One of my readers, not a blogger but “a real person”, stopped me the other day and said, “Why do you run a Tea Party website? You don’t seem to believe the same things we do.”
I guess I was expecting something like that sooner or later, so this is a good time to explain a bit about me and answer that question.
You see, I guess you could say I’m liberal on some things and conservative on others, but middle-of-the-road on most. I’ve looked at politics – from the inside and outside – and come to the conclusion that our great nation is sort of like a huge redwood tree. The liberals are hugging it as they move from right to left. The conservatives are moving from left to right, wondering how much they can make off the lumber if they cut this big giant. As they keep going, they end up meeting each other on the other side.
If people would just open their eyes and see how much of the distrust, fear, paranoia, even hate is manufactured by higher powers, we would see we have a lot more in common than we think.
When Sen. Eugene McCarthy ran against Lyndon Johnson in 1968 to try to bring an end to the Vietnam War (which most people now admit was a pretty stupid idea) I ran his Illinois presidential campaign. I saw up close the dirty tricks from both the Nixon campaign and the George Wallace campaign – both were offering us money to try to split the Democratic vote. I turned them both down. McCarthy forced LBJ out of the race and the rest is history.
In 1980 I was Republican John Anderson’s Davidson County co-chair and I saw still more dirty tricks when a Republican operative, trading on his old college friendship with Roger Hoover, our state chairman, tried to take the candidates daughter out on the town and get her drunk, drugged or both – but that’s another story that has never been told.
Along the way I’ve also worked on Tennessee Senate campaigns, a Fairview mayoral campaign and even helped a school principal get elected Williamson County Judge (long before they were called county mayors).
On that journey I discovered that both major parties are controlled by the same powers that be – powers bigger than any government. I discovered we live in a corporatocosy where the giant global corporations pull the strings, not any president, Senator or Congressman … and it’s gotten worse, not better.
These corporate wizards (as in Wizard of Oz) hide behind the curtains, using what is called the Hegelian Principal to sow discord. It works like this: first, you create a fear among the public of some real or imagined boogyman, then you agitate that fear, then offer a phony solution that serves your interests, not those of the people. Finally, you get public support behind your “solution” and presto – the people willingly give up their freedom in a so-called “trade” for security and safety.
When all is said and done, we all run around afraid of each other – suspicious, fearful, just barely inside the limits of violence – and even violence is used when desired. Hitler’s burning of the Reichstag is but one example, when he hired a retarded man to burn the historic site to the ground and blame it on the Jews. LBJ’s Gulf of Tonkin lie was another. There have been several.
The truth is, if you look behind the curtain where the little “Wizard of Oz” is hiding you find a schizoid little man who is both Republican and Democrat – and there’s not a dime’s worth of difference in their ultimate goal of achieving total power, whether by communist or fascist means.
Knowing this takes off your blinders and allows you to see the world the way it really is – whether in local politics or global.
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