Civil War In Libya: Is America Next? Good Grief! America's Greedy And Selfish Big-box
16 March 2011By
Jane Stillwater
American right-wing radio talk-show hosts have been
spewing hate into our airwaves for over 20 years now.
First came the attacks on "FemiNazis". And now it's
all about attacking liberals, Social Security, trade
unions, Democrats, Muslims, Mexican-Americans,
homosexuals, women's reproductive rights,
African-Americans, government services, anyone who
thinks that banks, Wall Street and semi-automatic
weapons should be regulated, poor people, old people,
sick people, children, teachers, etc.
Good grief!
Is there anyone at all left in the American middle and
working classes that haters on talk-radio haven't
attacked recently? Probably not.
However, please be aware that generating so much hate
can be like opening a very deadly Pandora's box -- and
that we all need to watch out. Look what just happened
in Libya when the Pandora's box of hate was opened up
there. Libyans began slaughtering Libyans right and
left. How much hate needs to be generated in order to
turn countryman against countryman like that? A lot.
I'm not saying that Americans now hate other Americans
as much as Libyans hate other Libyans. But we are
currently driving in that direction far too fast.
Perhaps it is time to put on the brakes before we too
speed over that same cliff.
Right now, Libya is a bloody mess due to hate -- just
like what happened in Yugoslavia and Iraq, and also
what happened during the American Civil War of
1860-1865. Yet despite these in-your-face examples,
Americans still don't seem to realize that flirting
with hate is like playing with fire. Hate can be just
as destructive as the recent devastating tsunami in
Japan -- only it is a deadly emotional tsunami
instead, turning neighbor against neighbor, brother
against brother, friend against friend, just like it
did at Bull Run, Manassas, Shiloh, New Orleans,
Murfreesboro, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg,
Knoxville, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Atlanta,
Savannah, Richmond, Washington and Appomattox.
A bloody and hateful civil war has happened in America
before -- and it could happen here again if we keep
allowing ourselves the gluttonous indulgence of hate.
And if another civil war does happen here, will it be
as bloody as the ones in Kosovo or Baghdad or Tripoli
-- or Gettysburg?
Do we really want civil war to break out in America
again like it did at Ft. Sumter? No! But if it does
happen again here, what exactly would this second
American civil war be called? How about "The great
bloody Limbaugh Beck Palin Fox-News Arizona Wisconsin
anti-working-class anti-homosexual anti-Muslim
anti-Mexican anti-Black anti-union anti-liberal
anti-female pro-corporatist pro-oligarch Civil War"?
Nah. Too many words. How about simply "The Fools' and
Bigots' Civil War sponsored by Rich People." Yeah that
sounds better.
PS: Peace Pilgrim is still my idol -- remember her?
She was an elderly lady who walked over 25,000 miles
on foot all across America in the 1950s, advocating
peace wherever she went. I've always wanted to do that
too -- except that I have bad knees and can't walk
more than a few blocks at a time without pain. But
maybe I could still do it anyway, perhaps in a golf
cart? Would that count?
PPS: I gotta confess that even I have been doing a lot
of hatin' lately -- hatin' on America's greedy and
selfish big-box banks http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2011/03/wells-fargos-illegal-overdraft.html.
Why anyone in their right mind would invest their
money (and their trust) in greedy mega-banks that are
"too big to fail" (yet that feel no remorse when they
cause US to fail) is way beyond me -- when there are
so many healthy and honest local credit unions out
there to bank with instead.
So. Let's all take our money out of CitiBank, Wells
Fargo, Bank of America, Chase and all those other
player banks who inflicted us with the great American
housing disaster, and deposit our money in Berkeley's
wonderful Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union
instead http://www.coopfcu.org./ASP/home.asp
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