When I first wrote about Asymetrical Access to the Press, my intent was to shine a bit of light on the mechanism by which groups of political rivals are manipulated and kept at each other’s throats to the great benefit of colonial/occupier power structures.

It has recently dawned on me that the American people are caught in the same bind that so complicated the struggles that I wrote about.

I’ve been very frustrated of late, by the seemingly unbeatable tactics of America’s ruling elites which keep people at the bottom of the economic pile at each other’s throats, principally by wielding a monopolistic control over the media to perpetrate the myth of a population riven by a vast intractable divide, each side relying on the efforts of their representatives chosen from one of two major parties to save them from inevitable predation at the hands of the ‘other’.

Please excuse a small digression;

Kevin Phillips, in his book The Cousins War, does much to trace the origins of one of the historic rifts that has provided a convenient foundation upon which to build this incredibly useful myth of a country divided. Phillips’ book does much to explain the origins of our own Civil War and the divide between Americans, North and South. It’s well worth the read.

Back to the point at hand;

I had been wondering how we Americans could avoid being driven down the road to civil war by the likes of Glen Beck and Rush, and I have written on these boards that I was sure we would have to find a way to engage the people we call Tea-Baggers very soon in order to both diffuse a much too volatile situation and to facilitate the fight against the pirates who are busy stealing our future.

The very first thing working-class progressives have to realize IMO is that our own cherished perspective, that those who are committed to stealing our future are exclusively Republicans, who must be attacked, and that the antidote to this problem lies with the Democrats who must be supported at all costs.

The very first thing that working-class conservative Americans must understand is that the enemy is not embodied in the Democratic party and it’s constituents, and the republican party has no interest in you and yours, other than which way you vote.

The American people, conservative and progressive, are hobbled by these false and self-defeating perspectives, and we are being manipulated to hate each other because the villains who are busy stealing our future know that they are safe as long as we are fighting amongst ourselves.

A people who are to busy hating each other cannot, and will never, come together to defend their common interests.

You cannot imagine the relief that rolled like a wave over my mind upon reading that Jane had found a way to short-circuit both the conspiracy of silence that surrounds the machinations of the pirates, and the self-imposed right-left perspective that offers a convenient frame our for our political struggles, but also chains us to a debilitating anger that ultimately hinders our efforts to regain control of our futures.

I was despairing over our seemingly hopeless situation, and wondering where we were ever going to find an opening in the impenetrable armor provided to the pirates by the MSM, when much to my surprise, we find that Rahm Emanuel, the Democratic Prince of Darkness, Karl Rove’s democratic doppelganger, is involved in a monumental scam and a feverish and ongoing cover-up.

The Republicans did not wreck our future by themselves, and the Democrats did not sink our country by giving it away in exchange for the votes of people who don’t look us.

The two major parties are utterly corrupt, bought and paid for by the people who are busy robbing us blind, and they maintain control by encouraging us to fight with one-another.

The only thing the pirates fear is that one day we will come to our senses, stop fighting each other and make common cause in putting an end to corporate control of our government.

We are not two peoples divided by irreconcilable differences; we are one people intentionally incited to hatred by those who would control us so as to rob us.

Jane, you are a national treasure, thank you.