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Katie Couric is now One-Sided Against Illegal Immigrants and their Children?

 

Katie Couric is now One-Sided Against Illegal Immigrants and their Children?

Apparently, as I do not watch her and cannot confirm this outrage, Katie Couric has offended Hispanics by reporting about costs and legality issues over illegal immigrant women who have children at taxpayer expense and the associated costs of this action. This was a blunder we are told.

Katie, whose refusal to wash her hair and think for herself, has chosen to state the facts about illegal immigration in the US by the social parasites in Mexico who, after 500 years, cannot rise above crime, sloth, drug addiction and failure. Mexico is the best example of how not to run a government except for perhaps Cuba and North Korea. They deserve a Communist government after the present bozo retires.

 In an incoherent screed by some Hispanic activist[1],  a group who routinely grunts and grabs for US taxes and the right to cast illegal votes, we read:

The CBS newscast that carries her name recently aired a one-sided and inaccurate report about illegal immigrant women who give birth to their children in the United States. The news story challenged the broader constitutional law of birthright citizenship and stated — without providing the correct context — that the births cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars[2]  

Apparently, this Gebe is unaware that many Hispanics make it to the border just in time to give birth and quality for free medical, welfare in several forms, a grand welcome by leftist Democrats and a chance to vote for more free  money for themselves in states that do not require IDs to vote. Apparently, Gebe is unaware that the theft of social security numbers and filing false  federal and state tax returns or not filing them are crimes  They are a burden upon us and need to be paid for their services and both monetary and political terms.

Couric is accused of tarnishing the images of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite  with this slight although Dan Rather is not mentioned. Murrow and Cronkite were/are far left Marxist supplicants who used phony journalism for political ends. This screed is an angry response by some assorted Hispanic Supremacy groups such as La Raza, La Mecha[3] , NCLR and MALDEF, among others. These groups want power and money and are racist in origin. They advocate: "…as Mechistas, we vow to work for the liberation of Aztlan." They are militant, Marxist and their official icon: ”is an eagle holding a machete-like weapon and a stick of dynamite.”[4]

 

These people are Marxist thugs and parasites.

 

So, Katie blundered into some forbidden truth zone that was not sufficiently filtered to make allowances for the ‘truth’ for their Hispanic radical political advocates.

Ted Kennedy must have gone back to the bottle over this incident. He did ask them to ‘help him and his party out.”

Well, we can excuse Katie for unconsciously reporting the facts in her fog of ignorance and advise her to wash her hair and try for another job. This will finish her off.

Why don’t we just put any person of color on welfare and see how wonderful things can be. That will be the test of the George McGovern Theorem.

rycK

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[1] http://www.americanprogressaction.org/events/2008/MartinezGebe.html

[2] Latinos outraged over CBS report

By GEBE MARTINEZ | 4/29/08 8:14 PM EST  

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEChA

[4] http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html

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The NYT Dumbs Down on Energy “Policy” Again.

 

The NYT Dumbs Down on Energy “Policy” Again.

The quest for the solution to capitalism must begin with some way to stall martial, resources and manpower if the left will be able to gain control of everything and redistribute the wealth of the world according to some leftist scheme.

In an ideological fantasy, the pluralist Thomas L. Friedman [1] turns the rusty crank on his socialist vision and finds, as usual, that the United States is in error on all energy matters. The article entitled Dumb as We Wanna Be [2] is as dumb as we could get if we follow this sophistry. He follows his own soggy definition of pluralism, a rare insight he seems to offer us after an intense study of the cultures and economies in places like Bangalore and Shanghai. This adventure prompted him to write the sensational book The World Is Flat gave Friedman new insights into the continuing trends of globalization and the forces. Using the NYT resources as a crude guide to the mandated conclusions before he does any research his notion that the world is somehow ‘flat’ in terms of the economic competition of mature and emerging nations is mere hokum.[3] Essays like this are the fodder for the eternal and obvious conclusion that we need world government and all that. As such, we must take a scalpel to his broad claims and cut out the sour, leftist parts and save them for the garden until they ripen.

He pumps out insane conclusions such as this:

It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy.” [all quotes are from the Friedman article unless   indicated otherwise and emphasis in terms of color, bold or italics are mine.]

This is a joke of course. Nobody agrees on any energy policy. This is a pipe dream that blends into San Francisco dope parlor parlance. Needle stickers have a policy too.

Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer’s travel season. This is not an energy policy.”

Nobody said it was, but this is a TAX CUT and prompts a Pavlovian Drooling Episode from any leftist, and here it is:

When the summer is over, we will have increased our debt to China, increased our transfer of wealth to Saudi Arabia and increased our contribution to global warming for our kids to inherit.”

This is his conclusion, which could be equally applied to the production of cars, hamburgers or toys. Notice the automatic endorsement of the phony Global Warming screeds.[4] Does he want to end free trade? We can always embargo China and India and send them into a depression to avoid an imbalance of debts using this notion.

He twists a situation to fit his ends by ignoring some of the inputs that increase costs:

The McCain-Clinton gas holiday proposal is a perfect example of what energy expert Peter Schwartz of Global Business Network describes as the true American energy policy today: “Maximize demand, minimize supply and buy the rest from the people who hate us the most.”

This is truly amazing. We can wonder how the frantic efforts of our domestic enemies(the left-wing Democrats, their Islamo-Fascist allies,  and their Marxist cheerleaders from Cuba and Venezuela), soaked in white wine and crazed with drugs, to prevent any new drilling, exploration or building of petroleum facilities might have affected the supply? Gee, they won’t allow drilling and now the supply is low? Who would have thought this might happen except for an authentic economist, someone the New York Times has yet to hire or listen to. [5]The BIG LIE here is that this is the leftist policy of the EcoNazis and their determined effort to sandbag our economy with regulations that will stop growth and generate unemployment with a recession or depression. This is all backward. The left likes depression and war and famine and hatred—those bring those votes. Snaildarterism at its best.

But here’s what’s scary: our problem is so much worse than you think. We have no energy strategy. If you are going to use tax policy to shape energy strategy then you want to raise taxes on the things you want to discourage — gasoline consumption and gas-guzzling cars — and you want to lower taxes on the things you want to encourage — new, renewable energy technologies. We are doing just the opposite.”

Here is the undressed and trumpeted tax-and-spend mantra of the far left in verse and song. All this from the phony baloney notions that derive from this ‘strategy’ such as the counterfeit Blue Water Wind Follies [6] that would force the citizens of Delaware to pay $0.11 per kilowatt hour for 25 years plus 2.5% per year increase for some off shore gadgets when we now pay only $0.02-0.03 per kwh now and we could get ONSHORE wind power from many other sources for half the cost of the EcoNazi version. That starts off at a %440 increase for electricity and rises to %715 after two decades. What a deal we get from the drooling leftists!

The Democrats wanted the wind and solar credits to be paid for by taking away tax credits from the oil industry. President Bush said he would veto that. Neither side would back down, and Mr. Bush — showing not one iota of leadership — refused to get all the adults together in a room and work out a compromise. Stalemate. Meanwhile, Germany has a 20-year solar incentive program; Japan 12 years. Ours, at best, run two years.”

The crude assumption is outlined in this notion that money wasted is money well spent as long as it comes from taxes. We could compare this to the doubling of ‘education’ spending in the last 25 years and wonder why there was no improvement in test scores, something the left always responds to with pleas for more money and teachers and accusations of racism. Here, again, the incessant tax mongering by liberals arises as the central issue. We all know Hillary wanted to put a $50,000,000,000 dollar punitive tax on Exxon and that must be thought of as some clever way to lower oil costs even thought Exxon cannot control the price of oil and our government makes more money off the Exxon sales taxes than Exxon makes in profits.

Solar energy, for example,[7] has been a pipe dream for 50 years or more, rivaling fusion and perhaps the celebrated cold fusion and is not efficient. Wind power is only efficient when the wind blows and only some 98% if the US landmass is suitable for such gadgets. Only on Martha’s Vineyard would it work exceedingly well and this project is currently blocked by the Kennedy Klan and his drug-dependent friends.

This current article is a pedestrian-level tautological screed in the manner of sausage-machine mental exercises and the conclusions are always what we expect from a leftist: increase taxes and regulate business and give breaks to third world. Get the parasites at the UN involved in the tax grubbings.

They ought to make rubber stamps for the clichés and hackneyed phrases this guy throws around carelessly and force people to stamp their clothing [or foreheads] every day before they go to work. That would be a ‘political policy’ that would work for the left—we could call it ‘education.’

