Wednesday, August 03, 2005

THE POLITICAL GAME

Politics is a shell game, a kiss and don't tell game, a blame game, a phony claim game always the same game and It ain't a tame game. Here is how it's played: invade, persuade, degrade. Don't tell outright lies. Just shade the truth to disguise what what you say implies. The strategy: Shame the name, never call a spade a spade.

It's down and dirty, wordy, wordy, designed to malign he/she or she/he, so you can rob and hobnob with the slobs of party louses and seduce each other's spouses.

It's a money-money lottery, a money tree and the guys who tell the biggest lies win first prize, financed by the cook-the-book crooks of corporate greed. That's all they need to win the race. Dollar bills set the pace.

It's unclean, obscene, but green is the grease that runs the machine that makes the deals and keeps the wheels of industry spinning. winning every inning from the beginning. All bets are off, the fix is in. It's not a question who wins the election, but who passes the collection plate to those who signed the IOUs and the time has come to pay the dues.

Here's the irony: Democracy is a fraud but it can't fall. In the final analysis, nations that sink into paralysis are those that build fancy palaces for kings and queens and corrupt machines who live in the lap of luxury while their subjects live in abject poverty. The downtrodden look at the corrupt capitalist democracies and say that's what we want to be. It's not the best, but it's better than all the rest. Just look at what our system's wrought. Look at everything we've got. And look at all the cars in the Wal-mart parking lot.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Irony in the Wal-Mart lot. That got to me, having followed your piece, " Is God Still on Our Side" - bringing to mind the one thing none of us wants to deal with - War for Wars Sake- The Trashing of America for Profits Sake.

And the lines of Dylans' ( sung by Peter,Paul,and Mary
From Where Have All The Flowers Gone

"Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, every one!
When will they ever learn,
when will they ever learn?"

Thanks for bringing it home.

11:09 PM  

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