Someone sent me a link to an interesting website tonight. “One Nation Working Together” is a group that focuses on a matrix of the abstractions of “unity” and “justice”, with the objectives of “education” and “jobs”.
On her radio show, NPR’s Michelle Martin described “One Nation” as a “rapidly growing group", a mixture of “all backgrounds, hues, and faiths.”
“Hues”? I’ll bet you can already tell which kind of group this is.
This group’s website features a welcome video by chief-kook-and-bottle-washer, Howard Dean. In it, he says that "those who would force our Nation backwards, have become louder, and move devisive", and that "we still represent the American mainstream." The entire theme of this welcome (and the entire group) is a lamentation of the doused momentum from Obama’s "World Tour 2008", trying to replicate the essence and success of the completely unexpected "Tea Party" movement, with a twist of 1960’s communing. It is a soup of denial and a reality-altering propaganda, just like the entire Progressive movement today. You cannot manufacture sincere frustration, protestation, and Patriotism; especially when you are wrong. You can only bend and twist the truth, or just outright lie, and hope for the best.
Let me throw a few quotes at you, from their website:
- “We are One Nation, born from many, determined to build a more united America – with jobs, justice and education for all.”
- We are young people, frustrated that society seems willing to spend more locking up our bodies than educating our minds, yet still we find ways to succeed and shine.
- We are baby boomers and seniors – who saw hope killed in 1968 and will not let the dream of a united America be taken from us again.
- We are conservatives and moderates, progressives and liberals, non-believers and people of deep faith, united by escalating assaults on our reason, our environment, and our rights.
- We are workers of every age, faith, race, sex, nationality, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and ability – who have suffered discrimination but never stopped loving our neighbors, or our nation.
- We are people who got thrown out – thrown out of our jobs, schools, houses, farms and small businesses – while Wall Street’s wrongdoers got bailed out. We are families who pray every day – for peace and prosperity; for deliverance from foreclosures; for good jobs to come back to urban and rural America.
- We are unemployed workers – forced to watch hopes for bold action dashed – because some Senators threaten filibusters, and other would-be champions fold in fear.
- We march to end racial profiling and re-segregation– from Arizona to Atlanta. We march to defend the Voting Rights Act and the 14th Amendment. We march to advance human rights, civil rights, equal protection, and dignity for all.
- We march to move our nation beyond this moment when a handful of Senators can block urgently needed progress – skewing our national budget towards tax cuts for the wealthy, unjustified military spending and prisons.
- Join us. We are One Nation Working Together: For Jobs, For Justice, For Education, For All.
There are literally, hundreds of other snippets I could put here, but I only have so much room.
Some thoughts on a few these quotes:
- Translation: “We’re a bunch of disenfranchised Progressives and Liberals, who are pissed off that the Tea Party (no, the American people) are about to justifiably take away our Marxist vision of ‘hope and change’, entitlements, and wealth redistribution. Gosh darn it!”
- What, exactly, does “locking up our bodies” mean?
- I’m sure a few moderates are buying this crap, but if there are ANY conservatives at this party, they simply lost their medication…a few weeks ago.
- They should call this group “Coalition of Associated Crybabies of America” (CACA)
- Drama. Lots of it.
- I’m going to bet none of these people pray.
- “Some Senators threaten filibuster” – wow, even in power, these people are indignant victims. Perhaps they are practicing for 2011-2016.
One big, happy, utopian circus…tent. It gets better.
This Saturday, October 2, 2010, One Nation is holding a rally in Washington DC, as a “challenge to Glenn Beck’s attention-getting march in August, but it’s also scheduled for exactly a month before this year’s midterm elections in November, and it’s attempting to focus the nation’s attention on jobs, justice and education.”
Power to the people, and to the tireless, humble worker! Unite, komrades!
Ms. Martin featured spokespeople from two of the myriad leftist, statist sponsoring groups (WARNING: viewing this list may scare you). It was no surprise to me that they were La Raza and The American Federation of Teachers. Oh, and she included Karen Finney, former communications director for the DNC, and current MSNBC commentator. Fair and balanced!
When they say “justice” and “fair chance”, they really mean preferential treatment to their “under-classes”; they mean government subsidies and handouts; they mean wealth redistribution; they mean state-sanctioned trans-gendered equal opportunity; they mean jobs created by direct government intervention; they mean government control of industry, markets, and the media; they mean ever-stronger unions; they mean amnesty, open-borders, and “one world”; they mean to suck the life out of America, until it dies on the vine.
They have no idea that merit is the basis for job protection, not government. They have no idea that American business will surge and prosper, if only the government would get out of the way. They have no idea that THEY, as individuals, are their own best advocates, not Barack Obama. They have no idea what charity is, except for the government kind.
They have no idea that their sadness, fear, and disillusionment are the product of generational government interference and intrusion, into things that it has no business, authority, or skill, to be involved with.
These people have been brainwashed by the institutional spew coming, in-synchronized streams, from the main stream media, our educational system, and the government itself, since 1968 (at least), when we saw “hope killed."
Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe 500,000+ show up at their rally, as they did at Glenn Beck’s and at 9.12.09? Maybe the themes of this group, and of this march, resonate with the average American, who will take 3 days off from work, travel to DC in a bus, with complete strangers, for a common cause. Maybe?
I’ll bet MSNBC will be there, in the field, reporting it to us. I may actually tune in, with my popcorn (and my barfbag), to watch the freak-show.
