"The threat to our culture comes from within. In the 1960s, there were welfare programs that created a culture of poverty in our country. Now, some people think we won that battle when we reformed welfare. But the liberals haven't given up. At every turn, they tried to substitute government largess for individual responsibility. They fight to strip work requirements from welfare, to put more people on Medicaid, and remove more and more people from having to pay any income tax whatsoever. Dependency is death to initiative, risk-taking and opportunity. Dependency is culture killing. It's a drug. We've got to fight it like the poison it is."
The ignorance -- and inhumanity -- of this statement is breathtaking.
Think of it: there was no poverty in the United States until "liberals"
came along in the 1960s and "created" it with their welfare programs.
(Before this "culture of poverty" was created, apparently, the few poor
people in America just died off discreetly, like Russians, instead of
hanging around a bit longer on government handouts, the way they do now,
the shiftless, no-good wretches. Oh yeah, and they breed a lot too,
more than white folks.) And even though Bill Clinton (uncredited here,
of course, but the elite are well aware of his sterling services)
finally drove the stake through the welfare program, these evildoers
will still not rest. Just look at what they want to do: "put more people
on Medicaid," and "remove more and more people from having to pay any
income tax whatsoever." (Wait a minute; I thought red-meat-chomping
CPACkers were in favor of people paying no taxes. I guess that only
applies to the right sort of people.)
All of this -- especially
the stuff about "risk-taking" and "dependency" on government largess -- is pretty rich coming from an avatar of a ruling class that is glutted
with pampered heirs of wealth and power who, like Romney, begin their
totally risk-free careers at the very top of the ladder, and who are
continually fattened with no-bid contracts, kickbacks, tax breaks,
subsidies, war profits and myriad other forms of "government largess."
But beyond the transparent hypocrisy -- and the ludicrous pretense that
the "liberals" in today's Democratic Party pose some kind of genuine
threat to this cornucopia -- Romney's blast is a perfect encapsulation of
the elite's hatred for the rabble they use as cannon fodder and cash
cows. Let them get sick, let them die, let them languish in poverty, let
them lose their homes, let them work three jobs to make ends meet -- but
by God don't you ever do anything, anything at all, to change the
system that produces these chronic inequities and keeps the pampered
elite in clover. That's evil. That's "poison." And it won't be allowed.
The
speech goes on and on in this way; reading it is like wading through
the sewage pipe of an abattoir. China and India and other Asian nations
pose a challenge that must be confronted and beaten down. Why? Because
they may "pass us by as the economic superpower, just as we passed
England and France during the last century." And we must stop the yellow
devils, because "the prosperity and security of our children and
grandchildren depend on us." Apparently, it is not possible for Asian
nations and the United States to be secure and prosperous at the same
time; "our children" can only prosper at the expense of others. This too
is transparently ludicrous, even nonsensical, if taken literally. Of
course, ordinary Asians and Americans could be prosperous at the same
time. What Romney really means is that the American elite cannot exert
dominance and gorge itself in the manner to which it has become
accustomed if other nations are secure and prosperous in their own
right.
And that is where the "War on Terror" -- the linchpin of
Romney's speech, and the justification he offers for folding his
campaign -- comes in. The Terror War is simply an extension of the
long-held goal of the American elite (and their British "junior
partners") to maintain and extend their dominion over the world's
natural resources and political arrangements -- and the exorbitant
profits this dominion produces. There is ample evidence in the
historical record of the Anglo-American elite's abiding -- and quite open
-- anxieties on this score, going back for generations. Literally
millions of people all over the world have been sacrificed to these
ambitions and anxieties, which have not abated but grow more frantic and
acute with each passing year.
This is moral psychosis on a monumental scale. It is the complete and utter repudiation of every civilized ideal, of every fragment of enlightenment wrenched from the blood-drenched slagheap of human history. Yet it passes for normality in our political discourse.
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