SUPERMAN ARRIVES (again): Is It "TOO LATE"??

"Dictatorship"  Arrives in Wisconsin ??

 

My algebra teacher was from Beloit (in 1956).  She was special, and what she taught us about Wisconsin was very different from we see in the video of the State Legislature that appeared yesterday.

 

This is beyond bullying -- it is outright dictatorship by a legislative majority.   http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-mct-bc-wisconsin-abortion-adv13-20130612,0,5131271.storymajority   Rachel Maddow showed the clip last night.  It should bring chills to anyone who believes that some form of Democracy makes the best kind of government. Our democratic form of government may be dying slowly in the State Houses around this country.  Could this be the time for a Malignant Right version of "Superman"?

 

The current issue of TIME tells us to expect Superman's return to theaters this summer.  Aren't  we sufficiently weary, and somewhat afraid, of superheroes "appearing in theaters" in this country?

 

Superman was invented by a young Jewish immigrant in 1933.  Struggling to "fit in", at a time when Jews were discriminated against at a level similar to that of "Negroes"  (Jews lived on our side of the tracks in Missouri when I was a child -- and came out in public only after sundown);  it is understandable why someone might long for such a creature.

 

1933: a year when FDR took office and, over the next 12 years transformed the planet by out-witting and out-fighting dictators on both the political Right and Left; a year when this nation reached its deepest "scarcity" due to the Great Depression; the year when Adolf Hitler assumed power in Germany and put an end to its democratic form of government; and a year when a child, whose name I was given at birth, was murdered in Sioux City, Iowa.  The Right Wing has worked diligently to destroy everything FDR did to create a Middle Class in this country.

 

The off-year (not divisible by 4) elections are when we are most vulnerable; because factions and regions take advantage of the lack of a Presidential candidate on the ballot.  2014 could be the year when the Malignant Right achieves what it failed to get in the 2012 election?  "Sequestration" is doing the "job" of insuring a climate of "scarcity" for them.  Don't let 2014 be the "end of the world" for Democracy!

 

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