The "Pretenders"

No, not them.

These are the folks--leftist/prog bloggers, pundits and Pols, the 'changey-hopey" crowd, i.e.--who continue to seek so avidly for, and to insist so valiantly on finding reasons OTHER than deep-seated, endemic, still mostly undiluted racism in USer culture to explain the rabidly vocal "resistance" to "President Obama's" ostensible desire to reform the provision of health-insurance for average Murkins.

The question is: What provokes this large, vitriolic cabal of (mainly working- and lower- and lower-middle class, mainly white) citizens, many of whom are already recipients of the State's largesse, to rage so furiouslt against proposals that, if enacted, would improve THEIR OWN health care, either by offering a 'public' option or by eventually eliminating the Health Insurance Parasites as middle-men, altogether?

And the answer, as plainly as ever has been possible to enunciate, is good, old Murkin institutional (as if there were any other kind) racism. Here's Tim Wise, a widely known lecturer on the subject:


Scholars studying the phenomenon have always averred that racism is not mostly, or even particularly, about individual acts of bias, bigotry, or discrimination. Individuals possessed of those demons exist in all human groups. But it has often been difficult to point to non-abstract examples (explicit 'systems,' or 'policies') which would satisfactorily illuminate the relevant social/political outlines of institutional racism in practice. The unfolding health insurance/health care 'debate' provides a paradigmatic case-in-point. That is, it is an OBVIOUS iteration of the (implicit) "racist" system by which the "superior" majority uses its political power to deny equal, fair access to a 'public good' (improved health care) to the despised, "inferior" minority, even though it means the majority will also be deprived (albeit less so).

And the animosity generated by the right-wing against the policies attributed to Obama apparently stems from the perception--fondly, even rapturously promulgated by the drooling fucktards of the flying-monkey right, the militia movement, and the nativist morons like Dobbs and Beck--that Obama is a disloyal, "un" or "anti" American 'plant' or 'mole' foisted off on the electorate by the "liberals" in an elaborate exercise in Affirmative Action aimned at finally ending the power of the "superior" majority.

(That may happen, in 100 years, but it won't be because of any health-insurance plan Obama happens to sign into law later this year.)

If you've not heard/of Tim Wise, now's the time to start.
Scholars studying the phenomenon have always averred that racism is not mostly, or even particularly, about individual acts of bias, bigotry, or discrimination. Individuals possessed of those demons exist in all human groups. But it has often been difficult to point to non-abstract examples (explicit 'systems,' or 'policies') which would satisfactorily illuminate the relevant social/political outlines of institutional racism in practice. The unfolding health insurance/health care 'debate' provides a paradigmatic case-in-point. That is, it is an OBVIOUS iteration of the (implicit) "racist" system by which the "superior" majority uses its political power to deny equal, fair access to a 'public good' (improved health care) to the despised, "inferior" minority, even though it means the majority will also be deprived (albeit less so).

And the animosity generated by the right-wing against the policies attributed to Obama apparently stems from the perception--fondly, even rapturously promulgated by the drooling fucktards of the flying-monkey right, the militia movement, and the nativist morons like Dobbs and Beck--that Obama is a disloyal, "un" or "anti" American 'plant' or 'mole' foisted off on the electorate by the "liberals" in an elaborate exercise in Affirmative Action aimned at finally ending the power of the "superior" majority.

(That may happen, in 100 years, but it won't be because of any health-insurance plan Obama happens to sign into law later this year.)

Scrape the ridiculous rhetoric away, and it comes down to the fact that, for now, anyway, it is still considered bad form to stand aside and shout "Nigger" at black folks, so those who feel compelled to do it (and that seems NOT to be a small number of Middull Murkins) have fastened on 'issues' around which to organize their rage at being "led," even nominally, by an "inferior" race...

Make no mistake: That IS the issue, has always BEEN the issue, and will always BE the issue...