[The Rude Guy, the Leo Tolstoy of podcasting, tears into Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, women’s problems, men’s problems, war, divorce, downsizing. feminism, the Labor Movement, and asks: Does the racial/gender/ethinic composition of the George Bush White House herald the end of the Civil Rights movement?…Does the Democratic Party understand the difference between white men and RICH white men?…Is George W Bush really Charleton Heston in a monkey suit?...And what's going on at the Rich Zubaty Web Site: www.happyfool.org]
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This is the Rude Guy, the Leo Tolstoy of podcasting, the Professor of Peace, welcoming you to The Reality Cult…the original BRAINCAST…presenting the Idea of the Week.
This is the show with something to offend everybody. The show that’s about ideas…not opinions, not issues. IDEAS. The show that dares to ask:
Why is Karl Rove’s head so big? Did someone stick a bicycle pump in his ear when he was a kid and blow the ethical center of his brain out the OTHER ear?
And why is Dick Cheney so mean? Did someone shoot his dog when he was a kid?…Were they trying to shoot him?
And is George W Bush really Charleton Heston in a monkey suit? THAT would certainly explain something. The man who doesn’t believe in EEEvolution is the poster boy for DEEvolution,…marching us back to the planet of the apes.
But it’s time to beat up on the Left Wing bigots in the so- called Democratic Party.
The idea of the week this week is:
Does the Democratic Party understand the difference between white men and RICH white men?…If SO they should probably hang banners outside their convention sites saying: White Men Welcome Inside. So we’re SURE to get the message.
Or maybe blacks and women and Hispanics should hold house parties and invite white guys. Feed them pizza and beer and talk about fishing and football…or maybe French paintings and Tolstoy’s short stories. We’re not as dumb as you think. Working men have more in common with the Democrats than the Republicans on any issue, in any era. But the Democrats have abused us. Taken us for granted. Driven us into the arms either of Nader or the Republicans. The Democratic Party has had nothing to say to white men in 30 tears. Thirty fucking years!
We’ve heard all about women’s problems and black problems and Hispanic problems. But what about men’s problems?…war, divorce, downsizing. When are the Democrats gonna look us in the eye and say: we FEEL your pain, and we’re gonna DO something about it…We know that your wife filed for divorce, and she’s using your kids as a weapon against you. We know, that in a society where it takes two people’s income to support ONE household, you have been commanded by the court to support TWO households on your income alone. And on top of all that, we know you have been downsized, that your job has been outsourced to China. We hear you, and we’re gonna DO something about it.
For thirty years white men have been shit on. We’re greedy, we’re stupid we’re aggressive, we’re everything bad. The problem with the world is white men. And worse, there are legions of wimpy ass white men… getting out in front of the pack…demeaning other white men, and thereby performing an ancient male ritual – beating back the sexual competition. It’s pathetic. It’s shameful. It’s a losing strategy…It’s normal male behavior…NOT enlightened male behavior. Run-of-the-mill male behavior. Tearing down the competition. These guys are eating their own allies. Talk about dumb.
Here’s what I see. George W Bush didn’t bring any communists into the White House. Didn’t bring in any socialists. No environmentalists or unionists either. However, George Bush DID bring blacks into the White House. He brought in Hispanics and he brought in women. What does that TELL you?
It tells ME that race and ethnicity and gender do NOT matter. It tells ME that black politics and Latino politics and women’s politics do not mean SHIT. It tells ME that the George Bush presidency heralded the END of the Civil Rights movement. A NOBLE social REORGANIZATION that ended not with a bang, but a whimper. Condoleeza Rice and Alberto Gonzalez represent poor, oppressed minorities? You have your head up your butt if you fall for that – and lots of Leftist media did just that. Gave these turn-coat sell-outs a free pass, when they should have given them one-way tickets to Siberia.
The only thing George Bush cared about was whether these people, these sell-outs, would fly the flag of their skin color, or their ethnicity, or their gender in support of his corporate war-mongering agenda. How dare we look the other way at fawning freaks like Condi Rice and Colin Powell and Alberto Gonzalez…And shit on the growing ranks of white men who are doing everything they can do to rid this country of it’s perpetual war economy.
