Apparently the Republicrooks have expanded their war of conquest-the one in which they play the victim-to Thanksgiving. Yet another solemn, family day has been politicized for them. Yet another holiday has been perverted and abused for their winner-take-all propaganda campaign of hate, non-inclusiveness and self-serving ideology. This from the family values folks, the millionaires who "speak" for the common man, the party of God. Thing is, with any war, a surge creates pockets that expose your weaknesses, and that is just what they have done with this new front in the Holiday Wars (My term).
Michelle Malkin has bravely gone on the attack against the sensitivities of Native Americans. How dare they have an opinion about the country they once had. After all, through diseases, genocide, stereotyping and a laundary list of other grievances and abuses, Indians should be thankful come Thursday that they have been "awarded" reservation islands in a land originally theirs.
European folks have done such a great job with the land. But to be fair, at least Thanksgiving, with respectful reverence to Native American suffering and sacrifice, at least attained the stature of a family holiday. Did it always live up to that standard? Nothing people create ever completely measures up to its ideal, but lots of folks made an effort.
Thanksgiving was the start of the holiday season, not the holiday wars. It was a prelude to a spiritual period of Peace and giving, not stark and crass commercialism and political rough-housing, by any party. It definitely was not overtly recognized as merely the kickoff to frantic consumerism.
Now, we begin hearing retail sales forecasts for Black Friday in August. August! and now Black friday has become the real holiday. People plan and prepare for it, the corporate news ticks off the minutes, and helps to build anticipation for all the dubious sales and "Must Have" toys for the season.
Funny, O'reilly, Malkin, Medved, Bennett, Hannity and Limbaugh are all silent on this. But they are revealved by their silence. And native Americans are an easy soft target for their ugliness and Anti-American diatribes. It is easy to kick American Indians though. Not sure alot of Lakota, Cherokee, Ojibwa or Navajos watch a great deal of FOX News, except to dream about the old days and that whole Custer thing.
This is all about the money for them. It is always about the money for them, while treating the rest of us like saps who fall easily for crap phrases like "Borders, Language, Culture," or "Conservatism," or "its all right to have sex with men in airport bathrooms but be against gay marriage if you are a Republican Senator because some democrat took a bribe."
Stay home on Friday. Go work in a soup kitchen, help the hungry, volunteer at a church, synagogue or mosque(notice the lack of caps). Walk in the woods with the kids, a partner or spouse. Read a book! But if you wind up trampled in line at Walmart over a $25 DVD player, in a slug fest over the latest Guitar Hero game at a Best Buy your last words should be...
...Thanks Pilgrims for this blessing.
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