Res Publica: Elections 2010 the wholly trinity & root causes of our economic plight in a right to work state

Migration is as old as humanity. It is what all carbon-based life forms do. It is as natural as breathing.

Migration is how Europeans including the Anglo-Saxon arrived on these shores. When exactly depends on whose anthropological forensics you believe. But no matter whose historical detective work you accept one thing is certain---there were indigenous people here when the invaders arrived from five centuries ago.

Just as we call those who came from Europe, England, Africa by their continent’s identifier those who were here were “The First Americans.” Everyone else is---well, something else. Now a hyphenated something else.

To the “First Americans” the indigenous people of this hemisphere---whether North, Central or South America those stepping on these shores from somewhere else were invaders, terrorists (or in “w” speak “terrists”) gods or just plain unknowns. Since then those invading “terrists” have also become occupiers or squatters.

The steps to becoming occupiers or squatters were ugly. Those brutal, inhumane steps included genocide (intended and not), slavery, repression, wholesale theft of land, mistreatment, discrimination and imposed poverty.

During the first three or four centuries of their brutal history European-Anglo migrants used Africans they enslaved to clear land, kill natives and establish outposts. Mesoamericans meanwhile were migrating their ancestral lands, just as they always did. Those ancestral lands included everything west of the Mississippi River and stretched from the Yucatan Peninsula through Canada or a span of land encompassing half the Western Hemisphere.

For at least the entire 20th Century migrating Mesoamericans were pressed into service by the occupying European-Anglo busy setting up the “White Male System” imported from Europe, England and even the Middle East. (More on that another time)

Mesoamericans from the nation of Mejico and further south have been victimized and for all intents enslaved by Europeans in their own lands. Later those lands were parsed by the ever territorial squatting European-Anglo occupiers. So for almost two centuries Mesoamericans have had the distinction of being pressed into service, of being treated in savage, brutal and de-humanizing ways by European-Anglos on both sides of that border.

These artificial borders defined by the occupier were maintained in an intentionally porous manner. When work required plentiful amounts of labor the artificial border was opened. The artificial borders functioned not unlike a flood gate or the control-nob on a burner limiting or increasing the flame under a boiling pot.

Most people are almost completely ignorant of “history.” Even those who consider themselves “historians” have a parallax-view of history. That is the view of history as told by those who have conquered. Think of it as a dramatization of the concept that “Dead Men Don’t Tell Tales.”

The expression being reality consequently, a repackaged version of the facts is sold as “history.” This repackaged version of history is repeated and over time creates a very different world from what some term “reality.”

Thus, to the average person the world view they have imprinted on them as they emerge from the womb is their understanding of “reality.” Only then can it be that blond, blue-eyed European-Anglos can even remotely---ignorantly---but plausibly consider themselves “Native Texans” for example. This is a hubris as absurd as it is insincere. The unmendable misfortune is that when the majority population is comprised of European-Anglos this twisted, tortured and tormented worldview is a mostly unchallenged one. That only serves to further distort the picture.

One example is the term a “right to work” state which is what Texas calls itself. Vehemently “anti-union” (maybe they still think it refers to the Civil War) the state ranks at the low end of per capita wage earning in the nation. So if the citizens of this state have a “right to work” it is for slave wages. “Right to work” is a euphemism for “anti-union.” Workers have almost no rights in this state. Employers need no reason to fire an employee. Does that sound like anyone has a right to work? Both of the state’s U.S. senators voted against the last minimum wage increase. Does that sound like the state wants to pay a living wage?