Miriam,
It looks like we have a standoff. I am convinced that Class
Distinction is at the root of our racism. But whether it is or not,
racism is still alive and going strong in America today. But here is
where I see it. Racism was built into the new Constitution. That
document was written by the Ruling Class of the day. Blacks, Indians,
Women, and most Working Class people were not included among those
permitted to vote. For this reason I claim that this new government
was an Oligarchy. The families of those privileged people continue to
be members of the present Ruling Class. Even though we have modified
the constitution by amending it to include those people originally
excluded. But the Ruling Class and those people who benefit from
holding hands with the Ruling Class, have taken measures to continue
holding control. Look at today's voter restrictions and the
manipulation of election ballots, and Gerrymandering. All of that
activity is directly a result of the Ruling Classes effort to hold
onto their control.
While I understand what FDR faced back in the 30's and 40's, and
certainly he could not have accomplished any social improvements
without securing the votes, which meant bringing on board the White
Racists(the Dixicrats) and allowing them to continue to persecute
Blacks and other minorities such as Jews and Indians.
In fact, I am not criticizing Roosevelt for doing what he felt was
necessary to secure what changes he did accomplish. But as we can see
through the ensuing 80 plus years, embracing the Dixicrats has enabled
racists to continue with their oppression of non white Americans.
But I don't find that Roosevelt believed that all Americans were equal
under the Law. Look at his method of handling the fear of American
Citizens of Japanese parentage.
Did he order Americans to include their Japanese fellow Americans when
defending our shores?
Did he even once send troops into the Solid South in order to protect
our Black Citizens? Roosevelt, for all the good he did, continued to
be a Citizen in Good Standing in the American Oligarchy. He may have
had compassion for the plight of those less fortunate than himself,
but his first order of business was to save the Ruling Class from a
pending revolution.
Today we still fight to include Black Americans, Spanish Americans,
and Jewish Americans as full Citizens. And women are barely accepted,
with only a few exceptions, at the top.
Of course, when the Democrats did put pressure on the Dixicrats, they
took their marbles and became Republicans. For the most part these
New Republicans make up the Solid Right Wing Block.
Although we are in denial, the United States is a Class Society. We
think that just because a few individuals rise up financially, that
moving into the Ruling Class is easy? In order to become a new
member, a person must first announce that they support the beliefs of
the Ruling Class. If they don't, it makes no difference how many
billions they gather, they are not accepted. Look at our friendly
Bill Gates. Raised in an Upper Middle Class home, he came to embrace
the values of the Ruling Class, and has been embraced. Does this mean
that Bill Gates doesn't support "good works"? Of course he does,
through the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation. And this is true of
the foundations of other Billionaires. The question is, are their
good works improving the lives of working class Americans? Or are
their good works actually supporting their Ruling Class values? Bill
Gates, a man who never attended public elementary or high schools,
strongly promotes privatizing public education. Even if most
Americans support better funding of public education, Donald Trump
demonstrated his own membership in the Ruling Class by who he selected
to be his Secretary of Education.
I almost fall on the floor with laughter when the Talking Heads begin
pondering as to whether or not Donald Trump will be impeached. Forget
it. Just so long as Donald Trump helps smooth the way to the National
Treasury, these billionaire profiteers will have his back...regardless
of what they might say to his face.
Talk is cheap. And these people know how to talk. But I can no
longer hear what they're saying because it has not changed in my
lifetime. I choose to listen to people who have the working classes
needs, rather than money as their bottom line. People who make sense.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/30/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, if we transport ourselves back to the 1930's, there was a very strong
wing of the Democratic party called the Dixicrats and they had support, a
lot of it, from white Southerners. Now you can repeat again how white
Southerners were manipulated into thinking as they did by the ruling class,
and that may or may not be true. After all, we have seen the human
propensity to mistrust those who are different. But however the white
southerners became what they were, they had influence in the Democratic
Party. And there were the Republicans who were strongly opposed to all of
FDR's economic measures. His measures meant spending huge amounts of
government money to employ people. So, given the country as it existed, he
did what he thought he needed to do in order to get them instituted. I'll
add that even within his administration, there were many people who didn't
feel that black people should benefit from many of the demonstration
projects or other programs. They believed that since black people were
accustomed to privation and white people were not, the help should go to the
white people. I don't think that racism can be explained away by class
theory.
Miriam
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Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 10:28 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: more from the Eleanor Roosevelt book
Miriam,
Yes, it's interesting. But rather than talk about what the Nazis thought
about FDR, I'd rather talk about why so many of his initial good ideas never
came to be. One of the things I have had to unlearn is that our two party
system, along with the division of power between Judicial, Congress and the
President, makes certain that we continue to be free, and do not wander down
a wrong road, ending in Tyranny.
What I now think is that compromise works to the advantage of the Ruling
Class. As we've seen, the Ruling Class can give a little when it needs to,
and can take it back when the opportunity is right.
During our nation's history, we've seen good times and we've seen bad times.
That is, "We" if we're among the Working Class. The members of the
Oligarchy, the Elite Ruling Class, seldom have "bad times".
I know I had some other profound thoughts to splatter across the page, but
after a break, I have no idea what they were. Our son and his partner left
us(me) some Maple Nut Ice-Cream when they headed home.
James had plans to gobble it down on his way out, but Amy slapped his hand
and said, "naughty, naughty. Leave some for your Dear Old Dad."
What a girl! So I am headed for the freezer and then to watch Jeopardy.
Good night!
Carl Jarvis
On 5/29/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here's a tidbit that I just heard on The Tel Aviv Review. This came
from an interview with a historian from, Harvard or Yale, can't
remember which, who has just completed a book about the American
concepts which the Nazis used in building their system for handling
citizens and those people who were unworthy of citizenship. Hitler and
his associates were very positively impressed with FDR because they
saw him as a strong leader who could become an effective dictator if
the situation permitted. They liked some of the federal programs that
were set up like the NRA because these programs were set up without
congressional approval and because they used effective propaganda to
convince the public to support them. Interesting, huh?
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 6:47 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: more from the Eleanor Roosevelt book
William Randolph Hearst employed a fellow by the name of Francis James
Westbrook Pegler, who wrote under the name of Westbrook
Pegler(pronounced
Peggler) As the years passed, Pegler began to attack FDR and Eleanor
Roosevelt. I recall reading hateful articles by Pegler long after FDR
was dead.
" He denounced the civil rights movement and in the early 1960s wrote
for the John Birch Society, until he was invited to leave because of
his extreme views."(from Wikipedia)
In 1962 Pegler lost his contract with King Features Syndicate(owned by
Hearst), because of his attacks on Hearst Executives.
Westbrook Pegler was my "Go To Guy" anytime someone told me that the
American Press was Liberal.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/29/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The original plan was for universal social security. Everyone at
birth would be enrolled in the plan. There would be a federal
government contribution with funds coming from a sales tax. Henry
Morganthal, (secretary of the
treasury) and the Southern senators disagreed. They proposed a system
based only on contributions from employers and employees that would
omit poor black people. This funding system differed from all the
European social security systems. Also, FDR initially proposed
universal health care insurance which he quickly dropped under
pressure. 65 senators were in favor of the US joining the World
Court until Hearst propagandized against the plan in his papers and
told citizens to send telegrams to their senators and representatives
opposing it on the basis that the US would be giving up its
sovereignty.
Miriam
