Activist Wednesday: Austerity, The Final Solution

Posted by: madamab on: July 13, 2011

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So, I come back from vacation, and what do I find on the political front? Barack Obama, who refused to take Social Security benefit cuts and raising the retirement age off the table during his campaign in 2008, is now “shocking” “progressives” by…proposing Social Security benefit cuts and raising the retirement age to 67. Here, idiots, you had it from the Elephant’s mouth on Snuffleupagous’ show three freaking years ago. Look, moving pictures! That should attract your attention for about 45 seconds.

I’m sure the fact that the proposal to raise the retirement age came from Obama’s mentor, Senator Joe “Party of One” Lieberman, also went right by the morons at MoveOn.org.

News just broke that President Obama is offering to cut Social Security as part of the debt deal they’re working out in Washington right now.¹ And reports say he’s stopped pushing to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for millionaires in these negotiations.²

If both these things are true, it’s an absolute outrage. When asked, 75% of MoveOn members said that if a deal like this were to go through, they’d be less likely to donate to or volunteer for President Obama’s re-election campaign (emphasis mine).

“Less likely to donate to or volunteer?” Whooooo-eeee. I’ll bet ol’ Barack is shaking in his handmade Italian leather! Because first of all, now that corporations can spend as much money as they want to on re-electing Obama, he doesn’t need no stinkin’ donations or volunteering from “progressives.” Second of all, according to these “activists,” here is the “Facebook Status Obama needs to see today.”

 “If Barack Obama cuts Social Security to pay for the Bush tax cuts for millionaires, I won’t ever give his campaign another dime. Repost and reshare this image if you agree.”

Oh, LO Freaking L. Did you notice what is missing from MoveOn.org’s wimpy little statement? A pledge NOT TO VOTE FOR HIM. Ya know, if 75% of 5 million “progressives” who belong to MoveOn.org actually pledged NOT TO VOTE FOR OBAMA, I’ll bet the Prez might actually be forced to pay attention. (I would write “if they pledged to vote third-party” or “if they pledged to protest outside the White House until Congress starts creating some f*cking jobs and stops trying to kill us all with Austerity,” but this is MoveOn.org. Those steps are far too radical for these whingers.) As it is, I’m sure Senor “Fuck You, I’ve Got Mine” is planning to raise more than enough money from Big Oil, Big Gas, Big Corn, Big Health Insurance and Big Pharma to pay desperately broke and unemployed Americans minimum wage to hand out his flyers and make his recruiting calls, thank you very much.

So no, “progressives.” You still haven’t grasped that 2012 is NOT ABOUT YOU and your stupid $25. Great Goddess in the Earth and Sea, what will it take?

These “activists” still don’t have a clue. Yes, there used to be two main Parties in America, but the current occupants of Congress and the White House do not belong to either one. Betty Ford, the proud Republican First Lady who supported both the ERA and full reproductive freedom for women (Goddess rest her, a great lady), would know that Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum are another species entirely. And LBJ would scoff at the idea that Obama is a Democrat. Our current politicos put on the mantles of the old Democrats and Republicans, to disguise their bland insanity with forms we think we recognize; but the truth is, these creatures have no allegiance except to the god of Austerity, a god which propels them to effortless heights of cruelty in pursuit of more, more and more again.

We, human beings of the world, are in the midst of a global crisis, an invasion by Austerians – soulless freaks who appear remarkably humanoid, except for the vacant and hypnotic glitter in their eyes. Obama is only important, in a larger sense, because he is one of them, and is helping them bring Austerity to America. These are desperate times; we are in the midst of World War III, and it’s the Austerians versus the real humans, who have to worry about mundane things like food, work, shelter, health care, and social safety nets. Bah, humbug! cry the Austerians. Slash spending by cutting taxes on the wealthy! Balance the budget by creating unemployment! Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill!

Austerians are the new Nazis, and they are proposing a post-feminist, post-modern, and post-partisan Final Solution.

We know that many figures on the Right, decaying monsters from the Nixon era, professed open admiration for the Nazis. Donald Rumsfeld’s “Shock and Awe,” for example, was modeled on the technique called “Blitzkrieg” by Hitler. Karl Rove embraced the propaganda tactics of Joseph Goebbels. We also know that they, along with wealthy sympathizers like Richard Mellon Scaife, Dick Armey and Rupert Murdoch, established centers of propaganda laughably called “think tanks” to preach the gospel of sociopathy, of caring nothing for anyone but yourself, of freeing society from the constraints of morality and allowing greed and hatred to flourish under the focus-group-friendly words of “freedom” and “liberty.” Never mind that a manicurist in Aruba is freer than a middle-class person in America – because she is automatically entitled to a month’s vacation, and is not dependent on a job for her health care. She is valued because she is human. The Austerians, not being human, only value those who are wealthy enough to buy membership into their group.

What “activists” like the “progressives” at MoveOn.org fail to understand, to our paralysis as a nation, is that the Austerians have infected the Left as well, taking it over with smooth promises of social progress (look! the first Black President!) and peace (look! Obama withdrew troops from Iraq!) and protecting our New Deal, but once in office, being the softer side of Austerity. With a shrug of their shoulders and exhortations to “be adults” and “eat our peas,” these faux populists sway the public into a sense of hopeless acceptance, maundering on and on about the deficit no one cares about, while refusing to address the endless wars, insanely low tax rates and imposed joblessness which caused it. If that fails, they just shout, “Booga booga! Michele Bachmann!” And the “activists” fall for it every single time.

I am not here to tell anyone how to vote. I am not here to blame people for considering voting for Obama. Hell, I’ve thought about it a time or two myself. What I am here to do is to scream, for the thousandth time, “WAKE THE FUCK UP!” to those pathetic remnants of the activist Left which still remain, of which Moveon.Org is one. Because if they don’t get a clue, and soon, those empty-eyed proponents of mass murder will win, and the new Holocaust will begin; an improved and more complete vision which includes victims of all religions, genders, ages and races; but most especially women, the poor, the elderly and children.

This is an open thread. (I promise a Widdershins Lounge, with Aruba pictures, on Friday night.)

Tags: activist wednesday, Austerians, austerity, Nazis, the final solution