Left's achievements, Right's parasitism
Ilya Shambat
accomplishments. From winning the First and Second World War under
Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, to achievements of American
science, to universal education and civil rights, to the computer
industry that was the true reason for America's 1980s and 1990s
prosperity, it was the Democrats and even the Greens that led the way.
The science from which has come every product that businesses sell on
the market, the Interstate that allows businesses to reach
theircustomers all around the country, education that makes people
employable, and the Internet that has made possible the
computerization and vast gain in business efficiency, are all
government projects. As for computer industry, based as it is on
personal computer designed by a hippie, it is a solid Democratic
endeavor, based in solid Democratic Bay Area, Washington State and
Democratic-voting parts of DC Metropolitan Area, with Democrats
forming both the bulkof its membership and its rank and file.
The things for which Republicans like to take credit, from America's
military victories to its prosperity, are therefore owed much more
rightfully to the Democrats. This is especially the case in recent
decades. The Democratic Clinton administration gave America its
greatest period of peace and prosperity, the only balanced budget in
40 years, a drastic drop in violent crime, and an overhaul of the
government to make it efficient and user-friendly. The Republican Bush
administration gave America five trillion dollars of debt, no new
jobs, collapsing family incomes, and a horrendous economic crisis at
its end.
Meanwhile the Republican entities, both in industry and in politics,
are for the most part parasitical. One major Republican entity is the
Texas Oil - an industry that burns with no sight for the future a
resource that would be put to much better use to create plastics and
pharmaceuticals, and whose burning adds hugely to the melting of
glaciers, the acidification of oceans, the flooding of entire
countries, and disastrous climatic events that have horrendous
economic and human costs - when energy and water needs of humanity can
be met much cheaper, much better, much more efficiently, and much more
unobtrusively, through a process that takes in only the energy of the
sun and the ocean water and produces only clean energy and clean water
at the end. This entity has led for three decades the denial of fact,
burning the world for its own short-sighted gain while misrepresenting
everything to people and leading them to believe itself to be their
ally and the people who knew what was going on to be their enemy.
Another parasitical Republican entity is the beef industry. America's
farmland, with current technologies, could feed 2 billion people.
Instead most of this land is used to raise cattle feed, so that
instead of feeding 2 billion it feeds 300 million. The beef subsidies
make beef cheaper than the cost it took to produce it, resulting in
its gross overconsumption and the sickening of population, from little
children to late adult. Instead of reaping huge economic benefit from
selling food abroad and huge political benefit from giving it away in
famines, America reaps diabetes, child obesity, and debt. These
government-subsidized beef farmers then become militantly anti-
government, finding it outrageous that they should pay taxes when it
is the taxpayer's money that subsidizes their products so that they
can be sold for a fraction of the cost it takes to make them.
Another parasitical Republican entity is Christian Right. These are
the people who have decided that scientists and journalists are liars
and sinners, and they in claiming such things are not. They have
consistently aggressively denied fact and reality and put forth
ridiculous explanations - explanations such as that AIDS is God's way
of controlling the homosexual population and that 9-11 happened
because God took away his protective umbrella over America due to
liberals and feminists in the country. This entity is not only
teaching people that there will be an Armageddon in our lifetime, but
is teaching them to anticipate it, to hope for it, and to work to
bring it about while sabotaging any effort directed toward creating a
long-term sustainable future for America and for humankind. This is an
entity of mass-scale conmanship and deception, and it gains from as
much as it demands through its anti-educational policies the lowering
of intelligence of America's population even as it is working day and
night to sabotage their future and that of their children while
claiming ridiculously to represent family values, responsibility and
American patriotism.
Another parasitical Republican entity is the anti-government truckers
who use government-built, government-maintained Interstate system to
deliver products made by anti-government government-subsidized farmers
to big liberal cities that are their markets. These people do not want
to pay tax either, when it is again taxpayer money that has created
the infrastructure that they use daily to do business and taxpayer
money again that is being used to keep it in operating condition.
Finally we see, on the government Internet of all places, militias and
right-wing groups that hategovernment and want it out of the picture
so that the people in the communities in which they operate have no
protection against them. These entities want to be free of
government's constitutional protections of people's rights in order
that they have absolute power over the communities in which they
operate and get away with the grossest abuses against the people in
these communities. While many of these entities describe themselves as
freedom fighters, in fact they are totalitarians who want absolute
power over communities in which they live, including the absolute
power to murder, rape, injure, batter, or destroy the lives of anyone
they find inconvenient, and the absolute power to force everyone else
into their party line and destroy them should they disagree.
It is time that American Right stop getting away with conmanship and
deception, and that such things be seen for what they are. And to the
American Right claiming such things as that they are "real America" or
that America is "their country," to respond, "You are not America. You
are not the majority of America. And you are not its better part
either." When the rest of the world looks at America, it's not Omaha
or Waco that they know and look up to. It is New York, San Francisco
or Los Angeles. It is these places that have given America its
greatest accomplishments, and it is these places that deserve to speak
for America and to take credit therefor.