US media, and for what?

When hate becomes a regular topic on public TV, radio, and on the news, it's long overdue for a fashion change of our, what some call, social elite, and we Americans have to make that change happen. To fight intolerance, we have to be intolerant. We cannot tolerate hate rhetoric and the violence that it brings into the public realm.

Hate is blind and cowardly. It kills the innocent and the unarmed. After eight years of such violence by the Bush GOP criminal regime, nothing has changed. They area still at it.

When hate is being worn as something to be proud of, the question becomes, "how to bring about drastic change in US society?" The majority of Americans are not haters, so, we are talking about a minority, but a minority that has had eight profitable years of violence against Iraq, Afghanistan, and American citizens.

There are many different types of hate: hater of government and authority: misarchist; hater of learning, wisdom: misophist; hater of science: misomath; hater of reason, enlightenment: misologist . . .   Having always believed in a two-party system where opposite views are discussed openly and respectfully, in order to come to a common solution that would be best for the American people and for this country as a democracy . . . that is what we Americans should be able to expect from our members of Congress. We should have seen opposition to the illegal activities during the eight years of the Bush administration, but, we did not. Why now? Why all of this opposition against the Obama administration?

We understand why the Bush GOP lust for the unprincipled and immoral power that they have held for years, but how do we explain the same vitriol from those supporters on the right of the Bush GOP who claim to be of a moral and superior religious character? People who refuse to recognize the sanctity of all life on this planet? We don't have to understand it, as it is probably impossible as well as unchangeable . . . but we cannot allow it to rule this nation. A nation that has been populated by people from all over the world. What does it mean to a democracy when freedoms are used to take away the freedoms or lives of innocent people because they are different from those who so easily hate?

Usually, when most of us talk about hating this or that, it is a dislike, but hardly one that would cause the life of another . . . and, because we use the word so casually, when people hear the word hate coming from these hate groups around the country, or shock jocks and even politicians . . . they do not take them as seriously as they should. Hate of another because of the color of their skin or the country they are from or because of the religion they practice or because of the politics they believe in . . . all of these reasons or any other ones added to the list are not the beliefs of a democracy and should never be tolerated. They can use the freedoms given to them by a democratic government, however, our leaders in Congress can speak out against such behavior because they are supposed to be leaders and they know better, but their actions towards doing the work of the people, such as the budget the Bush GOP brought out this week, without figures (a perfect example of what we have had from these people since the election), is more than insulting, it tells us that they have no pride in their profession, and that they are still just working for themselves as they did all during the eight years of debt, death, and destruction during the illegal and treasonous Bush GOP regime.

Hazlitt brings out some of this banal use of the word hate when he talks about hating friends, when they grow apart. However, he gets to the heart of the matter when he talks about how hate is used to destroy lives because of strong feelings that blind people through religion, political hate speech, until they become the real evil. And, there is no religion or so-called morality that can clean up that type of evil for humankind where we have to live with it or die from it. Hate talk weakens the mind and strengthens the violence, usually against the innocent and the unarmed.

Wm. Hazlitt - "On The Pleasure Of Hating" (c.1826).

(snip) The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness, and a narrow, jealous, inquisitorial watchfulness over the actions and motives of others. What have the different sects, creeds, doctrines in religion been but so many pretexts set up for men to wrangle, to quarrel, to tear one another in pieces about, like a target as a mark to shoot at? (snip)

Ambrose Bierce in his "Devil's Dictionary," says this:

A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

This is probably the cause of what we are seeing from the Bush GOP members of Congress who are refusing to do their jobs for the people of this nation. Why do I always refer to them as the "Bush GOP?" Because they haven't changed, and will not change, until they fear accountability or responsibility for what they say and do as employees of the people of this democracy. Yes, they work for us, and if I could, I would fire the lot of them today. Why? Because their attitude is seen as an example for many people out in the mother land, and they will mock their dissident behavior. If they can't do their jobs, then they should just do what they are told until we can get members into Congress who will do their jobs. How many years of Republican rule does it take for American citizens to understand that this Republican Party cannot and will not do government for the people.