Not only does it make no sense. It makes no political sense. To appeal to the uppity self-serving agenda of a few million white women, the Democratic Party has alienated a hundred million white men. Political suicide. Cadres of RICH white men in the leadership of BOTH political parties, but especially the Democrats, think they are going to steer the ship of state by crapping on white men. That’s a recipe for revolution.
So here’s the answer for the Democrats. YES, there is a difference between white men and RICH white men. There is a HUGE difference. The guys who build your houses and pave your roads are mostly white men. The guys who go out in the middle of storms to restore your BLOWN-DOWN electric lines are mostly white men. The guys who grow your food are mostly white men. And the guys who sit at the top of the heap promoting the careers of women and blacks and Hispanics are MOSTLY RICH white men. We live in an economy where real wages, real take-home pay, has plummeted over the past several decades…and the guys who shit on the livelihoods of a hundred million white men…are RICH white men.
So what do you think? Is it time for the Democrats to STOP shaming white men?…NO, that’s not nearly enough. The Democrats should erect huge signs outside all their events and conferences that say: White Men Welcome Inside. The Democratic Party should throw it’s arms open to white men. The Democratic Party should admit that it has been beating up on an essential ally for decades and it is time to stop the demonization of white men.
Time for a bird break. [crazy riot sequence?]
Jeeezus who put this on here?
Turn it off, Turn it OFF.
The Democratic Party of my youth was built on the back of LABOR UNIONS. The rise of feminism corresponds directly with the DECLINE in unions. The rise of so-called Civil Rights corresponds exactly with the COLLAPSE of unions. Was this a coincidence?
Far from it. The biggest early supporters of feminism were the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. Playboy is right up there too. Ford and Rockefeller didn’t give any money to communists, or socialists, or unions. But they funded feminism. What did RICH white men see from the very beginNING?…That they’d be able to hire women and blacks for lower wages, than they paid the white men…who were the sole bread-winners for their families…and BUST the unions. And that’s just what they did. The feminist movement was the biggest scab labor movement in history, and we never talk about it. We NEVER talk about it. It STRENGTHENED the corporations, destroyed unions and it DESTROYED the whole reason for there to BE a Democratic Party—which was to protect the workers against the corporations.
The question became “How many WOMEN do they have on their payroll, how many BLACKS do they have on their payroll, rather than, HOW MUCH are they PAYING their workers?” And while women were bitching and moaning about white men, RICH white men were laughing all the way to the bank…And they still are. We are worried about a glass-ceiling for women, and not a minimum LIVING WAGE for EVERYBODY? Outraaageous.
This is the biggest cultural fuck-up in American history and we never talk about it. We NEVER talk about it…Well…I have bad news for the Democrats. They will NEVER win another election until they can begin TALKING to white men…until they can begin to address our pain…our divorced families, our outsourced jobs…and until they stop RIDICULING and SHAMING us. That MINDLESS vindictiveness has backfired.
Most white men want nothing to do with a Republican agenda. Anyone can see the Republican leadership is a bunch of CORRUPT, corporate-sponsored, war-mongering fucks who shit on the masses of us. But when the alternative is to support a party that insists on shaming you, belittling you…demonizing you for your SKIN color…and for being the wrong GENDER…BLAMING you for things you didn’t do – but RICH white men DID do – it’s no wonder the Reagan Democrats emerged. I wouldn’t want feminists in charge of our government any more than I want Bush and Cheney in charge. Both groups are delusional extremists, bent on destroying men…black, brown and white. The Neocons by sending us to fight their corporate colonial battles in places like Iraq…the feminists by driving us out of our families.
During Vietnam I refused induction, protested against the draft nonstop…and the FBI chased me around until I went to France. When I got back what I saw was that women and FEMINIZED men had inundated the job market. Neither the guys returning from fighting the war, NOR the guys like me, returning from fighting AGAINST the war…could find jobs. It was the women…and the FEMINIZED MEN, the connivers…the selfish sell-outs…the Bill Clinton’s and the George W. Bush’s…who didn’t fight IN the war, and didn’t fight AGAINST the war…who had wiggled their slick asses through the system UNSCATHED…It was THESE creeps who had moved up the ladder into graduate school, and corporate, and public life. The REAL men were left out. Black, brown AND white.
