Blacklash

I am reading a remarkable book by a remarkable black American woman - I doubt seriously that she wants to be known as a hyphenated American; a gutsy, no-holds-barred advocate of individual initiative and limited government.  (She has been called by her detractors on the Left by every name in the book, except for what she really is: brave.  Courageous.  Her own woman.)  Her name is Deneen Borelli, and she deserves all the success she has had in life, because she earned it, the hard way.

The bok is entitled 'Blacklash', with the subtitle: 'How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation'.  She is indignant at how corrupt politicians are using her people - i.e., in this instance, her racial class (she is a member of other classes as well, economic and social and so forth) - as cannon fodder in their political wars, in a way that keeps them in a dependency state, mentally, economically, and politically ('Vote for me and I'll  get you goodies from the gummint').

But, let's face it: there's plenty of blame for the current miserable state of the nation to go around.  The misnamed 'middle class welfare' phenomenon (it is really the big boys behind their infantry at work and play) has helped lead to Democrat Party politicians convincing their natural constituency - 'the little guy' - that it was okay, even de rigueur - their 'entitlement' - to get theirs too, while the getting was good; including going on welfare as a way of life - a handout, rather than a hand up.  The boys with bucks scamming the system led to others deciding to do the same thing.

And did the country learn nothing from the Savings & Loan debacle of the late '80s (which I read about while living in Scotland, and from which information began in particular to fear for my country, with the money power beginning to take over in spades), when Reagan was the frontman for The Boys with Toys who succeeded in eliminating regulations that had kept them from gambling big and letting the taxpayers pick up the tab when their deals went south?  Privatize the profits and socialize the losses - and here we are again, with the same sort of mentality at work; in particular as fallout from the '08 meltdown.

It's time for a change, alright.  And not just on one side of the political aisle.  

A pox on both their houses.

We need real men running things.  And women.  Like Deneen Borelli.

Go, you girl; go.

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(Next up:  The State of the Nation Parts I & II.  Since I have mentioned the subject in here, it seems appropriate time to get to those jottings from my retirement reflection.)