Everyone who has seen the movie, Swingers, knows that line. They know it as the favorite utterance from Vince Vaughn’s character signifying something unusually good. After the vote tallies of last night the line has obviously made its way into the lexicon of political operatives that I believe the likes of which America has not seen since Tammany Hall or the Teapot Dome Scandal.
The moneyed interests in pachyderms have conquered Congress, the Supreme Court and as of today, the Senate is in their pockets too. I fear that the next election cycle will stack the deck with another one in the White House. God forbid.
Historically whenever all three tips of the trident are sharpened on the same bias, Americans suffer. We’ve heard that we have no one to blame for this but ourselves. But is that true? If we chafe under the weight of knowing then it shouldn’t be a stretch for us to understand that it just might NOT be all our fault.
If not, then shouldn't we be handing out pitchforks and torches? Where is the reasoned response? The outrage? The righteous indignation? Where in Hell are the Democrats? We know where the Republicans are. They’ve expanded through gerrymandering, misinformation, fear mongering and Fox News. Wait a minute, that’s just being redundant. Sorry.
The Democrats resemblance to Nero stroking his lyre while the poorer parts of Rome go up in flames is not much of a stretch. THINK: Urban blight solved. And if all you know about the sack of Rome was that it was done by the Visigoths in AD 410 then you miss the more important aspect as to why. Simple math is the answer.
By the time Alaric plundered the Eternal City, the population was two thirds enslaved. That’s two out of three people on the street being already screwed and tattooed by the empire. So it's easy to imagine them holding the gates open with, “Come on in. Make yourself at home. The treasury is that way and the bordello this way. Would you be so kind and kill my boss? Can I get you something to drink?”
Another truth is that the fiction of rugged individualism is a lie. No one raises a barn on his own. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had help and some of it via virtual slavery.
When a nation’s powerful and elite take liberties with us, it is our duty to the country to reassert our own liberty and call them out. Historically that has been the only way real change has taken place in our system. It has never been a top down game. Only of late, and done to us while we were sleeping. In other words, those are not hemorrhoids we are suffering from.
When so much of the country’s wealth is concentrated among a handful of corporations, banks and oligarchs, we’ve got a stew simmering. One that smells faintly familiar and one particularly appetizing to Visigoths.
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