They are Quitters!
Sometime ago in the pages of Time Magazine an article introduced America to an idea that had struck fear in the hearts of racial and cultural purist all across the American landscape. Everyone from the Neo Nationalist Skinhead militias to old ladies drinking coffee with their sisters from the Daughters of the Revolution swallowed hard and buried their fingernails from their clenched fists intro their palms as they were reminded of the inevitable truth that in one way or another the color of America was changing. It seems that the bulk of in fluxing legal immigrants are not from Western or even Eastern Europe anymore but Asia, Africa and South America. The Minorities that were less than three percent of the population just a few decades back have now swelled to over twenty percent. African Americans although not increasing disproportionately to the general population have segregated economically into two extremes all but eliminating the once burgeoning black middle class. What is happening here explicated the Time's article is a browning of America. The culture of American cities are now teaming with the smells and sounds of the middle east, the Carib and West Africa. African Americans of affluence have sought to find refuge in historically black cultural bulwarks but those of few means have done what generations past have done grin and bear it.
But other Americans, or should I say, self perceived real Americans have not taken this so quietly. It seems that the America that is, is not the America that was. This is not because it has incurred more financial burdens than it can bear, not because it is refusing to represent the will of the people, not because it is infringing on civil liberties or constitutional rights, not because of the megalithic corporations that seem to be running amok or the national debt that seems to be brought out increasingly by foreign investors. It is not for any of these reasons because if you dig just underneath each of these issue you'll find barely any roots to sustain the monumental proportions that they are expressed to be. America has and will always have a deficit. These are the US Treasury bonds that we so love to include as part of our retirement portfolios. America is still a democracy with elected officials from the federal to the municipal level. Americas civil liberties and constitutional rights have never in history been more adequately represented than in this day and age. Those corporations that we fear have been around in some case for over a century and a half. Americas National debit is mostly Social Security Income to you guessed it Americans.
The fear mongering that prevails in the news today both seemingly liberal and The FOX News Channel (c) are the product of a backlash that has been swelling like a tsunami that had to recede before it crashed upon the shore. From the free love era of the 60's to the seemingly harmonious 70's Disco on thru the 80's, 90's, 00's up to today the era of the quiet docile All American Family taking a back seat was just the receding tide building up strength for the Tidal Wave. Today Governors all across the country are touting the rights of the States over the federal government. In a seeming flood of unrelated issues they are testing to see if they can indeed challenge the Federal Government and win. Some want looser state controlled gun regulations. Some want to seize National Guards and Federal land in their States. But all are acting in the Spirit of the Tea Party movement that say. If we shout loud enough then it must make it true.
The question you dear reader should ask yourself is: Why Now? What is so different today than yesterday? What is most significant is that article I mentioned. What is most significant is that America did not elect it's first black president but that it elected its first multiracial, multicultural and multi- ethnic president. Maybe America is not ready for an African American President yet but it is certainly ready for one who can represent the many facets of this country that have surfaced over the past 40 years and that is the straw that broke the so called conservative camels back.
Lets not be ignorant of the facts. Those that are complaining are not conservatives in the way the rest of us imagine, fiscal, social, political. They are conservatives about the America that no longer is. Dare I say it? Oh! Why the hell not! The perceived racially pure America. They want their pristine undefiled America back and if they can't have it then they will rip this country to shreds. They will break it up politically, socially, economically, environmentally until there is no United States of America. Can you see it now? That is why they lament the US as past history. It is because they do not see a place for themselves of cooperation in America present, so they seek to destroy it. They liked the America where they got to squash all other ethnicity and now that they have to play fare they want to stop playing. They are quitters.