The World Is Flat only in the fevered minds of the drug-crazed Marxists, the EcoNazis and their head-banging lackeys at the New York Times. And, they didn’t even pass this by Jeremiah Wright or Al Sharpton.

Walter Duranty[8] would be so proud. He had great visions such as this too.

rycK

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Friedman
 
[2] Dumb as We Wanna Be By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Op-Ed Columnist Published: April 30, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/opinion/30friedman.html?hp

[3]Ninety percent of the world's phone calls, Web traffic, and investments are local, suggesting that Friedman has grossly exaggerated the significance of the trends he describes. For example, Pankaj Ghemawat from Foreign Policy magazine states that, "Despite talk of a new, wired world where information, ideas, money, and people can move around the planet faster than ever before, just a fraction of what we consider globalization actually exists". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Flat#Criticisms

[7] “…A trip to Home Depot in 2006 to look at solar power systems for an average house shows that they could supply, at best, 25% of the power consumed in the home, about $600 worth of electricity per year in Mid Atlantic terms. But, this would cost $14,000 to install the solar collectors. That modification requires a 25 year payback period, which does not include financing, which could push it to 40 years. Those kinds of economics make sense to the political hacks at the New York Times. “It’s for the children.” Let us all freak out and bawl about global. The Old Red Lady From the Old Gray Lady Essays Us on Economics and Other Things.

Sunday, January 20, 20084:15 PM

http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/9efbd90a-2b91-4e20-b01b-fe533d6c47fe

[8]From his devotion to Communism, Stalin and propaganda. In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.

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Jeremiah Wright Buries Obama in a Swamp Of Racism.

Jeremiah Wright Buries Obama in a Swamp Of Racism.

 

 In a previous blog, I raised the urgent obligation that we identify a new definition of racism—one that might cover and possible explain some of the contemporary arts, acts and theatre of the current political circus.

 

In a rare agreement with the New  York Times—the Testament to Marxism and its patron saint Walter Duranty[1]—we read some reasonable writings from Bob  Herbert[2] of the Editorial Board. His article is aptly entitled The Pastor Casts a Shadow.

 

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright went to Washington on Monday not to praise Barack Obama, but to bury him.”

 

The Roman paraphrase is well selected and echoes the notions of political character assignation and worse in the politics of the Party of Democrats, now so democratic as we note of late.

 

All but swooning over the wonderfulness of himself, the reverend acts like he is the first person to come up with the idea that blacks too often get the short end of the stick in America, that the malignant influences of slavery and the long dark night of racial discrimination are still being felt today, that in many ways this is a profoundly inequitable society.”[3]

 

This is part of the psychosis of Cryptomisoxeny.[4] A hidden, self-destructive, eternal hatred of some other group produces the mental aberration that acts of racial hatred and discrimination are endearing attributes that foster camaraderie and goodness. A sophist from the shadowy reaches of the social latrines now basks in the spotlight of national attention and this parasite instructs the world on slavery and the attempt by our government to summarily destroy persons of color. His book sales will soar.

 

 The unfortunate fact here is that this bozo actually believes what he says. He probably envisions some clandestine laboratory where the CIA cooks up new germs and other exotic afflictions to cast upon the non-white societies of this planet. AIDS is apparently one of their best inventions.

 

So it’s not like he’s naïve politically. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Forget the gibberish about responding to attacks on the black church. That is not what the reverend’s appearance before the press club was about. He was responding to what he perceives as an attack on him.”

 

And, he earned such attacks.

 

My guess is that Mr. Wright felt he’d been thrown under a bus by an ungrateful congregant who had benefited mightily from his association with the church and who should have rallied to his former pastor’s defense. What we’re witnessing now is Rev. Wright’s “I’ll show you!” tour.”

 

This is the key to understanding the concept of cryptomisoxeny: somebody has broached the pentagram that holds the True Believers in the fold and Senator Obama is that outlaw. Punishment now follows as the notion that the ‘leader’ of the cult has been trashed by a supplicant who refuses to endorse the detailed litany of the system. Obama, we might surmise, should have pounded the lectern in the manner that Jeremiah Wright pounds his dais on his pulpit and cursed whites for their evils.

