The Culture War

There has been a class war raging in America since the Reagan administration and its mostly Republican congress passed the anti-worker, pro-millionaire capital gains tax cut on the stupid lie that cutting rich people’s taxes helps the economy. That tax was already slanted against workers and for the very rich, as capital gains should be taxed as income, every year. Your capital gains are gains in the worth of your investments. A form of income that rather than being taxed as income, is levied a lower tax that congress lowered even farther. It sent Wall Street into a feeding frenzy of hostile corporate takeovers that cost us normal people our hours worked, or even our jobs. Thriving businesses were bought, dismantled, and the parts sold for obscene profits while its workforce was laid off.
Then a decade later a very rich demagogue named Ross Perot got into politics in the 1990s. In his two failed attempts at buying the White House, he came up with the idea of the “culture war,” saying that the radical left was out to pollute America’s culture with homosexuality and multiculturalism. The aim was to turn the ninety nine percent of us who weren’t born into great wealth against each other so that they, the fewer than one percent, could steal what it hadn’t already stolen.
It didn’t work. His timing, coming in the decade of Rodney King, Janet Reno and the FBI, the Watts riots, the ends of recession, inflation, and AFDC (Welfare), and more, was against the rich demagogue.
Then after being chosen by the Supreme Court after losing the popular vote, and the electoral college being a tossup thanks to Florida’s incredibly stupid ballot design, two oil men, George Bush and Dick Cheney spent the next eight years as president and vice president enriching themselves at America’s cost and ignoring danger to America. Before Bush’s first year was over we were attacked, so he attacked Afghanistan, who had defeated the USSR. Then he started a war of vengeance against Iraq on the lie that there were “weapons of mass destruction” because its leader had tried to kill his dad.
There weren’t.
The oil men put most of their efforts into jacking up the price of oil; gasoline was a buck five here when they took office. The congress relaxed banking regulations. Gasoline kept rising until at five times the cost it was when the oil men were elected, over five bucks a gallon, people were forced to choose between gasoline to get to work, or paying the mortgage. On top of this was a banking scandal, a scam perpetrated by big banks that was completely ignored by the press, although state attorneys general took notice.
The economy crashed, and crashed hard. We almost went into another Great Depression. When President Bush’s second term finished, America was sick of Republican greed, avarice, and uncaring for the American people and voted in a Democratic congress and president.
President Obama was Black. More than half of White Americans are very racist, especially those who swear that they aren’t, and this gave a rich and racist fraudster his chance, lying shamelessly that Obama wasn’t a US citizen, despite being born in Hawaii after it became a state, to a Kansas woman.
The lying demagogue fraudster rekindled Perot’s tired old “culture war” and the 1930s American Nazi slogan “America First”. Born into great wealth, he is a member of “The Heritage Society,” those who have inherited great wealth and have a club called “The Heritage Foundation” promoting the growth of the bank accounts of those who have far too much at the cost to those who have far too little.
They, the very rich, wish to use the bogus “culture war” to pit the ninety nine percent of us against each other so we won’t notice their class war against us. How? Easy, they own big business. They own the mass media. All it takes is to unleash stupid shit like a transgendered person (sex unknown) as the spokesthing for rednecks’ favorite beer. Then take away Aunt Jemima. Then blame the “woke” or “liberals”. Why? To get the 99% at each others’ throats!
And you fools all fell for it! I’m not queer but tell me, why should I treat a queer any different than I treat anybody else? Why should I care? I’m not going to hell because of his sins!
Now, a thing that affects society affects all in the society. Depriving anyone of rights is against the rights of all; we are all human. Yes, we have different shapes, weights, sizes, heights, shades of brown from almost black to almost white, but as different as we are, we are all the same.
Racism and xenophobia, like the “culture war,” are each another weapon of the rich against the normal in their class war.
We, the people, are getting our asses kicked. We will continue to lose until we WAKE UP (there’s a reason they hate “woke”) and realize the evil that is happening to us, that it’s not that Black guy or that foreigner or that queer that threatens you and our culture, it’s that evil rich billionaire who is CEO of “your” company.
Call me “woke,” I call you “fool.” I’d rather be aware than foolish.