Again, we all know this is due to the leadership of the Bush Republican Party . . . the Bush GOP, after more than thirty years of government without the fear of any accountability, this country has been drained of resources to the point that we are now owned by China. Jobs are overseas. Salaries are cut and our unemployment is soaring out of sight. Healthcare for the masses is moot and if this Congress has anything to do about it, they will not do anything that actually can be close to what this country needs . . . what we need is what we've seen the governments of Canada, France and Great Britain do for their citizens or any visitors. How proud those people should be of their governments. Too simple. What we Americans don't need is over 800 military bases around the world, two military invasions into two countries, and a military budget that rules where every other dollar goes due to their constantly wanting fancy killing machines when we need healthcare . . . we Americans understand why this is and it has to stop.

We have had a government that would rather kill the citizens of this country in war or in sickness, than to strengthen or to lengthen our lives. Yet, all of those members in Congress, who are making those decisions are overly paid and well protected. Years ago, during the Seventies, citizens were literally "dumped" out of state mental facilities. We've seen people dumped out of hospitals today, dumped in the streets of LA, rather than take care of them. This is not the country that I was born into. However, it is what we have seen in other countries, and we have become, under Republican rule along with weak Democrats, what we used to hate seeing in other nations around the world. If it's true that a country is only as good as it takes care of its people . . . this country has failed miserably.

We have lost much in this country, a sense of community, caring, duty to one's fellow human beings . . . this was something understood years ago, (before Nixon) today it's completely disappeared . . . the Bush GOP's way is every man, woman, and child for themselves . . . if you are out of job, clothing, medicine, food, too damn bad. They couldn't care less, and they don't want anyone else to care either. They don't want US government to take responsibility for the people of this nation. They want us Americans to get used to debt, death, and destruction. We don't have to wonder what our forefathers would have to say today. They would be saying plenty, and it wouldn't be pretty.

This is the bottom folks. It's the same reason we do not have a true oppositional political party that works for the majority of the American people. They have healthcare, and they are all multimillionaires, and none of the Bush GOP has ever served in US military, but were quick to vote for the hell on earth that Bush gave to the citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan, along with some Democrats. These members of the GOP in Congress aren't hurting, yet, they are still getting paid for doing a contemptible, mean, and loathsome job for the American people, and again, along with some Democrats.

We can talk and discuss, but as Hazlitt says in his essay:

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: Hatred alone is immortal.

And, that hate is what the Bush GOP brought onto this country from around the world. Hatred for the killings and torture of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and American citizens will suffer for those crimes from those who hate us from around the world and from our own Bush GOP government, that hates responsibility.

If this country is to change, and I mean this Republican Congress, the American people have to speak out. There has to be accountability in this country, and then, and only then, will we see the Bush GOP work for the American people or as least do what they are told to do for the majority of the citizens of this country.

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. " -- Nelson Mandela, Long walk to Freedom (1994) What Liberals Believe, Edited by William Martin.

The above quote is a reminder that haters, those who want to kill and destroy, have been taught that, which brings us to the unlearned. Mark Twain said:

Education consists of mainly what we have unlearned. -- Notebook.1935.

A majority of us Americans have had to unlearn what we believed was the Republican Party of the Eisenhower years. In reality, it's not the behavior of a political party at all today, it's the Party of One, every member out for themselves. What they can fake, make, or take. I cannot, in good conscience, talk about the Bush GOP in Congress today without leaving an opening for the responsibilities or lack of them, of the Democratic leadership, that went along with the Bush GOP and many Blue Dog Democrats, who still do. They wear the label of the Democratic Party, but they are not the Democratic Party. Many vote GOP, and they are elected by the GOP. They bear responsibility for what the Bush GOP has done because they support them.

We need maturity, as well as morality in US Congress. How can we teach tolerance in this country, when we have members of both Congressional political parties, who are completely intolerant and belligerent towards the needs of the American people, and we have to wonder what do their "oaths of office," have to do with such behavior? Another freedom perhaps? To do whatever, whenever they want to, regardless of the responsibility of their jobs as members of Congress?

Thanks BuzzFlash,

Shirley Smith

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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