On Huckabee tonight

I have to say I like Mike Huckabee. In spite of his reactionary politics he strikes me as a decent person. Case in point; he took a few minutes out of his show tonight to extend best wishes to Jesse Jackson Jr., somebody a long way towards the other end of the political spectrum.

So after watching his show tonight, which I like to do once in awhile, I think if Mike just came along to my weekly Marxist study group for a time, he might recognize the error of his ways and come to his senses.

The main guest tonight was one Aaron Klein, who has written a book about Obama's secret Marxist agenda for his second term. Now if Mike would just educate himself ever so slightly about what Marx wrote and what the many permutations of "Marxism" are about, he'd be able to poke holes in the fatuous arguments Klein was forwarding about this so-called Marxist agenda.

Until Romney this year, no politician in history has raised more money on Wall Street than Obama. His brand of Marxism obviously gets the stamp of approval from the slash-and-burn capitalists on the Street.

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be Marx's brand of Marxism.

One of his other guests was Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council. They don't  actually research families; they're a lobby group who lobby for "traditional values," i.e. anti-gay, anti-abortion, and less taxation for rich people. All the traditional values of the Koch family, come to think of it.

So a guy with a very tangential relationship to a queer support group walks into the FRC offices last week armed with a gun and 15 Chik-fil-A sandwiches and sets about taking his place in America's tragic pantheon of mass killers, but the building manager disarms him before he can kill anybody.

This all happened because some liberal groups have branded the Council a purveyor of hate speech.

No, it happened because a disturbed individual didn't get the mental health care he needed and American gun laws make it way too easy for anybody with a mood swing or a grudge to walk into a store and walk out with a gun.

At least he didn't pin that one on Marx.

And he was gracious about crediting the black building manager with saving lives. Beyond that and the shout-out to Jesse Jr. black presence anywhere on the show, including the audience, seemed non-existent.

So join the the think tank here at Falling Downs for our Tuesday evening seminar on the history of Marxism, Mike. We've been reading Kautsky lately. Fascinating guy. The lynch-pin of Marxism morphing into social democracy.

See you Tuesday!