 

Mr. Obama seems more and more like someone buffeted by events, rather than in charge of them. Very little has changed in the superdelegate count, but a number of those delegates have expressed concern in private over Mr. Obama’s inability to do better among white working-class voters and Catholics.”

 

The good senator might attempt to cure this by selecting an equal pair of Faustian contracts:

 

[1] He can denounce this worthless parasite and self-mesmerized racist for who and what he is or

 

[2] He can embrace the frenzied rants of Jeremiah Wright,  kiss his golden toe ring, and then celebrate and amplify  all the  hate theorems, and the most obscure jots and tittles in the reverend’s screeds.

 

The Yellow Fangs of Clintoonery[5] await this outcome. As Perot took down one Bush’s system, this Neanderthal racist may push Obama out of the way and enthrone Hillary as the Queen Bee.

 

Senator Obama now faces some of the worst choices that any politician could endure. Here, his attempt to run the race sans the race issue has been ruined by ideological racism and he is trapped. He cannot refute the black ideological mantras that add the crucial 3-5 points to the national votes and risk those supporters staying home in revulsion of an Uncle Tom. He cannot, alternately, embrace the racism of the Wright gang including Calypso Louie Farrakhan and other radicals.

 

The political solution to the problem, obviously, is for Hillary to bow out, acknowledge that Obama ran a good race-- all for the good of the party and all that hooey. Fat chance of that!

 

Obama’s middle case of refuting bits and pieces of Wright’s Black Liberation Theology [6]is dicey at best, but probably the best path forward.

 

Hill and Bill have some $300,000,000 riding on this contest and they are desperate. Hillary will attempt to hang Wright’s rancid image around Obama’s neck if she can. She has done worse.

 

Now, we can expect McCain to ‘reach across the isle’ and begin to embrace illegal immigration, again, or wonder about more tax hikes as that would finesse both Clintons and Obama.

 

He is just unreliable enough to try that. He can always embrace reparations.

 

What a sour set of political choices! For the voters, this is like choosing the three leopards with the most artistic spots to start to eat you first.

 

rycK

 

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[1] From his devotion to Communism, Stalin and propaganda. In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.

[2]

The Pastor Casts a Shadow

By  BOB HERBERT Op-Ed Columnist Published: April 29, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/opinion/29herbert.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

 

[3] The Pastor Casts a Shadow  ibid.

[4]  A new word.  See. An Urgent Need for a New Definition of Racism. [Cryptomisoxeny?]

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/04/25/an_urgent_need_for_a_new_definition_of_racism_[cryptomisoxeny].thtml

 

[6] http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/04/28/obama-wright-theology-oped-cx_hra_0428blackqanda.html

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Whining about Taxes by the New York Times: Revision #476

 

Whining about Taxes by the New York Times: Revision #476

We can all understand why the far left is utterly reliant upon grabbing their money from taxes.[1] Simply stated, they have no other source. Leftist government is a know failure on this planet. The left demands the highest throne on the totalitarian pyramid where they can direct as much wealth as possible to their ideological ends, which means poverty for all but the elite in most cases.[2] The social parasites who claim to have solutions to society’s problems scream and bawl for money for the ‘poor’[3] while they wink at Fidel Castro as he spends $800 per pound for Italian cured ham and bark out the song that he provides healthcare for all for a mere $230 per person per year.[4] As such, we expect no end to the lamentations and pleadings and may only expect the mechanical tautological screeds to be generated by the New York Times, the tribute to Walter Duranty[5], and forced upon us weekly. [6]

Today’s hokum and fluff is yet a simple Milligan’s Stew[7] of whatever could be scraped off the kitchen floors or reclaimed from the weaker cockroaches to beg for alms from the nasty capitalists. The author, Paul Krugman[8], the most famous non-economist in North America, has offered his maudlin whimper, pleas and predictions of doom if we don’t frantically raise taxes. We can save the planet by such actions.[9]    Which said and pondered upon for a few seconds, makes us wonder why they don’t just double taxes in California and achieve instant prosperity?

The next sausage pops out of the string as:

And a look at what Mr. McCain says about taxes shows the same combination of irresponsibility and double-talk that, back in 2000, foreshadowed the character of the Bush administration.”[10]

Pure fluff and could have been written 8 years ago about any successor to the Republican control of the White House.

First, Mr. McCain proposes making almost all of the Bush tax cuts, which are currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2010, permanent. (He proposes reinstating the inheritance tax, albeit at a very low rate.)” [11]

 This is so old.

