First, they betrayed
the Muslims1, and I did not object because I was, at least nominally, a Christian.
Then they betrayed
organized labor2, and I did not object because I was a
university-educated professional.
Then they betrayed
African-Americans3, and I did not object because I was white.
Then they betrayed
the poor4, and I did not object because I was middle-class.
Then they betrayed
the Christian professional white middle-class5, and all I could do
was watch them and their 1% friends laugh as they kept thinking about tomorrow.
(based, of
course, on Niemoller's poem)
1 In the 1992, Slick Willy promised to
intervene in the Balkans to stop the ongoing slaughter of Bosnian Muslims, then
reneged after the election, which, in addition to his thrice-weekly bombing of
Iraq, influenced the rise of Al Qaida.
2 The
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), whose mutant step-children, TPP
and TTIP, Obama has been pushing for the world to adopt and finished
enslaving the world under the absolute despotism of “the market”.
3 The Violent
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the campaign for which included
dog-whistle racism that would have embarrassed George Wallace, though not the
mentor by proxy of the Goldwater Girl, who played a major part.
4 The Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, the campaign of which again
included some of the most embarrassing dog-whistle racism of the late 20th
century. This law destroyed “welfare as
we know it”, enshrined the values of Ayn Rand in American law and Democratic
Party culture, and obliterated nearly all the Great Society and much of the New
Deal.
5 The Financial
Services Modernization Act of 1999 which repealed the protections of the
Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that set conditions for the wild, wild west of the
economy in the end of the 20th and early 21st centuries
that brought about the collapse and destruction of much of the middle-class was
one of Slick willy’s most prized achievements.
* * * * *
It could have been
even worse.
Slick Willy was
conspiring with Newt Gingrich to privatize both Social Security and Medicare,
but that was aborted by the Monika Lewinsky scandal.
Slick Willy’s last
attempt at screwing the middle-class, and poor people, severely restricting the
ability of human citizens to obtain bankruptcy protection, was halted by the
Goldwater Girl in 2000 when she was campaigning for her carpet-bagged Senate
seat, because the publicity would not have been good for the campaign. Less than a year later, she flipped and voted
in favor of it, so when Slick Hillary takes a position, start a betting pool
for how soon she will change. She was
absent when the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act,
virtually the same as Slick Willy’s version, passed in 2005.
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