Reply #121: I initially thought it was just old fart Vidal, grouchy with gout, talking off the top his head [View All]

and not giving a damn any more what he says. He IS a leftist--a real one. His creds are pretty good. But his remarks on John and Robert Kennedy were so extreme (in the same interview) and so dismissive that I figured maybe he's given up on American democracy? Something like that.

However, now that I've thought it over, maybe it's a good thing to threaten this putridly corrupt political establishment with "Black Riots." Something to scare them good. They've been bad, and I mean really bad. Great evil bad. War bad. Anti-democratic bad. Rigged voting machines (supported by both party's leaderships) bad. Massive corporate looting bad. Oil gouging bad. Outsourcing all the jobs and manufacturing bad. Patriot Act bad. Bad, bad, BAD bad. They need to be shaken up--real bad! So Vidal is muttering to himself, 'what do these fuckwad war profiteers fear the most?' He's probably wrong that it's "Black Riots." They likely are far more afraid of all of us, black and white together, dumping their rigged voting machines into 'Boston Harbor' - but leftist intellectuals like Vidal--across the board, all of them--don't think of the practical mechanisms of democracy, and have raised not one word of objection to the disenfranchisement of the American people with "trade secret," Bushite-corporate controlled vote 'counting.' I keep wondering why. It's so obvious to me that that IS the fascist coup. But, anyway, so he's eating his oatmeal and musing about the "Black Riots" after the assassination of Martin Luther King, and thinking, "Ha! They wouldn't dare! They wouldn't DARE steal the election from a black presidential candidate, because blacks have been known to riot at that kind of fuckwad outrage."

I don't think he's a racist. I think he was just thinking, 'what could stop this criminal establishment? what would give them pause?'

And he has a point--although, as I said, I think they fear ALL OF US now, not just blacks, who have taken the worst hit of Reagan-Bush induced poverty. The rigged voting machines tell me that they fear American VOTERS, in general--the majority--potentially the most progressive force on earth, as to reining in the global corporate predators who are harming everyone. They have a lot of stuff in place now to "handle" riots--black riots, food riots, anti-war riots, little old ladies in wheelchairs who have lost their Social Security and Medicare riots. They have all kinds of new weapons and jails ready. They don't fear riots. They fear TRANSPARENT VOTE COUNTING. (I mean, look at how transparent vote counting is playing out all over South America--with one leftist government after another getting elected--most recently in Paraguay, of all places. In South America, transparent vote counting IS the Revolution!)

But Vidal may be stuck in the past, as old people sometimes are. He's living back to 1965, when the Watts Uprising (riot) spawned LBJ's "war on poverty," and 1968, when M.L. King was murdered, and the cities erupted in flames (followed by enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, even by the Nixon regime!). Blacks were disenfranchised, and massively discriminated against--in jobs, in education, in every way. That's why they rioted. They had no other option as to being heard. Now we are ALL suffering these things. We are ALL disenfranchised. We are ALL suffering discrimination in favor of cheap Asian labor. And it is ALL OF US that the fascists and war profiteers fear.

The reason I didn't comment on this before is that I think Vidal's remark--and this whole race/sex "bitterness" thing being stoked by the global corporate predator 'news'--is irrelevant to most Americans. And we shouldn't feed it. It is a corporate narrative, not OUR narrative. It is mostly not real.