THE TRAGEDY OF A MANIPULATED COMMUNITY.

        

I just saw Maxine Waters ramble about impeaching president Trump; she says it's her mission. I thought the mission for this Castro loving black woman was to secure a brighter future for her community and press, extort, blackmail or whatever she had to do to ANY president in order to reach that goal. NO!!! She says that's not her mission; she says her mission is to impeach the incumbent; so we're paying her not to legislate or to improve anything but to be the thug of the white elite that runs her party in shambles (not that the Republicans are an example of unity). How much Mrs Waters makes?; what kind of health insurance she has? What are her conditions when she wants to invest in the stock market? How has she impacted the lives of millions of African Americans in the many years she has been in Congress? We all say that a totalitarian regime can be identified by the longevity in power of those in high positions; isn't it time this lady retires and leaves her place to another African American less keen on pleasing the white masters and more interested in his or her own community?

By the way; she said that she had no time to respond to Bill O'Reilly or Bill Ayres (who left Fox months ago) because they had had to pay settlements for sexual harassment. Boy with so many Bills I thought for a moment she was talking about Bill (Bubba) Clinton; the womanizer in Chief. Someone must order her to do her homework. Mrs Waters went on to praise Hillary Clinton for her role as an advocate for black women; as if it hadn't been clear enough in the last election that the American people did not exactly view the former First Lady as the best example of a modern wife. Arrogance, character assassination of any woman who dared denounce her husband's advances and the demonizing of anyone who thought differently as well as enduring any humiliation as long as she could be president makes Mrs Clinton the farthest individual from what I would dream our black sisters to be. 

It is conspicuous how the Democrats use John Lewis, Elijah Cummings and particularly Maxine Waters to deviate our attention from any openings the current president makes to the African American community. They talk about bigotry but they show no scruples in putting their black fellow party members as shields. The so called black leaders waste precious time they could devote to press for real victories following the orders of the "man" within their party. The current state of affairs is by no stretch of imagination the dream MLK shared with all of us in his famous speech; hatred at all costs, a silent civil war and the vicious attack on anything alien to their agenda.

It seems unlikely that the left loonies manage to impeach the president; but whether they do or not is irrelevant for Jamal and Taisha. They will inevitably return every evening to their poor neighborhood; less hopeful than yesterday and burdened with debt and lack of alternatives while the money supposedly allocated to improve their lives is used elsewhere God knows with what purposes. Their false leaders instead will return to their comfortable mansions filled with huge flat screen television sets in which they replay over and over the same worn out videos of their incendiary speeches and undo brick by brick this magnificent castle they once swore to help defend. 

POLITICAL RELATIVITY

During commercials in a set yesterday, the anchorman (a good friend of mine), made a valid point: he claimed that the Democrats, labeled as the left in the US, would be to the right of the Spanish Partido Popular, the right wing party in that European nation. And the anchorman was right. It's all relative and our criteria depend on what we compare to what. Most people used to say that America was a nation with two right wing parties only that one outrighted the other one.

I personally don't have a problem with a strong Democratic Party; actually, I'm convinced it is healthier for our country to have two robust and agile political groups that alternate and "contain" one another; a predominance of one upon the other would inevitably lead to a weaker democracy. The devil, however, is in the fellow travelers the Democrats have chosen. In order to secure votes they have associated with trouble makers, people that put on a mask to attend a "peaceful" rally, and loonies who wave the flag of the former Soviet Union while their leaders try to impeach the president based precisely on his alleged association with a former KGB thug. 

Even more serious, African American elected officials like Maxine Waters waste time her constituents pay for doing the dirty job for the white elite of her party instead of focusing on genuine and tangible improvement of the African American community. The right path for them to follow would be to press the new president to the limit in order to put forth initiatives that instead of entitlement and food stamps, crime and disfranchisement, could finally create opportunities and make a difference in the lives of millions of black Americans. But they do not care about a more educated community since it could imply the end of their political careers.

This explosive mixture of opportunism, manipulation and prefabricated narrative is what makes possible the sordid dichotomy that places the Democratic Party to the right of a European right wing party in theory, but pushes it dangerously to the left of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) for all practical purposes. What honest Democrats fail to surmise is that somewhere along the journey their new fellow travelers will merciless and viciously kick them off the train.

ANONYMOUS VICTIM. NEXT !!!

