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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

X-ray image of a pregnant cat with six kittens.

Now imagine a nation-wide "X-ray" of an entire, pregnant nation, usually bulging with a distributed, fetal Middle Class, the output not just of sexual-recombination, but also of "cultural recombination" on a massive and massively parallel scale.

Now image Neo-Liberals aborting that entire fetal Middle Class.

And everyone else too, in the process.

Right to Cultural Life, anyone?

Or do you really want Free Trade in Middle-Class-aborting methods - practiced by "elite" social parasites? Sounds to me like class-based, forced eugenics masquerading as orthodox macro-economics, with any surviving MC-preemies doomed to permanent sharecropper status, until our culture declines and starves.

Herding sheeple to fleecings.

The Control Frauds and their Neo-Liberal economists are definitely working together.

(Thanks to Russ Huntley for help modifying the image.)

This message comes courtesy of MANLI.  "Mother's Against Neo-Liberal Idiocy."

Robert Parry — The White Man’s Last Tantrum?

American pundits are missing the bigger point about the Republican shutdown of the U.S. government and the GOP’s threatened default on America’s credit. The real question is not what policy concessions the Tea Partiers may extract, but rather can a determined right-wing white minority ensure continuation of white supremacy in the United States

For years, political scientists have been talking about how the demographic changes in the United States are inexorably leading to a Democratic majority, with Hispanics and Asian-Americans joining African-Americans and liberal urban whites to erode the political domains of white conservatives and white racists.

But those predictions have always assumed a consistent commitment to the democratic principle of one person, one vote – and a readiness of Republicans to operate within the traditional standards of democratic governance. But what should now be crystal clear is that those assumptions are faulty.

Instead of accepting the emergence of this more diverse and multi-cultural America, the Right – through the Tea Party-controlled Republicans – has decided to alter the constitutional framework of the United States to guarantee the perpetuation of white supremacy and the acceptance of right-wing policies.

In effect, we are seeing the implementation of a principle enunciated by conservative thinker William F. Buckley in 1957: “The white community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically.” Except now the Buckley rule is being applied nationally.

• Voter suppression
• Gerrymandering
• Filibustering
• Disenfranchisement of Washington, DC residents
• Resurgence of Jim Crow justified on Libertarian grounds
• Rightist Supreme Court and much of judiciary
• Prison system and prison privatization with quotas
• Well-funded right-wing propaganda machine fed by right-wing think tanks
• Rump politics
• Hostage taking

Truthout | News Analysis
The White Man’s Last Tantrum?
Robert Parry, Consortium News

Liberalism holds that all are created equal. Conservatism holds that some are better than others.

Certainly a white men's tantrum, but probably not the last. The "traditionalists" are going to fight demographic change (read 'loss of privilege') tooth and nail until they are beaten or die off.

What is also concerning is the polarization of the white West and the non-white rest. Anyone with knowledge of the life sciences knows that there is something visceral about this that unless controlled with lead to deadly conflict over which genes will continue and which won't.

See also:

AlterNet
Understanding the Culture of White Right-Wing Rage That Produced the Govt. Shutdown
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove and the other so-called Beltway pragmatists of the Republican Party have relied on angry white people for political victories for decades. They placated them and pandered to them and fed them an extensive line of bullshit, and absolutely could not afford to alienate them, but were scared of them the whole time. (Many Republican operatives will tell you, way off the record, that the Republican base is crazy.) Now those white insurrectionists have risen up and taken their former leaders prisoner, which carries a certain poetic justice. They “want their country back.” Failing that, they want to let the fire burn.