DESTROY THE GOVERNMENT TO SAVE IT: TAKE THE TEST

For lack of a more descriptive term, I will use the expression the Vietnam Syndrome. I to use the expression “start from a blank slate” but people have given that a more general meaning related to the way personalities develop. The idea is simple; to void putting up with all the difficulties of correcting what people perceive as being wrong with either a physical or a cultural situation, it is easiest to start from zero. For this minority, what is right or wrong does not have to have anything to do with reality. As an example, soldiers and marines would repeatedly enter a village in Vietnam looking for the “enemy” but would find no one or only women and children.  If they did find a male, they would search his hut until they found something suspicious—even the slightest thing—and then execute the individual. The connection between the person’s political affiliation and the evidence was usually so weak that the subsequent amounted to murder. This approach escalated to the village level with the justification being that “we” had to “destroy the village to save it”; we had to kill people to save them. For me, this mantra became the “Vietnam Syndrome”.

In Washington D.C., this past week we saw the equivalent of the “Vietnam Syndrome” tragically played out in the United States Congress. The Tea Party faction of the Republican Party members of the House of Representatives does not see the government of the United States as being capable of being on what they define as the right track. They seem to feel that they cannot fashion it into what they think is right, therefore they are willing to destroy it. They are will to “destroy the government to save it”. It is the easiest thing to do. If you endorse the concept of “destroying a village to save it”, you endorse what the Tea Party is doing in Washington. Unfortunately, many of you seem to think that way.

If you are willing to do that, you should be able to tell me what you want the government to be. This is where I say the idea that the Tea Party concept is right defies logic. To explain, I will continue with the Vietnam Village analogy; they want the people in that village to become totally submissive to the superior force because it obviously is the superior force. The same lesson Travon Martin was not willing to learn, the same lesson the American people do not want to accept. This begs the question; “What is the superior force?”

The Supreme Court of the Untied States has recently defined what that superior force is; it is money. It makes absolutely no sense that the Conservatives in the Republican Party at the urging of Tea Party member want to suppress the vote to prevent voter fraud when every study ever done proves beyond reasonable doubt that there is no voter fraud.  The Governor of Florida imposes drug testing on anyone who applies for welfare of any kind when studies have proved repeatedly that drug use among welfare recipient is near zero. They accuse welfare recipients of fraud and cheating, the Ronald Reagan concept of “Welfare Annie”, when everyone knows that welfare cheating is below 1%—almost not existent. Therefore, these Tea Party claims are demonstrable false so why do conservatives believe them.

Belief in blatantly false declarations does not stop at the waters edge. Clearly Obama policies has accomplished great thing in the war torn Middle East: Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and now Iran. His foreign policy has been an outstanding success. The world is finally seeing that the Untied States is no longer building empires. That American Business can compete in a free enterprise system without negotiating at the end of an American gun. Third world respect for America is building rapidly from the lows described in John Perkins, Confession of an Economic Hit Man (2004). It is building in spite of McCain’s bomb-bomb-policy.

Every conservative I have ever known believes these false statements, not just one or two people, but absolutely every one of them. These are not stupid people. If I tell them the earth is flat, they know better. They apply solid logic to their everyday lives but do not seem able to apply the same logic to their politics. The consequence is that they are the ones who elected the Tea Party to congress but we all have to suffer. It is time for the American people take to the streets to reject the Tea Parties Vietnam Syndrome approach just as they took to the streets over the failed logic of Vietnam. OK, that is a little extreme, but at least ask yourself if you believe there is voter fraud, that welfare people are on drugs, or all welfare people cheat the government. Your answers to this little test may tell you something you do not realize about yourself.

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