Juan Francisco Tellechea Pulido arrived in Mexico City with his tourist visa in 1950. He married a Mexican national and shortly afterwards he had his first child. The family then traveled to Cuba where he tried to make ends meet for two years, but seeing no improvement to their situation they decided to pack their luggage and go back to Mexico. Upon arriving at the port of Veracruz with his pregnant wife and two children he was detained because he lacked a Mexican visa. He was swiftly sent to prison. After a few days he escaped and joined his family; then Mr Tellechea started his personal tragedy. Whenever he found employment the former DIP (Direccion de Investigaciones Policiales) caught him and sent him to prison. Even though he had two Mexican children he could never obtain a work permit or a residency.

In 1957 his wife gave birth to Ivonne Tellechea Pliego, whom I first met in the Christmas of 1980 when she traveled to Cuba as a tourist; Ivonne; though born in Mexico could not secure a passport until she was 25; she was issued a re-entry permit and was subject to lengthy interrogations whenever she returned to her own country. She vividly remembers one occasion when she was taken "hostage" by the Mexican authorities to force her father to turn himself in. The neighboring houses were covered with snipers as if it were an effort to capture a drug lord.

Juan Francisco Tellechea Pulido, a fellow Cuban, died on January 1st 1995. No public apology has been made by the Mexican government, no letter of regret has been mailed to his children; he is just a bundle of yellowish papers in some obscure Mexican office or probably just one more name in binary language that conveniently covers that other face of immigration that Mr Jorge Ramos and the bourgeois communists so zealously keep from the public opinion. No Cuban flags are waved in his honor nor in honor of so many unknown Cuban Franciscos, no demonstrations at El Zocalo and no media coverage; even martyrdom is biased these days. 

BOURGEOIS COMMUNISM IV

The collapse of the communist bloc proved to be a double edged sword; it was an overdue act of justice for millions of people but after a few victory laps and millions of uncorked champagne bottles it showed us its ugliest face: the world stability no longer depended on the communication between "two masters". One of them was dead and the other was too busy celebrating to realize what was coming. A tragedy like 9/11 wouldn't have been conceivable in the two bloc world. America could no longer rely on Moscow to maintain the equilibrium that, albeit precariously, had kept the monster of violence away from home. 

The reader must not be under the illusion that what we called the west was a handful of nuns gone on a picnic; whilst the alternative to democracy is chaos and poverty it would be suicidal to ignore how many times we have thrown down governments, plotted to assassinate foreign leaders, failed to foresee what was best for us in the long run, waged burdensome and useless wars and so many other unnameable sins. What is worst, more often than not our deeds have not even proved beneficial in the end. To make matters worse, with the enhancement of our world after the collapse of the USSR we have grown to be a sort of acephalous octopus with hundreds of uncontrollable tentacles with the most diverse objectives and goals. While the enemy is united despite its inherent discrepancies we are divided by a fake unity that exists only in theory. Such was the scenario when our powers that be decided to send an African American to the White House, but not just any African American; there was a uniqueness to this event: he had to seem a factor of change, of modernity, a product of the new technologies, of a united and racially mixed America. In a way, Barrack Hussein Obama had to be the Ronald Wilson Reagan of the left.

Much has been speculated as to which group of interests led to Obama's victory. My goal is to raise awareness among as many human beings as possible of the new guise worn by the old enemy. I won't risk the effectiveness of these articles on a history wild goose chase that remains way beyond my intellectual capabilities, but even my most naive readers know no human being gets the top job in the land without the blessing of a certain group or spectrum of groups.  In my view Obama marks the coronation of the new American and, hence, of the new western democracy:

1- Tolerance as a screen behind which our world kept being chipped away.

2- Diversity as long as the "diverse" toed the line.

3- Demonizing of the wealthy; conveniently hiding the fact that the whole attempt was financed by "some" wealthy; the kind of wealthy that wants the government to take charge once they have infiltrated it with their people; most wealthy will get busted but they hopefully won't: risky gambit but avarice has no limits. 

4- Intoxication of academia, the arts and the media with the "progressive" rhetoric so that the public opinion gradually prepares for a new order: more bureaucracy, less accountability, such a dense and viscous substance beyond which our perception is impaired

5- An incurable sense of guilt; a relentless bombardment with news and views of hardships and tragedies elsewhere, conveniently omitting our own; thus, the role of America becomes that of aiding the needy and sheltering the poor at such a pace that two decades would bring about the defacing of the nation and a shift on the values and goals that had kept us as the most powerful nation on earth for decades.

