Russell Greim (Jan. 6), like President Bush and Trent Lott, denies the obvious when he is caught out. These partisans accuse the opposition of "using lies about economies" and engaging in "class warfare."
They hide, hoping that power, in the shape of a self-revealing "grotesque" class warfare will do all the political work for them. It is, however, a tactic of vacuous exhaustion, not a strategy of intellectual energy and moral direction.
There is no wonder that moderates seek to disassociate themselves from that hairy horde of right-wing yahoos known as "Boobus americanus" (H.L. Mencken).
These ignorant, righteous, credulous partisans are ready to follow any Rush Limbaugh who comes along yelling the agenda of right-wing mantras at them over and over again.
Not long ago Greim said Tom Daschle was a "partisan obstructionist." Let's briefly examine that charge. Well, the Congressional Quarterly (Greim probably thinks of the CQ as a liberal publication) says that Daschle agreed with his party majority only 80 percent, whereas Trent Lott was a 98 percenter and Bill Frist was 97 percent.
Of course we're talking about power: "The course of power ultimately changes only if there are forces present to oppose it," promises David Remnick. That's the job of Democrats. But the Bush "Big Brother" government rarely feels the rub of resistance since Sept. 11. It is able ,with the help of Republican-owned Big Media, to justify gratuitous tax breaks for the top 1 percent.
It seems to be bizarre that much "conservative" sentiment in the Republican-owned media now seems disposed to extol the present conditions of American life.
Do such sentiments merely hope to support a political administration widely seen as being conservative, to preserve the political gains of recent years by the right?
I, like Russian philosopher Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, wish to "live not by lies" being told by yahoos. Also, I, like Solzhenitsyn, will "see an imperium collapse under the weight of its own leaden deceptions" (Remnick).
America today is quickly becoming divided by both economic and cultural disparities. Disraeli would be alarmed, I think, by events in this country where the vision of the "two Americas" looms ever more palpable. The dangers here are obvious, matters of equity, such as equal educational opportunity, aside.
The sickness in a person's mind and heart is their private burden, but if it appears in the Daily News forum, it surely deserves rebuttal.
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