We the Great Unwashed have vented our anger and frustration with the imperial rule of the present White House and Congress. Too late one of the most infamous of insiders, Rumsfeld, is being sacrificed in an attempt to defray the damage done by an administration and Congress that history will record the worst America has ever suffered. However, Caesar Bush must have a medal somewhere to confer upon Rumsfeld. But I doubt this will deter Democrats from going after the criminals like Rumsfeld putting America at risk of a War Crimes Tribunal, and if Caesar is now seen as weaseling there is good cause for his doing so.

The problems Democrats now face in any attempt to go after Republican criminals is the fact the Dems are too dirty themselves, and the question now is whether anything will change for the better following this election. Most of us can be excused for our doubts, not the result of pessimism but the result of knowing politicians remain politicians no matter their promises which amounts only to posturing and pandering to get elected, and then using elected office as a license to steal. Greed and avarice knows no political affiliation but is common to all those that lust for power and authority over others.

The losses of Michael Steele and Kinky Friedman were among my several disappointments. But here in my native state I was happy to vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger and protecting children from the monsters preying on them. However, in a world dominated by war lovers and bullies thirsting for nuclear weapons, an America hated by Muslims and without secure borders to frustrate nuclear terrorism and allowing illegal aliens to flow across our borders by the thousands daily who will put America first? None in the present leadership; and I doubt there will be any in the new leadership. Politicians will continue to be politicians, driven by the most base of motives.

For example, as a politician it served Lincoln’s purpose to use Negroes as cannon fodder, but his own expressed opinion was Negroes would never be the equal of Caucasians, and he wondered at Negro leaders refusing his offer of a homeland of their own. Why, he wondered, would Negroes choose to live where they would be hated, would never be considered of equal value to Caucasians?

To the civilized mind it is utterly abhorrent that any could actually believe, even preach from church pulpits that a person could actually “own” another human being. But as Henry Thoreau pointed out in respect to wage slavery “It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one…” And because of our Constitution being usurped and “interpreted” in ways so foreign to the clear intent of our Founding Fathers such as America being a Christian nation we now live with the resulting welfare slavery, one of the results of Lincoln’s War, the attempt at national suicide with a needless 600,000 casualties, that has become a way of life for so many, robbing and cheating so many of basic human dignity, even to the point of rewarding illegitimate births with a bigger welfare check as long as there is no father to support the resulting babies. But as with the period following the death of Lincoln where servants of the Devil pandered for Negro votes, so it goes today. But today the pandering is extended to Mexicans and perverts also.

There is nothing to commend the present crop of politicians, or those of years past that have made their contributions to destroying the America so many sacrificed and died to preserve, certainly not the nearly venerated Ronald Reagan who opened the floodgates to the millions of illegal aliens invading America. And nothing good can be said of Clinton who pardoned 600 crooks to feather his own nest. Republican or Democrat, all sell out and betray America because they will not put America ahead of their own lust for power and authority, their own greed and avarice driven motives.

The wholesale betrayal of America by the present White House and Congress follows an infamous history of such betrayal by their predecessors, and despite this election I doubt We the People can expect anything else than more of the same. Let’s see any of these politicians do anything substantive in securing our borders for example. How many will stick up for an American identity, for our national heritage and culture, our language, and address in a meaningful way the many things such as the invasion by Mexico threatening our nation.

For those of us old enough to recall an America that was once trusted by the other nations of the world, a Norman Rockwell America that could be counted on to come to the aid of the underdog and pulled together against the Axis Powers literally saving the world from falling into barbarism it is a bitter thing to see what politicians and their corporate bosses have done to betray that America. But, alas, that America into which I was born and raised cannot be explained any more than one can explain love and romance.

Literally thousands of books have been written on the subject, but books cannot explain the America I once knew. Better than books, the films of the past come closest to an explanation, those old films made by a Hollywood that had pride in America and devoted so much of its efforts to reinforcing that pride.

My mother was a real lover of films and Hollywood, and she would take my brother Ronnie and me to see a great many films. We learned to appreciate George Raft, John Garfield, Abbott and Costello, The Bowery Boys, Laurel and Hardy, and Sherlock Holmes films, and Musicals like the ones with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. I’ll never forget seeing Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man. They were great scary movies. And I’ll never forget seeing Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet. That was a really swell movie; Elizabeth Taylor was such a beautiful girl and Mickey Rooney was one of my favorite actors. But mom would take us to see serious movies as well. I especially remember movies about Madame Curie and Louis Pasteur.

Grandad would deliver Ronnie and me to the Nile or Fox Theater for Saturday cartoon matinees in Bakersfield. Ronnie and I loved cartoons and I’ll never forget seeing Snow White and Bambi; they were wonderful cartoon movies. But the only movie I remember grandad distinctly taking Ronnie and me with him to see was Cabin in the Sky. It had some great music, and the story about the devil and the angel fighting over a man’s soul really fired my imagination.

Two especially terrific movies came out in 1939: Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. Even as young as we were, Ronnie and I thought they were great, especially the really magical one with Judy Garland. Even mom seemed to really like The Wizard of Oz. We enjoyed seeing movies with mom; she seemed to like the same ones that Ronnie and I did, and we could depend on her to pick ones that were good. But for some reason, I never cared for Charlie Chaplin, The Three Stooges, or The Marx Brothers. But I liked W.C. Fields.

Sometime in 1941, our mother took us to a movie titled High Sierra. A man named Humphrey Bogart played in it. Mom cried at the ending, and said she just knew the movie would make him a star. But I mostly remember a beautiful girl in the movie. Her name was Ida Lupino. I felt sorry for her at the end. She was hurt in some way I didn’t understand, and it didn’t seem fair somehow. She hadn’t done anything wrong, I didn’t think.

Gone now are the great musicals and films reflecting a national ethos of pride in our nation when Americans were filled with hope and optimism. In their place are the films filled with brutality and despair, of violence against women and children, films glorifying perversion of every description. While some will accuse me of a melancholy nostalgia for the past, few would disagree Hollywood in too many ways reflects political realities. And it is those realities that speak volumes of America’s decline into barbarism, realities that are making America weak and fragmented into the many groups demanding special privilege on the basis of race and perversion rather than a nation of unhyphenated Americans.