Just when you think you’ve heard it all, Rep. Diane Watson (D) demonstrates the depths to which some members of the Democratic Party will stoop in the name of political victory.
To a small crowd of her constituents at last night’s town hall meeting on health care reform at the Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles’ West Adams District, the former elementary school teacher preached the gospel according to Alinsky and Marx. The tried and true liberal canards of fundamental American racism and the glories of the Cuban Revolution were met with applause and the ocassional “Amen,” according to KABC’s Michael Linder, the only broadcast journalist in attendance.
You have to give Diane Watson credit: she’s consistent in her race-baiting and collectivist claptrap. Her sermon last night was like a series of progressive beatitudes: Blessed are they who support ObamaCare, for they are not racist. Blessed are the communists, Marxists, socialists, progressives, and collectivists of all stripes, for they are smarter than everyone else. Blessed is the Cuban medical system, because progressives say so.
According to the congresswoman–and no, I’m not making any of this up–the president of the United States does not only represent the nation, he is the nation. Ergo, if his policies fail, the nation fails. And, as the good congresswoman rhetorically reminded those in attendance last night, nobody wants “a failed state called ‘the United States,’” do they?
Therefore, it follows that anyone who does want to see the president’s policies fail must have some other dastardly and illogical and hateful motive for his position. (Revs. Sharpton & Jackson: if you’re reading this, yes, you guessed correctly–but don’t tell the rest of the congregation.)
Racism! That’s “the bottom line,” according to Rep. Watson. Anyone with the audacity to raise concerns regarding H.R. 3200 is a big, fat racist. Watson, a person of color, said last night that those who oppose ObamaCare “are spreading fear, and they are trying to see that the first president–who looks like me–fails.” If you don’t like what the president is selling, you hate black people. So sayeth the congresswoman.
How in the world can someone come to such an outlandish conclusion, you may ask? It’s simple: the success of the so-called “black community” is wholly dependent upon the success of the Obama presidency. Watson put it this way last night: “We want [President Obama] to succeed because when he succeeds we regain our status.”
Wow! That makes perfect sense, because individuals of color can’t possibly succeed on their own merits, now can they? “The One”–who is America made flesh–must succeed in order to bring prosperity and tranquility to people of color. Anything less spells doom.
Disgusting.
Watson didn’t stop there, though. She went on to praise the Cuban health care system, exhorting her constituents to “go down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place.” That’s an easy request for the congresswoman to make, because she knows that her constituents can’t get to Cuba and must therefore take her word for it. And she would never mislead her constituents, now would she?
I direct your attention to Martin Luther King Jr./Drew hospital in south central Los Angeles, where more than a few poor souls died (one could argue “were killed” would be more appropriate) from negligent care or lack of any care at all. A perfect example of failed state-subsidized health care, Diane Watson nevertheless fought hard to keep “Killer King” hospital open, saying, “If we let it go, we are all guilty and the blood of those who die will be on our hands.”
You see, according to the gospel of statism reality doesn’t matter. Utopian visions of heaven on earth always trump the hard, cold truth. That’s why Watson could say to her constituents last night without the merest hint of irony or sarcasm, “You can think whatever you want of Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met.” In other words, Castro is a man of great vision, with a sincere and compassionate desire to bring about an egalitarian utopia where equality of result is the law of the land. It matters little how much blood is spilled or how much freedom is denied; all that matters is the utopian dream.
Watson finished her praise of Fidel Castro–as any former elementary school teacher turned collectivist preacher would–with a brief history of post-revolutionary Cuba: “The Cuban Revolution, that kicked out the wealthy–Che Guevara did that–and then after they took over they went out among the population to find someone who could lead this new nation, and they found…an attorney by the name of Fidel Castro.”
Dr. King’s not the only one who had a dream. Diane Watson has one, too. The congresswoman apparently dreams of a time when the wealthy will be brought to their knees by bloodthirsty leftist dilletantes who pander to the disenfranchised–and a lawyer shall lead them.
Pardon me if I let the collection plate pass me by.
Yeah, she’s a nut-case. Her time and the time others like her is coming though. Americans are very tolerant of others’ foibles, but we’ll only be pushed so far before we move to correct a situation like that.
Boy, I hope so, jonolan. Judging by the response she got from the “hometown” crowd, I find it hard to see the influence of race-baiters like her going away anytime soon, though.
For anyone else out there reading this post, check out the Booker T. Washington quote on jonolan’s blog. Very appropriate for the discussion at hand, I think (http://blog.jonolan.net).
Ummmm….the quotes in the sidebar are in a pseudo-random rotation. Here it is though:
Thanks for the extra effort, jonolan!
This is proof positive…we are being taken over and the enemy is us. Frightening.
The enemy is not us; the enemy is the Liberals and their “minority tenants” who they use to do a lot of the “heavy lifting” and “dirty work.”
We are not them; they are not Americans, and they certainly are not “us.” They are a very dangerous cancer – destructive foreign cells created within the body – within our nation.
Unfortunately, jonolan, I think conservativelady is right: those espousing the kind of tripe Rep. Watson is selling are Americans, with a constitutional right to spew their toxic claptrap whether you and I like it or not. The good news is we have the same right to counter such nonsense with our own voices.
I think you’re onto something with your comment regarding the use of minorities as a kind of slave underclass to bolster progressives in the political class though, jonolan. If only those cheering for Watson’s statements at the town hall meeting last night would realize that Watson’s collectivist worldview means debilitating welfare state slavery for all…
astrojockey,
Being American – IMHO at least – has more to it than an accident of birth. There’s a basic moral and ideological base to it as well. A person can’t really be American when they hate and/loath everything that America was founded upon and despise American culture, Americana if you will though that word has been twisted somewhat be marketeers.
Of course that doesn’t mean that they don’t have the same Constitutional protections as anyone else. Those protections apply to everyone within our borders.
A true story.
A friend was visiting with her 16 year old son. She had recently lost her job, and thus, was uninsured. While at the beach with my 4 kids and her son, she collapsed. Transported to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with a large kidney stone. She had a surgical procedure which pulverized the stone and got her out of the hospital in 24 hours. A social worker met with her to get her on MediCal, and she won’t be billed until that process is complete.
The reform that is being proposed isn’t perfect, and I’m not qualified to debate the pros and cons. But I do have this to say: health care in this country is broken. Something needs to be done to assist those who cannot afford health insurance. Getting people preventative care saves money. We want the children growing up now to be healthy, for they are the ones who will care for us in our old age.