According to the nonpartisan TaxPolicyCenter, the overall effect of the McCain tax plan would be to reduce federal revenue by more than $5 trillion over 10 years. That’s a lot of revenue loss — enough to pose big problems for the government’s solvency.”[12]

This is NOT TRUE because there is no accounting of growth due to tax cuts. Krugman is loath to account for any form of growth from investments induced by such polities.[13] [14]

There is a ‘summation’ or some kind of yodel of ignorance as the author winds up his frustration:

If truth be told, the McCain tax plan doesn’t seem to embody any coherent policy agenda. Instead, it looks like a giant exercise in pandering — an attempt to mollify the G.O.P.’s right wing, and never mind if it makes any sense.”[15]

The policy is to keep the leftist’s slimy claws and fetid drool away from the nation’s wealth, which they will quickly consume if they get the chance. We can always call on Krugman to tell us what happened to the $600 bln we spend yearly on phony social programs, to expound of the effects of busing on education. What happened to the $5 trillion we wasted on welfare and the Great Society and HUD and War on poverty and busing? Why do we double spending on ‘education’ has his no effect on either the test scores or the drop out rates?? The answer is liberalism: they want such programs to fail so they can grunt and grab for even higher taxes. Failure = success in their warped scenarios.

It has been stated in more explicit terms than printed here that :Liberalism is like probing a baboon’s sphincter for diamonds. There is little chance for success, but there several opportunities for anger and frustration. [16]

Here, the NYT’s editorial writers become the restless probers in a hopeless quest for new ways to waste our tax monies.

 We thank the New York Times for another tautological screed on taxation.

rycK

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[1] There Is No End To The Tax-Whoring By Climate Control Lunatics.

Posted by rycK on Friday, April 04, 200810:43:11 AM

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/04/04/there_is_no_end_to_the_tax-whoring_by_climate_control_lunatics.thtml

And they Whine On about Socialized Medicine.

Posted by rycK on Friday, April 04, 20089:33:10 AM

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/04/04/and_they_whine_on_about_socialized_medicine.thtml

[2]The Economy: More Gloom and Doom from the New York Times. Raise Taxes!!

Posted by rycK on Friday, March 14, 200811:56:25 AM

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/14/the_economy_more_gloom_and_doom_from_the_new_york_times_raise_taxes!!.thtml

[3]The New York Times Moans about the Poor, as Usual. Moan # 14,598,246.

Posted by rycK on Tuesday, March 11, 200812:40:55 PM

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/11/the_new_york_times_moans_about_the_poor,_as_usual_moan__14,598,246.thtml

[5] From his devotion to Communism, Stalin and propaganda. In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.

[7] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mulligan+stew

[8]Krugman of the New York Times Slaps His own Face over a New Theory to Raise Taxes.

Posted by rycK on Monday, March 10, 200811:19:13 AM

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/10/krugman_of_the_new_york_times_slaps_his_own_face_over_a_new_theory_to_raise_taxes.thtml

[9]Trolling for Stooges: The New York Times Endorses Carbon Baloney Auctions

Posted by rycK on Saturday, March 15, 200811:57:57 AM

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/15/trolling_for_stooges_the_new_york_times_endorses_carbon_baloney_auctions.thtml

[10] Bush Made Permanent   By PAUL KRUGMAN Op-Ed Columnist Published: April 28, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/opinion/28krugman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin.

[11] Bush Made Permanent   Ibid.

[12] Bush Made Permanent   Ibid.

[14]Posted by rycK on Friday, February 22, 200811:16:42 AM

The New York Times Calls for More Taxes [What else would they do?].

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/02/22/the_new_york_times_calls_for_more_taxes_[what_else_would_they_do].thtml

[15] Bush Made Permanent   Ibid.

[16] http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?13@891.kDWxbX3mc8s.7@.773b3836/1690

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An Urgent Need for a New Definition of Racism. [Cryptomisoxeny?]

 

An Urgent Need for a New Definition of Racism. [Cryptomisoxeny?]