6- To comply with the objectives above the first African American president could not do the logical thing: start once and for all the conversation to close the gap that still remains between a large portion of his community and the rest of America. He could fiddle the issue; he could even mention the issue from time to time, but he could in no way, shape or form address the issue constructively, let alone use the prestige of his office to begin a forward motion. An isolated, disfranchised and even bitter African American community was paramount to the final goal of dismembering our nation from within.

7- Gramsci could not have dreamed a better scenario and Berlinguer would even wince at the sight of anarchists, communists, socialists, liberals, and honest center left individuals united and destroying the very foundations of the western society. The ingenuity of the tactic lies on the fact that no anti American slogans are chanted; all is done precisely in the name of OUR America; based on the principles stated once and again by our Founding Fathers; just take a comma out here and place it there, the very same phrase with a slight variation of punctuation means exactly the opposite. A revolution of semantics and equivocal lexicon as the sheath of a razor sharp dagger destined to sever the vital organs of the "capitalist beast". 

8- The first black American president became the point of fracture beyond which anyone became a bigot and and fascist; criticizing the president was an attack of America as a nation. The different elites of all walks of life rallied behind the president, but for all the complacency and self serving smiles in most quarters no love poured from the enemies of our nation. Weakened in the domestic front the USA showed no stamina to counter its foreign rivals; one could even think that we had lost the Cold War; while we picked funny flowers and sang tunes of peace and rivers that endlessly flowed into a sea of love our enemies felt emboldened and challenged us in no equivocal terms. TO BE CONTINUED...

BOURGEOIS COMMUNISM III

The 70's and early 80's brought a period of "stagnation " as compared with the chaotic 60s. The social events occurred on a slow motion fashion and within the boundaries of the Yalta "doctrine"; so we witnessed the Carnation Revolution in Portugal and the decolonization of Angola, Mozambique and other Third World nations. The Soviets swiftly jumped at the chance and were able to place their allies in most key places; "Lusitania", however, followed a different path and after several months of power struggling it remained in the west. In hindsight one could speculate that neither of the two superpowers wanted to rock the boat and had reached a tacit agreement by virtue of which the former colonies were allowed to try a populist course while the European nation remained a western country; be that as it may and despite Castro's flagrant meddling in Africa, the vital interests of the West were never in serous jeopardy. 

In the mid 80's the death of three Party chiefs and Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power brought a more realistic approach to the deadwood infested bureaucracy in the USSR; once again anything could and would be done in order to salvage the system; the new face was a tactical maneuver within the same strategy, but the Soviet empire had been erected upon marshy land and it inevitably collapsed. For many of us it was the end of the red menace, but actually it was only the beginning of a new era; the Cold War had inoculated the west with a lethal dose of a deadly virus: self destruction.

Russia would later emerge from the debris of the USSR; the triumphalism created by the so-called demise of communism would keep the west off guard for a few years, long enough for the virus to get into its bloodstream and ironically vindicate the patient toil of thousands of KGB operatives 

The splintering of the communist nightmare would turn into hundreds of short bad dreams. Complacency and economic bonanza combined with a double talk rhetoric would continue to push the west to the abyss. The new century brought the condemnation of the right and the stereotyping of anything and everything conservative. No mention of the dictatorship of the proletariat but Gramsci's class alliances re emerged. All of a sudden the crimes of communism blurred. What really mattered was to depict capitalism as evil, to soften the lexicon to such a low that concepts like "self made man" or "rich" became blasphemies. If one was wealthy it was NEVER due to one's own efforts but due to the efforts of the "community". Suppression of individuality and exacerbation of collectivism.

A new breed of "progressive billionaires" started pulling the strings and they galvanized a huge sector of the middle class that once again was ready to abandon the certainty of the evil they knew only to embark on a journey to places unknown. Before long the pride of Americana ushered by Ronald Reagan faded into a collective and tenacious guilt complex. Success and wealth became a viability as our nation prepared for a milestone appointment with history: the election of the first African American president. TO BE CONTINUED...

TOO MUCH V.S. TOO LITTLE

The first few days of Mr Trump's presidency have been "lively" to say the least. The far left would criticize him even if he acted like a saint, but one cannot deny that the president has served gaffes to his detractors on a silver platter. Few people insist on being objective these days; you create a rumor; spread it, recruit a few accomplices to help and ABRACADABRA!!!; the damned thing becomes an absolute truth. It happens in both sides; in lieu of facts let's just invent them, the hell with decorum and moral standards; ratings and winning at all costs are here to stay. Let's keep the average American busy sorting through this huge pile of crap so that he or she forgets how drastically the quality of their lives has decreased. 

