A return to the good old days.

We Americans seldom face the truth. We pretend. A whole lot. For instance, we white Americans pretend that we don’t have very many racists amongst us. I’m not necessarily saying that a majority of us are racists. But there are enough to make America essentially a racist country. That’s the sole reason why so very many conservative Republicans have one goal in mind. To see to it that Barack Obama is a one-term president. They’ll do anything they can to defeat him. Because they detest having a black man in the White House. Insisting that if the oval office was intended for a black man, it would have been built in a black house. In a shack. More or less. Yes, that’s the way conservative Republicans think. They’d secretly like the return of slavery. Some of ‘em, such as Michele Bachmann, think that the slaves were better off under slavery than they are today. That black people are ill-suited to be free. Of course, I find such thinking crazy. And indecent. And obscene. And sinful. But then, it’s reality. It’s true. If one psychoanalyzed a stalwart conservative Republican, such nonsense would come to the surface. Think about it. Our nation was founded on the basis of an economic system that justified the existence of slavery. At the very time that the founders described America as the land of the free and the brave. But you had to be a white man to be relatively free. And then it helped to have money. Lots of money. That even applies today. It’s a guiding principle of our capitalist system. And if we leave it to ultra-conservative Republicans, everybody will be put in their suitable place. A return to the good old days. When black people knew their place. Because they had no choice. –Jim Broede