Saturday, April 30, 2011
Losing traction
Charles Blow looks at the Donald's birtherism and its underlying racism as part of the smoke and mirrors used by the right wing power structure to hide its march toward oligarchy in our country.
Donald Trump is still playing to suspicions of President Obama. And it’s no longer theoretical. It’s theological. For the detractors, truth is no longer dependent on proof because it’s rooted in faith: faith that American exceptionalism was never truly meant to cover hyphenated Americans; faith in 400 years of cemented assumptions about the character and capacity of the American Negro; and faith that if the president doesn’t hew to those assumptions then he must be alien by both birth and faith.So the big money needs to separate people who have a common interest so they don't make common cause against their true enemy. Whether they use racism, misogyny, anti-unionism or what have you, they will keep you from working for your best interests in favor of your slaving for theirs.
This is how the moneyed interests — of whom Trump is one — want it. That is how sleight of hand works: distract and deceive. They need this distraction now more than ever because the right’s flimsy fiscal argument — that if we allow fat cats to gorge, crumbs will surely fall — is losing traction...
It all loses traction as more Americans begin to see the far right for what it truly is: a gang of bandits willing to sacrifice the poor and working classes to further extend the American aristocracy — shadowy figures who creep through the night, shaking every sock for every nickel and scraping their silver spoons across the bottom of every pot.
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