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I may be flamed, but I am angry and must speak my voice.
1. more than 1/6 of this country are hopelessly greedy, hopelessly delusional, or hopelessly stupid. Another third simply does not care. Let us acknowledge that the former reside predominantly in two areas: the deep south and the near west+portions of the Midwest. We live, currently, under the tyranny of the greedy, delusional, and stupid. The latter group, the apathetic, are fairly well distributed throughout the country.
2. Let us acknowledge we do not live in a democracy. We live in an oligarchy, one which is adept at manipulating the affects of democracy in order to accumulate and secure their wealth. They needn't use voter fraud, or force, or intimidation to win, because the oligarch will always manipulate those he oppresses so that the oppressed willfully and joyfully gives to the oligarch the tools that sustain his oppression.
3.Education will not save us. Primary and secondary education, especially in southern states, are becoming increasingly ineffective. The wealthy have the best schools and the poor, most in need of education, are given more standardized tests, more religion, few, if any, lessons in critical thinking. Colleges are becoming more and more expensive, becoming more conservative as a conservative legislature threatens to remove the govt research funding from universities that are "too liberal". Our universities have become part of the system that oppresses.
Our academics and intellectuals have failed us. They were too concerned with tenure track jobs, too concerned with making a good impression at the MLA. Although they rage against the system, they are dependent on the system for their own economic well-being, since it is, after all, the system that gives them material to mine and explicate.
4. The fundamental problem with Democrats is idealism. The idealism IS grounded in materiality- economic, social, and political justice. However, Democrats seem to believe that mere ideology and idealism, if presented properly, is enough to effect material reality, when in fact one must manipulate material reality in order to actualize one's ideological position. The Oligarch lacks ideology, or uses ideology in such a way to acquire material wealth.
5. Democrats, by their nature, by the nature of their ideology, are not ruthless, and so they are unwilling to tolerate the short term suffering of others to achieve long term ideological goals. The oligarch has not these compunctions- he will lie, cheat, and destroy the other if it stands in the way of his acquiring more wealth and power, because this is the long term goal of the oligarch.
6. We must be ruthless. The northern nd western states, which are largely progressive and concerned with material reality, could, if they pooled resources, maintain oligarchic control over the Southern and near western states. I suggest a new anaconda plan- we must use the material resources in our respective blue states to squeeze southern states into submission. This is not just for the exercise of brutal power, the power exercised by the right wing oligarch, but instead is a tactic to force a fundamental change in consciousness and ideology through manipulating material reality.
7. The red states need us more than we need them. They need us economically, and their oligarchs need us ideologically. How many of us go south for the beaches, the amusement parks, the various other diversions to be found south of DC? As a former southerner myself, I know much of the red economy is dependent on the blue buck. Our progressive way of life is manipulated by the oligarch to keep his subjects poor, hungry, and blind, because they will always be fighting the other(atheist/commie/terrorist) that threatens them, their way of life, rather than for their own economic self interest.
8.We have the money, the material reality, let us use it. Let us not send or spend another blue dime in a red state, or let us spend in such a way that economically cripples the subject. Give tax breaks to southern factory owners to move factories up here (Flint, Michigan, as i understand, could use a few factories). Supplement whatever organic produce you buy with produce harvested by immense agri-businesses, thus destroying the farmer who prefers starving to "married faggots".
9. Invest. Use the cheap labor of the red subject to further increase your individual wealth, which you can use to further cripple the regions that tyrannize us. I would suggest Wal-Mart. Reject the development of Wal-marts in your areas,while investing heavily in wal-mart, thus forcing them, and giving them the money, to diversify in the south and west. Wal-Mart uses the state to subsidize their poorly paid employees. Wal-mart will eradicate the small business owner. This will further impoverish the Red states.
10. As for Southern Progressives- Leave. Try to secure a job in the northern and far west states. As more professionals and educators move more jobs will open up in the north to accommodate demand in service industries. Many of you will find a home here, you will find those who share something more profound than geography. As our population increases, the significance of red states decrease to the point of irrelevance. By re-apportionment in 2010, we could dominate.
11. And what of resistance to us should we become an oligarchic power? What can they do? force us to go vacation there or buy their products? Their oligarchs will abandon them legislatively, because the oligarchs will always go where the money is, and if it is with us, then they are with us as well. Hopefully, by illuminating how craven and greedy their leaders are, we will have the opportunity, and hopefully the majority, to institute the legislation their leaders refuse to because it would cut into their profit.
12. Is this ruthless? Yes. Is it cruel? Perhaps. But what has idealism yielded? What good is lofty talk of freedom when the oligarch has manipulated a minority to impose tyranny on the majority?And they are a minority, since most Americans do believe in economic parity, separation of church and state, and that inconvenience called the constitution.
Without ruthless tactics we will continue to lose this country until it is irretrievably lost. Until the subject of the oligarch, blinded by God, gays, and guns, is forced to suffer true economic hardship, they will never have the change in consciousness necessary to begin advocating and fighting for economic justice.
Always remember: the oligarchy has no qualms about manipulating the oppressed to destroy us, so why should we have qualms about manipulating them to preserve ourselves and, ultimately,free them?
13. I'll be honest- I will work to make this happen. If it doesn't, then I will leave, because this country is lost.
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