Listen, my children, and you shall hear the modern charge of Paul Revere. “Say no, 'to progress,' 'yes' to fear, the Socialists are coming!”
So let’s have a tea party. Let’s gather together all the well-washed, privileged, right-wingy little neighborhood brats of banker, CEO, bullion-broker, insurance executive and pharmaceutical czar for the revolting celebration of My Dad’s Richer Than Your Dad, so I Get to Hog the Cake.
Let’s condescend to allow The Servant Class-- the cooks, waiters, and busboys serving the party—to take up The Cause against their own interests.
It’s easy enough to lie and terrorize desperate people into it.
For entertainment, let’s play pin-the-blame-on-the-donkey, inciting the scared-to-death to spread the riotous outcry against any oversight of those who screwed up the economy in the first place. Ranting out our slogans, lies, and convenient amnesia over the eight-year reign of the most spoiled and irresponsible of us all, we’ll “educate” our social inferiors into roaring their “amen” to “We want our America back!
The Master-money Race, who’ve stolen the lives, economy and health care of Americans deserve their economic dictatorship, no matter who is denied so much as a crumb of their tea cake.”
Let’s throw childish tantrums at town-hall meetings; block legislation that threatens the bank accounts and tax credits of the super-wealthy at the expense of the other ninety percent of Americans.
Let’s do a Nixon on Senator Mary Landreau’s office, playing telephone-repairman, and counting on good old money-pants Dad to bail us out if we’re caught playing “investigative journalism.”
We’ve gotten by with defying our parents’ authority all our spoiled-brat lives, so why should we answer to society’s? We haven’t noticed anyone in the former administration being held responsible for war-crime activities, so who’s afraid of the big bad Democrat!
Let’s forget about any oversight of the Madeoffs and tolerate the corruption of power-grabbing Liebermans (Senator and Mrs.), bribed by insurance corporations to hold to the status quo on cheating. We don’t like authority; why should the corrupt moneygrubbers in congress be regulated?
If they can collect unearned salaries for not doing their job, blocking Obama’s every effort to get us out of the mess they created, that’s a pretty good gig. We who are refused affordable health care have the privilege of paying for theirs—a reward for putting their own selfish interests above the job they were elected to do. Let’s pervert American History while we’re at it. Use the slogan "taxation without representation," making a mockery of the original outcry against the British that led to a revolution of, "by and for the people.".
Corporations do not represent people! The political terminology for a Republican “NO!” is, appropriately, an echo of the spoiled brats’ “We want our own way or we’ll pick up our toys and go home.”
The homeless and jobless are not to be “coddled”: Given insurance-benefits and/or employment. The underlings of society must blame themselves for their condition, recognizing that the gods of commerce confer all goodies on the movers and shakers-down of The American Dream.
“Since when,” they question, “is the common herd entitled to a meaningful vote in its own interests?
It’s money that talks, especially in light of the latest Supreme-Court idiocy that calls a corporation a person whose freedom of speech is at stake. And while we’re at it-- murderously intent on keeping government out of our lives—let’s deny women a choice over their own reproductive destinies.
There could be no governmental interference more personal, intimate, more threatening of potential slavery to men who will move on to eradicate birth control altogether while never having to answer to the inhumane lack of choice they murder to inflict.