"THE MISERY THAT IS NOW UPON US...." Words of wisdom to help weather the "TEABAG TEMPESTS"

Libertas1776

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"THE MISERY THAT IS NOW UPON US...." Words of wisdom to help weather the "TEABAG TEMPESTS"

Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 11:41 PM by Libertas1776

They can only push and push the pendulum and divide and separate the people of this country with their extreme racism, warped, corrupt, regressive, fucking ideologies for so long before the pendulum swings back and knocks them all the fuck down like bowling pins. Despite what the "liberal biased" media:sarcasm: would like you to believe, these people are the fringe! They are and always will be. They had their moment under the sun, their fifteen minutes of fame already, in a time and place called the antebellum South.

There is a new America now, a nation of 305 Million people and growing. A diverse America full of white people, black people, brown people, and every other color that you can find under the sun. We are men and women, we are young and hold, we are straight and we are gay. We are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Atheist, Agnostic, Deists, Humanist, and Naturalists. This is the America that clamors for change; hell, this is America, and it is clamoring for change.

The people who you see are not "Americans," but merely residents of America. Many of them would prefer secession to continued membership in such a diverse nation. They are racist, bitter, white Anglo's with a fetish for the dead Confederacy; they are a portion of America that is now in it's death throws. They are not prepared to go gently into that good night, they will kick and scream and holler until the last of their chants and shouts are but a faint whisper, then gone. I say let them.

It is in the midst of this "teabag tempest" that I am reminded of the powerful words given by Charlie Chaplin as he broke the fourth wall at the end of "The Great Dictator," leaving behind his character of Dictator Adenoid Hynkel

And becomes....just Charles Chaplin, the man.

Here is but a few snips from that great speech. Read them and be enlightened.

The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

"The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress:

the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die liberty will never perish...

...Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality. The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up."

Read the rest of the speech here:

http://www.clown-ministry.com/index_1.php/articles/text_of_charlie_chaplins_speech_from_the_great_dictator_aka_look_up_hannah/

Here we have the "Golden Rule" illustration made by the most iconic, well known artist of all things Americana,
Norman Rockwell. It now hangs in the United Nations Headquarters in NYC. It is a representation of
the whole world, but it might as well be a microcosm of the whole United States.

"The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress" These "teabaggers" do not simply represent differences in opinion and ideology; they represent bigotry, regression, hatred, and fear. They look toward the future and they FEAR IT.

Well, I for one welcome it. :patriot: