My last post was Me being PO’ed.
I don’t think of Republicans as being dangerously racist in the Ku Klux Klan fashion. I don’t think of them as calling Mexicans who cross over into the U.S. Greasers. Oh no. They have recently been hearing the catch phrase “rule of law” and taken that to heart. Its has led them to crowd our prisons with maximum sentences for drug law offenses which has had a number of unfortunate consequences. It takes useful people at an early age and instead of turning them into good cogs in the capitalist system to build the economy it turns them into an expense that drains it. Oh, and it also creates a new lobby, the prison lobby, to keep the prisons in place.
President Obama is wisely attempting to walk this law enforcement sink hold back.
The reason I took such grim pleasure in blaming Republicans for creating a permanant hidden class of illegal migrants was probably in part prompted by my rereading the speech I gave twenty-one years ago to a Republican gathering that attempted to boo me off the stage. That speech was remarkable prescient. It describes a small minded Republican Party that was busily becoming smaller minded. It enjoyed a two decade long surge even as it purged the kind of moderate folks who could have tempered Prision and Immigration policy and worked to make things more practical. Ditto Health Care costs, foreign interventionsism, gun rights and a host of other issues.
When I was fighting the Red Plan I stopped posting that was criticial of the GOP. I needed to build a coalition in Duluth and didn’t want to unnecessarily alienate potential allies. Now I don’t care about that. Being conciliatory will only risk getting me elected and that would impinge on my current freedom to say whatever strikes my mind as worth saying.
I reread the speech again when my PCV (potential campaign volunteer) complimented me on it. Damn! It was good. It was so good that the few remaining books I was about to recycle are frankly worth the listed price more for the speech than the lame adventure story it was appended to. I was hawking the story to pay for a congressional campaign in 1992. WHen the campaign ended I was stuck with thousands of books (now mostly recycled) that had the offending speech in it. I should mail it out to some of the tens of thousands of purged Republicans and those still clinging to the Party in hopes of seeing its resurgence. Of course, no one much likes an “I told you so.” That seems to be my chief qualification for any office. Seeing how blind other people are whether they are Republicans or School Board members.
