Anthony Gregory:
“A movement finely focused on resisting Washington’s corporatism and bailouts, however, could potentially be much stronger and wider, bringing together at least some of the anti-Obama Right, elements of the anti–Wall Street Left, and libertarians too. The conservatives would have to agree to leave their anti-immigrant and prowar signs at home, and the lefties would have to put aside their demands for national healthcare and prohibitions on gasoline.
Such a movement, involving the better people on both sides, could potentially make a difference, but it would require a far more cooperative spirit than we’re likely to see any time soon. With progressives siding firmly with Obama as he demonizes the tea parties, and conservatives cheering the cops on as they beat the Wall Street occupiers into submission, it would seem that more than economic theory separates these disaffected groups of dissidents. Call it the culture war or partisanship, but whatever it is that divides Americans against one another — distracting them from the real problem in Washington, DC — is also no hero in this story.”
Comment:
I’ll try to round out that excellent passage by Anthony Gregory.
What separates America on this is what always separates America, because it is in the interests of the state to keep the population always divided. And what separates always is race. The rabid left sees the Tea Party as selfish white “haves”. The rabid right sees OccupyWall Street as grasping non-white “have nots”.
Why not? At subliminal levels that is how the two movements have been projected in the media. The state always uses race as a wedge issue, whether stated or unstated, because it works, every time. The media love race because it sells. The mob loves race, because it’s personal and they can relate to it.
Then why do I raise the issue of race..and religion…on this blog?
Because when individuals talk about race freely, voluntarily, in the spirit of reason and civility, it is a vastly different thing from when race is used as a tool of state manipulation.
Individuals talking about race or religion serve the cause of truth, even if imperfectly.
“Drop by bitter drop” knowledge accumulates, refines itself, sees itself mirrored somewhere else, clarifies the sight, sharpens the hearing, and strengthens the heart.
Words spoken have a vibration that depends on the energy that goes into them. This is not New Age nonsense or sentimentality. It is hard fact. Vibration to vibration the soul moves matter across distances. The flutter of a butterfly’s wing sets off an event at the opposite end of the moral universe.
Word unspoken but imbued with the same energy do the same.
Consider it your own inbuilt “twitter” account. Google can’t rank it, squash it, distort it or destroy it. The government can’t demand its tweets or its IP. Your enemies can’t hack it, drown it out, or threaten it with multi-million dollar law suits.
Since you have not spoken, you cannot be refuted. Since you have not acted, you cannot be thwarted.
It speaks anonymously and somewhere angelic forces respond.
The hacker group Anonymous claims to be “legion” (like the demonic forces cast out by Jesus). I have my doubts about Anonymous, as I had about Wikileaks, and the choice of this moniker betrays some intention to provoke fundamentalists and Catholics, who saw in “V for Vendetta” an anti-Christian New Age film.
But vibrational energy allows even an isolated blogger to create his own invisible network, born from the level of truth he is able (or unable) to speak.