And that’s who we have running this country today. Not the cream of the crop of the sixties generation, but the bottom of the barrel slicksters and slugs, and charmers and sell-outs. That’s why we’re in the mess we’re in. Because, with the complicity of feminist detractors, WHITE men, GOOD white men, HONEST white men, NOBLE white men, have been shoved out of the political process. If you are black or Asian or a woman you are automatically good. And if you are a white man you are automatically bad. It was the white men, not the RICH white men, who gave up their jobs to Affirmative Action. But did American society downsize its expectations of white men?.. Hell no…Women still want to marry a guy who makes more money than THEY do. It’s like feeding a chimpanzee grass instead of bananas, and still expecting it to run around in the tops of trees. It makes no sense, and it has no HEART. If I had been sitting back in the Soviet Union 20 years ago and wanted to cook up the perfect way to destroy America I couldn’t have come up with a better plan than to DEMONIZE, to NEUTRALIZE, honest white men.
I’ll say it again. Look at the White House. It’s doesn’t matter if you are black or brown or female or Jewish. The George Bush White House is full of them! What matters is if you are willing to risk something, risk everything, to oppose war… or whether you sell your soul to support the war economy. Whether you are willing to risk everything to oppose corporate domination of our society, and the rest of the world…or whether you sell-out to the corporate bastards who are trying to colonize the planet.
We don’t have rigorous political debate in this country. We have well-funded special interest groups dominating the airwaves and print space with their narrow-minded COWSHIT and self-serving agendas. Our entertainers and political performers are puppets, enforcing the COVERT agendas of RICH white men, and rich WOMEN and rich BLACKS and rich Asians and rich Hispanics, all of whom wish to dominate the planet by way of corporate colonialism enforced by the United States military.
And the Dems can come up with nothing better than trashing white men? What an utterly bankrupt party. Bill Clinton, Slick Willie, the deceitful charmer, who avoided Vietnam just like George W Bush, was the best REPUBLICAN president we’ve had since Teddy Roosevelt. He championed Nafta and welfare reform and bombing Kosovo. He presided over the Wal-martization of America…destroying small town America. WHY… and what for? His wife Hilary was Sam Walton’s lawyer, way back there in Arkansas. Sam used to call her “my little lady”, for God’s sake. I won’t vote for Hillary for president because she’s already BEEN president for 8 years and I’ve had enough of Clintonian OPINION POLL politics. I want leadership! F…D…R style leadership.
If Bill Clinton is a Democrat I am orange jello. The man stood for nothing. Nothing at ALL. I cannot recall one single good thing he accomplished during his presidency. Eight years of nothing. His only agenda was to stay in power and that’s what he did. And this is what the Dems wish to rebuild UPON? Smarmy charming nothingness. Give me an ENEMA for my brain.
The Democrats can regenerate themselves, but ONLY by welcoming white men, honest white men, honorable white men, back into the fold. We are simply too big a MINORITY to be ignored. Yes, white women are the biggest political group in America. NOT a minority. The biggest group.
RICH white men don’t do ANYTHING for white men. They don’t’ give us jobs or promotions. They shit on us. The same way RICH white women shit on us. The same way RICH Arabs and RICH Europeans and RICH Mexicans and RICH Chinese shit on us. Gender politics is dead. Racial politics is dead. Ethnic politics is dead.
We have a class war going on in this country and it’s time to wake up to that fact. It’s RICH people versus the rest of us. Rich Arabs and Rich Jews and Rich Women and Rich White men and Rich Black Men and Rich Greeks and Italians and Chinese and Serbs, versus the rest of us. Chevron named a supertanker after Condoleezza Rice. My God, what else do you need to know? None of the political theatrics you see on TV have any bearing on what’s really going on. It’s just a show, performed by well-paid journalistic chimpanzees, who have NO fundamental education outside of journalism school, who have NO idea what’s really going on in the world. Everything is entertainment and nothing is real.
I’ll come back to this topic on future shows. But in order to dig ourselves deeper into the trenches of SOLUTIONS, we must first understand what the word “populism” means, and how it’s been edited out of our schoolbooks, and the magnificent role it played in reshaping this country 100 years ago… During the age of the ROBBER BARONS. That’s coming soon.
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This is the Rude Guy. I’ll be back next week.
Stay strong. Don’t let anybody intimidate you. Don’t let anybody shame you.
No more COWSHIT. That’s our motto. NO MORE COWSHIT!
Ahhh [note: like taking a shit.]….feels a little better already.
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