Re: Change
- From: Islander <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:25:16 -0700
Rita wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:29:46 -0700, Islander <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
While I have been primarily following the Democratic primary and the imperative of change on which the Democrats are focusing, I've also been noting that there is a strident and increasing demand for change from the right.
An old friend who is ultra conservative often sends me material that seems to be increasingly of an alarmist nature. For example, in this morning's mail, his latest missive concluded with the statement, "Something has to change in this country -- and soon!"
Unfortunately, the two ends of the political spectrum are speaking about very different kinds of change! The right is as disgusted with the Bush administration as the left and dislike McCain even more. But, for very different reasons. They feel that Bush and McCain have moved way too far to the left!
The particular email that prompted this post was a rant about urine tests. The author was required to take urine tests by his employer. He didn't object to that, but complained that welfare recipients who received the tax money that he paid did not have to pass urine tests. He proceeded to characterize them as "...sitting on their ASS, doing drugs, while I work."
Another email this morning, supposedly citing a decorated Marine general, was a rant against Islam.
Instead of this political campaign bringing us together, I find an increasing division in our political views that is very disturbing. There are some very bitter people out there. The bad economy is making this worse as assigning blame for their economic problems aggravates the problem.
Among those with whom I correspond regularly, I see increasing evidence that "...they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
However the attribution of all our economic problems to illegal
immigration seems to have lessened considerably. Illegal immigrants
have served as the scapegoat for many of the nation's ills.
The posters in this group who once posted diatribes against illegals
almost on a daily basis seem to have lost their "momentum". I
admit I don't understand this. They seem to be directing all their
attention to Obama.
Perhaps the widespread cultural animus against Mexicans has shifted
now that these folks are faced with the possibility of a black
President. Or perhaps events such as the subprime mortgage crisis
have made it clear that economic problems were fomented and hatched
on Wall Street, not in lines of illegals looking for a day's work.
Jeremiah Wright attempted to address the issue and it is a shame that this part of his address at the National Press Club got little coverage. There is continuing discrimination against anyone who is "different." While McCain has moved somewhat to the right on this issue, his policy is still essentially the same as Bush's. This leaves the Republicans with no one (Like Tancredo, for example) to rant about the influx of immigrants. Even Lou Dobbs has toned down his rhetoric.
I guess that there is only so much discrimination to go around!
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