Joan Walsh: GOP’s rodeo of racism blows up

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22. I think that's exactly it. I suspect on Election Night 2008, most of the country patted itself

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on the back and flattered itself and congratulated itself that it was "over" that silly racism thing - that those silly "lefties" still make such a damn big deal about. I mean - look what we just did, they said. We have a black President now. Yay us! Get a load of us, willya? Ain't we big and broadminded now? Everybody cheer - we've come a long way, baby.


NOT.

I think when many of them woke up the next morning, as one can do with a hangover following a big bad bender the night before, the cold hard truth started to sink in. Uh - wait a minute. Whothehell is THAT? If it didn't happen on the morning after Election Night, it sure as hell sank in by Inauguration Day, when all the outward signs reinforced the truth. There went the white folks, the bushes - helicoptering out of town, NO LONGER in power. That couple staying behind, waving them off - whothehell is that? And why don't they look like me? WHAT???? WTF do you mean THEY are in charge now??? THOSE people? OMG! NO! IT CAN'T BE!!!! SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE!!!

I think that's how it went down in the minds of too many knuckle-draggers in America. Just that simple. They woke up from the celebratory bender of the nation as most of us were almost deliriously happy finally to be RID of fucking bush/cheney, and to have a DEMOCRAT replace him, and one who had opposed the war, and a community organizer at that! And yeah, a black guy and his black wife. The white couple next to the two of them were the SECOND-IN-COMMAND. NOT Number One. NOT at the top of the ziggurat. This time, the white couple were the "Second Couple," and the black guy and black lady with them were NOT there with them to take their coats and nod deferentially and then quietly make themselves scarce back in the kitchen and butler's pantry. You know, in their "proper place."

I think that corner of America woke up on one of those Mornings After and gagged. Acid reflux like nobody's business. The cold hard truth hit them like a speeding freight train, and they realized they just couldn't deal with this. It was JUST. SO. WRONG!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! And then, as any spoiled snot-nosed three-year-old brat-child would do, they threw a temper tantrum, and started acting out. Those here and elsewhere who've noticed it's getting worse, and louder, and meaner, and more vicious and vitriolic than ever - maybe more offensive and horrible and shameful than anyone here can even remember, are just documenting it, really. At least that's how it looks, to me. None of their tantrums have worked so far in getting rid of that "other" who doesn't know his proper place, so they do what screaming brats do everywhere when their shitty behavior isn't checked. They turn up the volume. They get louder, they stomp their widdle feet harder and slam their bedroom doors harder, they misbehave more - and more viciously and with MORE meanness. And it grows and expands the longer the situation they don't like continues unabated. It'll keep up until they get their way - and NOTHING so far has worked for getting their way. NOTHING they do makes it - or rather him - go away. They were sure they had him beat in 2012. And they cheated and gamed the system and stacked the deck as best they could to deny him votes in as many ways as they could think of. And nothing worked.

That's why you're seeing the increase in nastiness, dirty tricks, attempted cheating, more insults, more lack of decorum, more desperation, more and louder pouting and whining and name-calling, more hostile and mean-spirited and even threatening language, more stunts, more amping it up. Now, for example, some of the more reckless are talking impeachment again - they gonna haul that crap back out now? Is this their limited-intellect, knee-jerk default strategy for the last two years of the Obama administration like they resorted to during the last two years of the Clinton administration. Oh, look. The two-termer is three-quarters done. He's a Dem. The clock says end of third quarter means it's time to start impeaching the President. Back then, too, they were out of options. They'd spent tens of millions of dollars (which was astounding back then), thrown everything and several kitchen sinks - and bathroom sinks and toilets and matching bathtubs at BOTH Clintons (even Chelsea was targeted by some, and she was a young girl back then) and nothing got them removed from the White House. The persecution never ended. And that's a good word for it. Persecution. It's what they're doing to President Obama, too. Except they're making it racial. And not in a good way. Which is taking the "adding insult to injury" strategy to a nauseating and shameful extreme!

I think we're seeing a group of people acting out against evolutionary circumstances, and an inevitable moment of great change, when their world as they knew it was suddenly up-ended. They want white-dominant America. And the time for that is passing. Things change. People change. Things evolve. Populations shift. Generations flourish, then age, and then pass - replaced by others coming up after them who aren't their clones. Communities and influences and trends change. Things Change. That's just how it is. And we have people in this country who are afraid of change. They bleat and cry about wanting their America back. They want things the way they used to be (what they think used to be - you always remember what you want to remember). And that's just not the way it is. So instead of accepting change and rolling with it, they fight and resist and yell and scream and throw tantrums. Like the spoiled adult-size three-year-olds they seem in actuality to be. They want it to be okay to be racist - to feel that way about someone not like you - to feel a superiority complex of some weird sort. It just isn't that way and these folks don't want to accept that truth. Hence the bubble they've built by entities like limbaugh and Pox Noise to insulate themselves from the real world.

The same type told us, after Selection 2000, to Get Over It. Well, they should, too.