SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS, THUS SAY THE PIGS

“GOP subservient oinking cannot hide the fact that the amassment of more-and-more by fewer-and-fewer has destroyed jobs and increased unemployment.“

by Sam Osborne

It is time for We The People to reject the propaganda of right-wing politicians that serve the interests of those that have come to own the Republican Party and who have pocketed much of the green stuff that is red-ink debt to all Americans.

Though all individuals in this nation daily live and toil within homes and communities and not the halls of government, right-wing newspeak pretends that only a slice of a so-called “private sector” that has been economically blessed with the most will more fairly wield governing power for all than does our hard-fought-for and ensured government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

This is the Republican’s version of the “golden rule”—i.e. those that got the gold rule. On George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the edict of the dictatorial pigs would have read, “All within the private sector are equal but some are more equal than others.”

Sophistry issued to quell rightful objection to this piggish piracy charges that objectors should not engage in “class warfare.” Those that thus toady to the rape of the American people are as dismissive of justifiable concern for liberty and justice for all as was the queen of France at the dawn of their revolt that had been encouraged by the success of the American Revolution and the ideals of the Enlightenment. With a flick of her silk handkerchief Marie Antoinette said, “If they have no bread, let them eat cake.”

In our country, there was no bonfire into which all of the money that constitutes national debt was cast and burned; it went into the pockets of the fewer and increasingly fewer who have been stuffed full of wealth by Republican social engineering. For everyone else it is debt—the majority got the red ink and not the green loot. And GOP subservient oinking cannot hide the fact that the amassment of more-and-more by fewer-and-fewer has destroyed jobs and increased unemployment.

Now it is time to speak out and bring to an end any threat of return to the days of the plantation South when a plutocratic few “haves” contended that they were by God even entitled to own the lives of people. As with Abe Lincoln in the past, we too must now ensure that government of the people, by the people and for the people does not perish from the earth.

With an end to their entitlement of tax breaks, it is time for the privileged few who took the money that is debt to all others start paying it back.

Sam Osborne, former editorial writer and Opinion Page Editor, Iowa City Press-Citizen; former college professor and Business Department chair, Ellsworth Community College; and currently out to pasture drinking too much coffee.  His commentary, The Obstructed View,  appears on this blog occasionally.