Screw You "Screwed"

I attempted to listen to "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class--and What We Can Do About It," by Thom Hartmann, and I must say, I absolutely despised this book.

I listed to 2 of the 6cd unabridged set, ready by Anthony Heald, and I couldn't take anymore of that BS.

Mind you, I agreed with his economic statements about the previous four administrations (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan) and the economic position these anus faces have put us in, but I couldn't stomach his blind lust for the alleged "Founding Fathers," nor his belief that the U.S. constitution was written to create a middle class.

Thom alleges that the ideals of the alleged "founding fathers" was sound and pretty much the masters way of ruling the universe. He predicates his discussion of the great and glorious holier than vegans "founding fathers" by eliminating two points initially from the discussion: their genocidal behavior against red nig...er...the indigenous of this nation, and no discussion as to the fact that they were slavers. He did not mention the poor, treatment of women and children as property, environmental damages, etc. Women, of course, not having male equipment, automatically makes them NOT a part of the "we the people" discussion for obvious lack of the proper genitalia. Thus, according to Thom Hartmann, when they say "we the people" instead of meaning, like James Madison asserted, we the propertied white male wealthy elite, they meant the "middle class."

Thom alleges that a middle class is a natural form of societies. He stated that some grazing animals aren't led by the alpha male or female, but by their middle class. It has been noted that grazing animals, when thirsting for water, a majority start facing the water hole they want to head to. This is considered the "middle class" of the animal world. According to my observations, the middle class constitutes last I heard (and I'm sure it has since shrank) approximately 30% of the populace. The wealthy elite less than 1%. The rest of us lessers, approximately 69%. 69% of the people are not considered in this equation. In the case of the animals, for their really to be a middle class, their would have to be the big fat overeating alpha 1%, the well-fed 30% of the herd, and the barely surviving 69%. This is something I have NOT observed nor heard of in nature, yet Thom asserts that animals pointing themselves to a waterhole means a middle class is a natural formation of societies.

The narrowing of the focus on only the GOOD attributes of the alleged "founding fathers" (notice that their are no founding grandparents, women, children, etc., thus some folk are excluded OBVIOUSLY from the process of "we the people"), then one should focus on only the GOOD attributes of all world leaders. Hitler united the German people, improved the economy, brought the world the VW, created excellent roads, improved the health of the German people. George Bush created vast wealth for his wealthy comrades and created a military industrial complex that has vastly improved the lives of those who take advantage of such things. No, we are not to look at the bad things about the "founding fathers." Not the genocide of Indians or their genocidal behaviors in general, not the treatment of women and children as property of men, not the fact that only propertied white males were the only people allowed to vote and participate initially in the U.S. government, not the slavery, etc. Their ideals were perfect and pure and holier than veganism. Uhhh...NO!

To assert that the U.S. constitution was written to create a middle class, as Thom does, flies in the face of historical fact. According to one history book I listened to recently that I can't find in my library search and forget the title of, it was stated that the reason the U.S. constitution was written was in order to form a navy. The U.S. at the time was like 13 nation states within one nation state. Without a constitution, the U.S. couldn't build a navy. Why did the U.S. want to build a navy? To protect U.S. interests off of the Barbary Coast, to protect U.S. citizens from becoming slaves at the hands of pirates off of the Barbary Coast, and to further U.S. trade agreements. Oddly, the "middle class" were not mentioned in this book.

Other liberal works that have nauseated me to revulsion include "The End of America," by Naomi Wolff and "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore. Both extoll the holier than vegan virtues of the alleged "founding fathers" ad nauseum. I'd rather know what my fellow humans are doing now about the situations we now face rather than hear how great historical, penis weilding, white "master" race, slave owning, genocidal, misogynist, child and nature hating MEN, are.