PARALLEL UNIVERSE (part. 2)

After the hypocritical and embarrassing display of Gov. Mark Sanford's obligatory apology with tears yesterday on every news channel in America except Fox, it should be clear to all that the Republican elite have surely reached the limits of hypocrisy, arrogance and power mongering. As we know from all the naysayers who buy into the mass-marketed sophistry and demagoguery of the Republican party and their army of talking-head hitmen, there are just as many immoral Democrats, not unlike Mark Sanford, cheating on their wives, forcibly coming out of the closet and commiting other smarmy and despicable acts of moral indecency and indiscretion. Yes, we all know that, thank you. [If I hear that “you do it too” argument one more time, I’m going to hurt someone.]

But the fact of the matter is that it is only the Republican ‘holier than thou’ crowd-- who are really the crowd of ‘false prophets’ that Jesus warned us about-- who exploit moralization to the point of inciting violence. Moreover it is the Republicans who want to tell women what they should do with their bodies; want to tell everyone what proper sexuality is; want to tell everyone what constitutes proper marriage; want to tell everyone what a real family is; want to tell everyone who doesn’t practice their morality (that they all too frequently can’t and probably don’t even try to live up to), that they are not real Americans. And Sanford is one of the biggest offenders, biggest of all their many christianist hypocrites.

While they attempt to reduce politics at the national level to mediatized struggles over issues that should be and can only be dealt with at the community level, they exploit the sincere concern of local peoples to preserve their traditions or transform them according to the needs of their times and the demands of historical ruptures or deadends. Moreover this deviously misplaced propaganda allows the Republican demagogues such as Karl Rove and the usual suspects on Fox News to exploit the fear and ignorance of many of conservative and Christian persuasion in order to mobilize a foundation voting block to return the rich and powerful, that is, the war mongerers and globalists to office.

The sad and pathetic if not frightening aspect of such Orwellian style social and civil evil is that they may well achieve their goals even though they have nothing to offer the mass of true believers that they terrorize into swallowing the Limbaughian distortions of fact, interpretation, context, history and perspective.

Karl Rove on Fox News this evening was actually defending Mark Sanford with the “everybody makes mistakes argument” as if that was all that was involved. As if there were no difference between the right Republican, neo-conservative militant christianism and other adulterers not of their persuasion. This same crowd of political deviants who were quite willing to vilify Spitzer or Clinton, suddenly find forgiveness in their hearts for Sanford, one possible prospect for the presidency 2012.

But that isn’t the most despicable part of all of this. All of the manipulation, sophistry, character assassination and exploitation of people’s concerns to reconstitute culture—i.e., a community-based popular culture beyond the reaches of the “culture industry” and the incursions of a parasitic corporate culture and an interventionist bureaucratic centralist state—all of their arrogance and bullying is only and simply to restore the base for the retaking of power in 2012. Nothing else really matters to them because only that level of power will assure fulfilling upon their insatiable drive for profit, empire, and the military reconstitution of all other cultures in the image of Liberal Democracy, a failed one at that. They exploit populism, christianity and American patriotism in the name of their social class's profits, power and elitist resentment.

This is the Republican/Neo-conservative's parallel universe. They have no real concern, understanding of, nor compassion for America as intended let alone the America that many are still struggling to achieve. This is possibly why they were so outraged by Obama’s use of “empathy” when describing what may well serve a Justice of the Supreme Court.

Hopefully, the base of true believers who support the neo-conservatives and the likes of Rush Limbaugh will soon see through the hypocrisy and virtual Hitlerian big lie, and transform themselves in the name of a true conservatism and a neo-populist federalist reconstitution of an authentic confederation of true American communities.

And lastly, let's note that Sanford didn't make a "mistake" as Karl Rove insipidly and unabashedly proclaimed. Sanford knew quite well what he was doing. He consciously and intentionally did wrong. That's not a mistake. A mistake is a consequent error made in an honest attempt to do right or tell the truth but which fails to understand what is right or what is true. Sanford understood what he was doing and knew it was wrong and he did it anyway. Sanford is slime. Did he consider it a mistake before he got caught? No.