Mark Morford: Dear Texas: Please Shut Up. Sincerely, History

[tonysam]

Hey, kids! Here's something I bet you didn't know: Black people? Back in 1800 or whenever? They liked being slaves. True! Many savvy, industrious Negroes actually volunteered for that fine, desirable position. It was a completely balanced, fair, hugely successful system, until those damn liberals came along and ruined everything. I know, right? What a shame.

Do you know what else? America was wholly victorious in Vietnam. It's a fact! Kicked some serious enemy butt! Mission accomplished! Sure it was a little bumpy for awhile, but President Nixon, that great and wronged American hero, put us on the righteous path in the end, wrapped that sucker up beautifully and made America the noble Superman to the world. Hey, it's the truth! You can look it up in your history textbook!

Even more good, newly historic news: Despite what you may have heard from the liberal media, America has very much won its recent, God-sanctioned wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Angry Allah loses again! Just look at this handy diagram on page 281, Figure 4-9. See those little dark-skinned bodies stacked up neatly beside that minaret? Right next to that completely unstaged photo of the toppled Saddam statue? Look how many there are! Graphs never lie.

Did you know, back in the frontier days, that Native Americans welcomed the white man with open arms? Absolutely true. Those poor, sunburned people were so beaten down and exploited by their oppressive dictator "chiefs," they were forced to believe in all sorts of disgusting pagan sun gods and had to eat, like, rocks and snakes and stuff.

S.F. Chronicle

[Salviati]

1. People should have listened more closely to Nixon...

He didn't claim to have a secret plan for victory in Vietnam, but rather a plan for secret victory. You mean you didn't hear that we won in Vietnam? Shhh... it's a secret...

[tom_paine]

2. That's most definitely a "Final Phase of Transition" thing!

In our long journey from What We Were (a democratic-republic trying to evolve into a moderate "more perfect union" building on the Founding Ideals) to What We Are Becoming (a Corporate Neofeudalist state run on the latest "state-of-the-art" mechnaisms of propaganda and social control or, if the American Corporatists lose control of the demons they have awakened in our National Soul, like the German Industrialists in the 1930s, and Uber-Right "old-fashioned"-style totalitarianism), I would say the blatant political revising of history by Authoritarians is one checkmark that tells us we are MUCH closer to What We Are Becoming.

I have broken these various aspects in our trek into the following phases of transition:

Early Tranisition Phase
Early-Middle Transition Phase
Middle Transition Phase
Late-Middle Transition Phase
Penultimate Transition Phase
Final Phase (or "Final Solution Phase", if you like, though no one can predict exactly what it will look like)

Overall, I think we are still in Late-Middle Transition, but damned if the Texas revisionist history move of 2010 doesn't firmly belong in the Penultimate category.

Which, to me means we are getting close to Penultimate Phase as the brazenness of RW authoritarians is snowballing and reaching epic proportions.