I wonder if McCain and Palin Have Started a Hollywood Blacklist?
More and more the message that John McCain and Sarah Palin are trying to spread is a fear of Communism and Socialism in the leadership of Senator Obama. Aside from the fact that we’re probably no more likely to get socialized medicine from Obama’s team than we were when everyone feared it out of Hillary when Bill was in office, this stirring up of the old Communist bugaboo is disturbing on so many levels I hardly know where to start.
Do we actually evolve over time, or just revovle? Are Americans ready to be steered back to the tiny-mindset world that put Hollywood actors and writers of all stripes on a blacklist for supporting “The Red Commies” - or are we ready to act as if we have learned from our mistakes? Riling people up on issues like race, accusing supposedly respected opponents of communism, terrorism, socialism - these are tactics from a smaller world.
The Internet, for one thing, has opened our windows of perception in ways that even the most forward-thinking among us never really expected. Not all countries of the world have free and unrestricted access, but more and more we are able to share our thoughts, dreams, expectations for the planet and philosophies with a wild variant of world citizens. We are no longer forced to take the word of politicians, or reporters, or professors working from dated material. We can experience so much more of the world from the comfort of our homes that it defites belief that we still seem willing to follow after narrow-minded, policy blind men as if they were telling us the whole truth and nothing but. They so obviously are not.
My message is this, and I figure most of those who will read it, being a writer’s website, will be creative people, or those who enjoy sharing the words and works of creative people. If we let men and women like McCain and Palin label Barack Obama as a socialist or a communist, and allow that to work it’s way back up the bugaboo ladder to the point where it becomes paranoia again, we might as well sign our names to those lists now and get it over with. Once you label a way of thought and make it anathema, it’s not long before it becomes a general label applied to anyone who disagrees.
I hate that sort of thinking in any direction. I hate the very idea of our freedom being threatened by either side. The “Fairness Law,” which some democrats push for….Jesus Christ people! Who is going to oversee THAT fiasco? Freedom of speech, freedom to change the channel. I’m no happier about the partisanship of journalists than the next guy, but I no more want to tell them they have to be fair than I want them telling me the same thing. I don’t want to be labeled, categorized, or blacklisted for my beliefs. I want them respected - at least my right to share them without reprisal.
A last thought…explain to me the commercial with the chair? “This would be Barack Obama’s first crisis…in this chair”
It would be that same thing for all of them. Senator McCain has no executive experience either…and really.
If you were President, wouldn’t you have them order you a new chair? The “W” has imprinted himself in that one…something with lumbar support.
Enough for now. Not so many days left - thank God.
-DNW