Amid this circus showbiz reaffirms its position as the third political party that for all practical purposes functions as an appendix of the Democrats; it embraces all just causes and calls all those who don't share their views deplorable; not part of the arts and bigots. It complacently awards itself all kinds of prizes, busts, statues and medals as if they were not partly responsible for the violence in our lives. Their movies, their music, the simplification of "the arts" and the edulcoration of our tragedies put them among the bad guys but who cares? There's this extravagant president who used to be part of them to take all the blame.

After a long campaign I came to fear Trump's thin skin, short fuse and protagonist impulses might cause us trouble down the road. He hasn't changed much; actually in some respects he childishly remains in campaign mode and forgets that he doesn't belong to himself anymore but to all Americans. For all the left's outcry and whining our president is putting together a decent team that could steadily hold the helm and steer the vessel off the abyss, whether he will let them work in full autonomy is the big question. Will he lead the band or play each and every instrument ?.

Eight years of inaction; apologies and denial pushed a large segment of the electorate to the point of exhaustion, Mr Obama's weakness, hesitation and aloof presence in the world affairs indeed hurt America; so we chose the opposite version. Will Trump's omnipresence  work where Obama's absenteeism failed?. Will the mogul from Queens  be able to tone down his rhetoric and lower his toughness to a "political" level without necessarily becoming a traditional politician?

BOURGEOIS COMMUNISM II

In the previous chapter; we identified the attempts made throughout history to keep the utopia alive; 1968 was a tumultuous year but the need for change undermined both the west and the communist bloc. Alexander Dubcek, the newly elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, applied some reforms in an effort to put a human face to a totalitarian regime; after diplomatic pressure failed the Soviet leadership sent troops of the Warsaw Pact to "normalize" the small Central European country. As usual, the west limited its response to political gestures and symbolic press coverage; this hasty decision, however, caused a fracture within the hitherto increasing segment of academics, artists, students and blue collar workers who felt at odds with the status quo in the capitalist societies. It also cost Fidel Castro a sizable portion of his revolutionary prestige and irreversibly damaged his image as a Maverick communist. The "indomitable" Comandante, trapped by the dilemma between his own survival and remaining the immaculate leader of the Third World chose the former and after juggling with revolutionary rhetoric for more than a half hour he swallowed his pride and publicly supported the Kremlin's actions. The US Communist Party, whatever that political specter may be, also gave its irrelevant blessing to the invasion. Ironically enough it was Nicolae Ceausescu's finest hour since he publicly condemned the violent  meddling in Czechoslovakia's internal affairs; Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha predictably joined the voices against Moscow.

The Italian and the Spanish communist parties had been for sometime working on yet another attempt to avoid the demise of communism; aware of how different their world was from the one Lenin had lived in and mindful of the effectiveness and celerity of modernization in their respective countries, they had concluded that the Soviet way was not their way, that a third or a fourth route needed to be found; standing ovations in Moscow did not translate into votes in the elections in Italy nor did they dent the body of Franco's improving economy in Spain. The invasion of Czechoslovakia was the straw that broke the camel's back. As author Christopher Hitchens put it: "What became clear, however, was that there was no longer something that could be called the world Communist movement. It was utterly, irretrievably, hopelessly split. The main spring had broken. And the Prague Spring had broken it."

Despite the "atrocities" perpetrated by the Americans in Vietnam; the exploitation of the masses in Latin America, and Asia; the literal theft of Africa's vast resources by the western powers through a new brand of colonialism the lyrics of the Internationale did not ring true anymore for millions of workers and middle class citizens that had a roof over their heads, drove cars and watched television in the living rooms of houses with running water and electricity. The challenge had to come from within if communism was to survive. Brezhnev's self inflicted mortal stab had precipitated that inconvenient truth to the forefront. Eurocommunism gained momentum and the historic compromise reached between Christian Democrat Aldo Moro and Communist leader Enrico Berlinguer in Italy made the schism official. The historic compromise is also the result of the coup-d'etat in Chile and Berlinguer's realization that the left by itself was not capable of governing, at least not yet; Gramsci was vindicated for a brief moment, but Italy's chaotic political scenario and perhaps a little help from one or more western intelligence services shortened the honeymoon and paved the way for il Pentapartito, a balancing act of Christian Democrats, Socialists, Republicans (nothing to do with our GOP) Social Democrats, and Liberals (nothing to do with our left) It is important to note that in their quest to save the dream communists & Co. renounced Satan but never did they deviate from their objective destroying our"liturgy"from within... TO BE CONTINUED