"WORK HARD" and play by "THE RULES"

The Common Thread??

Alas! Maybe we've found the common thread that connects Romney and the Repoobs with Obama and the hapless Democrats.  Even the Dark Knight Shooter, it appears from media reports, was a believer; before he wasn't.

Romney and his wife, Ann, espouse the belief that they and their supporters obey the "rules"; and those Ann called "you people", don't. 

What "Rules"?  Who makes the "Rules?  The answer to these questions depend on how far back you look into our history.  The common path some of us use for such a search is one marked "Community", while others follow a path marked "Individual".  This schizophrenic view of the history of the United States has led to the pathetic state of our politics today.  Overlay this search with our peculiar view of race and class and our loathesome attitudes toward poor people on this planet who do not have white skins, and you can solve the riddle of our curious pathologies of violence, inequity, and now, the destruction of access to opportunity for escaping the conditions of birth.  Before 1980, most of our corporations followed the "community" path.

Romney takes the Reagan ideas disparaging "community" to extreme levels; giving all credit to the "winners" -- those who wind up with a pile of cash; no matter the means -- and blame the "losers" -- everybody else.  We've always had  Theory X versus Theory Y, and the "Libertarians" who follow the extreme and narrow views of Ayn Rand;  but Romney represents something new.  Behind the Romney door lurk the people who knowingly and willingly pushed the global capitalist system to destruction.  They are served in politics by those who denigrate "compromise" and exhibit a willingness to destroy the country to get their way.  This dictatorial posture is something new within our political party structure.

We're all guilty.  We cheerfully credit the quarterback while ignoring the role of the team.  We worship people like Gates and Jobs while ignoring the government-paid, and militarily-produced technologies that they took from the stages of successful demonstration to final commercial products.

The millions of bright people, the tax-payers, along with our more sane, less craven, and more insightful politicians of our recent past, are ignored.

Because the president we have, who showed extreme gifts and skill along with the courage of politicians of old, patched up the wreckage of 2008; because he does not come in white skin and embraces the "community credit" approach, the Repoobs aresucceeding in  advancing their cause.  They blame Obama for their own dastardly deeds, and work to kill the economy in order to discredit him.  Any fool knows that presidents don't create jobs???  They are "hedging" their bets that the voters are too stupid to know, understand, or care.

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