St huberts church homedale id 8362812/18/2023 ![]() ![]() This is coupled with the logic that the world is a winner-take-all system: that there is only so much justice to go around and that each of us must fight our own battle to win what few scraps we can get from the oppressor’s table. Let me explain: the logic of the oppressor says, “black people are slaves, they are less than human, and they should be treated as such.” Poor whites who are no better off in many ways than the black slaves internalize this logic, and a divide is created where the poor see themselves as separate communities of suffering.2 Theoretically speaking this is the current state of the progressive movement in the United States: we are divided into different categories, sectionalized and dissected into different groups that have completely unrelated grievances. ![]() It is a common and unfortunate thing that the oppressed internalize the logic of the oppressor. Let us pretend for a moment that GOP is a logically cohesive bunch with interests that all converge nicely, is it the case that this is not true for progressives? The big Crux of the issue here is that the GOP base has many different interests, many of them in conflict1 yet they rally around the grand-old-flag every time on every issue. The institutional construction that allows these things come to pass so easily is rather simple and should not come as a surprise to anyone: the Republicans have a very outspoken organized conservative base that continually pushes them to the right, the Democrats have a disorganized collaboration of concerns that push them in many different directions, but never in one direction at the same time. De-regulation, which caused the financial crisis, has not been in any way substantively reversed (and let us be reminded that it was a lack of regulation that caused the Great Depression.) And while it was imperative that we bail out the Wall Street blackjack dealers, loan-sharks, and con-men people are losing their homes, cannot feed their families and are getting sick because the only food they can afford is laden with government subsidized corn syrup, preservatives, and God-knows what else. Iraq is now a ‘democracy’ (meaning that they have a government that is friendly to our corporate sponsored foreign policy, not that anything has substantively changed for the Iraqi people.) They passed a health-care ‘reform’ bill that consists of little more than a massive handout to the insurance companies. Just to name a few ways in which we see this manifested: the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision opened the flood gates of corporate wealth into our already weak political system FOX continues to pump conservative propaganda into our lives under the veil of ‘news ’ and the Democratic Party, supposedly the progressive half of our two-party system, continues to sit by and give lip service to our concerns while either continuing Bush policies, or in some cases making them worse: people are still rotting in Guantanamo Bay with little hope of release, and we have entered a fourth war in Libya. In the story of the American culture war conservatives are winning. Why, and Why It Does Not Need To Be This Way. I’m not sure if this is any good or if it even says what needs to be said, I also hesitate to post it in a public forum because I know that it is not done yet, however, since we have done very little publicity on this particular cause I suspect that there won’t be much traffic on this page, secondly, the communication has been very slow and I have no direct way of getting this out to everyone at this time, so here it is and if anyone has any objection feel free to take it back down: ![]() It is not finalized, as you will see, I did this on purpose because I know that on the majority of these issues I am not an expert and really I have no right to directly speak for the communities involved. I’m uploading this essay in the hopes that I can get some feedback from those who have been involved in the process of putting together the protest against the Knights of Columbus. ![]()
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