 

There are several variants of racism that infect or influence our societies that are politically and socially useful to gain power and are essentially universal in application and theory.  All defined social and political groups practice overt racism. The definitions of racism are always self-serving, frequently self-laudatory, and have no general definition or universal application other than to enhance the powers of its designers or allies and/or heaping ridicule upon opponents for political gain. The current definitions seem to imply an inherent imbalance of power among several groups, defined in detail by the definer, which is self-serving. Thus, the ‘rich’ are rich because they robed the ‘poor.’ Any observed or perceived imbalance serves as a proof of guilt and social or economic misconduct. An excellent example of this is the use of the term McCarthyism [1] which first justifies and then reverses the direction of the smear tactics used against the 50s era senator and is now universally used in a blanket mode to reproach criticism of the left or as a attack mechanism against their right-wing enemies. McCarthy was first smeared and then labeled as the smearer. McCarthyism was an expeditious political construct designed to stop his investigations of the Executive Branch, mostly the Department of State. He terminated the careers of several communist sympathizers[2] and was a threat to both Republicans and Democrats of the Eisenhower and Truman administrations. Similarly, if an actual crook, such as Mumia Abu-Jamal[3], is properly termed a crook this might just be mechanically labeled as an example of acute McCarthyism or racism. Mumia is considered an intellectual and a freedom fighter by many. His innocence is blindly accepted by millions. Facts are irreverent in politics.

In conducting an historical study on this topic we can identity no isolated regions in this world, nor are there any known slots of provable history, when the predominance of the practices of prejudice and racism were not found to be intrinsic components of the firmament of our nations, tribes, political groups and clans. Tribalism as practiced in the ancient world, the clans of China and India, Scotland, Africa and with the Native Americans in the Western Hemisphere [and everywhere else] are prime examples of how groups respond and react to different groups with fixed views and carefully structured feelings. Political parties in the US, as elsewhere, exhibit traits of tribalism. These attributes of tribalism and racism are the fruits of a combination of social education and political indoctrination and are valuable as a form of nuclear glue that gives groups their cohesiveness. Members of other groups are thus assessed and judged through preassembled mental filters in a manner described by Immanuel Kant.[4]

Kant’s description of a “Categorical Imperative “is very instructive in this search for a better term, because in that definition the outcome of the imperative is predetermined to be essentially ‘good.’ Ferreting out racists is good; racism is bad. An accusation of racism directed at some political target thus magically absolves the accuser of the identical blemish and instills a feeling of self goodness and a social superiority because a ‘racist’ has been properly identified and exposed. This process differs significantly from hypocrisy and is not really even remotely related in practice. Tossing the racist labels toward your enemies endears you to your friends and gives comfort to your group. Hypocrisy cuts through groups in a different dimension.

A reading of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence gives us an insight into tribalism in the Arab Revolt of 1917–18 during World War 1 in North Africa. Here the assembled tribes were fighting a near hopeless war against the Turks and Germans yet the combatants prioritized the legions of ancient tribal hatreds among themselves over the common effort to contest their mutual enemy. The slightest incident between different tribal members would rekindle the fires of tribal hatred dating back centuries. Such a trivial episode might provoke an instant battle among members of different tribes and create new and fresh reasons for inventing new vendettas. Lawrence himself had to ‘solve’ a problem of an inter-tribal killing in his military group by executing the guilty person who murdered a member of a different tribe. This death sentence was mandated by the aggregate tribal notion that the guilty person must, indeed,  be executed, but that his own tribe would not do this and any other tribal member who was willing to bring justice to the crime would merely generate another reason for future retaliation. A solution was needed. Lawrence finally executed the man and all the tribes acclaimed that justice was done! It was okay that an infidel shaped the justice in this case. The simple occurrence of conflict between the tribal members—whatever the origin or the outcome—was the ultimate proof that the other side was guilty. Identity politics is thus an all encompassing mixed form of tribalism, bigotry and racism and is deeply embedded in most elements of this political world. This is not lunacy, but a prearranged form of social reasoning. Everybody seems to be happy with identity politics as long as they can agree with the tenets of the particular polices defined in a given slate of issues. It works even better when your enemies hold the opposite views. Hate and racism aid this behavior.

We can inspect the varied definitions of racism, ideological racism, and intuitional racism   developed by David Duke, Pol Pot, Nelson Mandela, Tojo, Stokely Carmichael, Karl Marx, Joe Stalin, John Kerry, Eldridge Cleaver, Bull Connors, Bill Moyers, Angela Davis, Osama bin Laden, the Clintons[5]