We're All Fools Sometime
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We’re All Fools Sometimes
Imagine an Orwellian, dystopian nightmare of a future. One that is not merely Orwellian, but dystopian to boot. Would that be bad? You bet! Then, throw some socialism into the mix. The kind offered by politicians who are more akin to child molesters lurking on street corners than actual Americans.
Now, the terrible thing about politics is, this is about as good as it gets. Sure we want politicians to advance our cause. Unfortunately, their real cause is getting elected, and then staying elected, and then using whatever methods are available to misdirect the American people, while paying off their biggest donors.
If one of them should get caught having sex with a gerbil, for instance, no problem! Cast doubt on the accusation by declaring your guy or gal is really just an animal lover. Then accuse the opposition of trying to destroy the planet through greed and corporations, which always go hand in hand. It won’t matter a bit if those same corporations gave you trillions of dollars in exchange for favors. Because “The People” are unaware of such goings on, having binge watched some reality show about a family of Quakers who also double as hit men for the Mafia. So, when it comes to politics, most of America’s citizens are only vaguely aware of what’s going on. And that’s just how “The Powers That be” want things.
Here’s an example; the national debt is so ridiculously high that you could take $100 dollar bills and stack them so they’d reach the planet Pluto. Should you do some research and find out that what I just said was completely made up, no problem. The planet Pluto is no longer considered a planet by science, which proves that my analogy is true. Because it’s science.
That’s how politics works. If you’re caught in one lie, just make sure some part of your lie is true, and then relentlessly talk about that one fact over and over again, like a street hustler playing a shell game. “The People will then break down into their tribal affiliations and spread the word that Pluto is no longer a planet. People will offer memes saying it. Documentaries will be made about how the Pluto scandal nearly destroyed the nation, while the nation forgets the original accusation about your favorite politicians predilection for gerbils. I mean, even I’m not sure what the original accusation was, and I’m the one who made it up.
Oh, Yeah, it was about the debt. $20,000,000,000,000,00 worth of debt. But hey! You’ve got health insurance, even if you don’t have health care. Plus, you’re being killed by taxes, even if you don’t pay a single income tax, which is the case for 47% of all Americans. Because all those taxes levied against businesses and corporations are simply passed on in the form of higher prices on everything from rent to bread.
“But that’s unfair!” You say. “If only the wealthy paid their fair share!”
There’s just one problem, they pay virtually all the income taxes and create the jobs, as well.
That’s about the time Americans begin to feel overloaded with knowledge. So, they return to reality TV, where people are so screwed up, it makes the rest of us feel good about ourselves, as we chuckle at the Quaker/hit-man who’s really just trying to get ahead—and we know that he, like us, is doing his best—and failing miserably.
But, we can still believe in our favorite politicians, who care about the poor, while getting really, really rich. We all need to believe in something, I guess. In today’s political climate, that seems as reasonable as anything else.
Mark Magula
Imagine an Orwellian, dystopian nightmare of a future. One that is not merely Orwellian, but dystopian to boot. Would that be bad? You bet! Then, throw some socialism into the mix. The kind offered by politicians who are more akin to child molesters lurking on street corners than actual Americans.
Now, the terrible thing about politics is, this is about as good as it gets. Sure we want politicians to advance our cause. Unfortunately, their real cause is getting elected, and then staying elected, and then using whatever methods are available to misdirect the American people, while paying off their biggest donors.
If one of them should get caught having sex with a gerbil, for instance, no problem! Cast doubt on the accusation by declaring your guy or gal is really just an animal lover. Then accuse the opposition of trying to destroy the planet through greed and corporations, which always go hand in hand. It won’t matter a bit if those same corporations gave you trillions of dollars in exchange for favors. Because “The People” are unaware of such goings on, having binge watched some reality show about a family of Quakers who also double as hit men for the Mafia. So, when it comes to politics, most of America’s citizens are only vaguely aware of what’s going on. And that’s just how “The Powers That be” want things.
Here’s an example; the national debt is so ridiculously high that you could take $100 dollar bills and stack them so they’d reach the planet Pluto. Should you do some research and find out that what I just said was completely made up, no problem. The planet Pluto is no longer considered a planet by science, which proves that my analogy is true. Because it’s science.
That’s how politics works. If you’re caught in one lie, just make sure some part of your lie is true, and then relentlessly talk about that one fact over and over again, like a street hustler playing a shell game. “The People will then break down into their tribal affiliations and spread the word that Pluto is no longer a planet. People will offer memes saying it. Documentaries will be made about how the Pluto scandal nearly destroyed the nation, while the nation forgets the original accusation about your favorite politicians predilection for gerbils. I mean, even I’m not sure what the original accusation was, and I’m the one who made it up.
Oh, Yeah, it was about the debt. $20,000,000,000,000,00 worth of debt. But hey! You’ve got health insurance, even if you don’t have health care. Plus, you’re being killed by taxes, even if you don’t pay a single income tax, which is the case for 47% of all Americans. Because all those taxes levied against businesses and corporations are simply passed on in the form of higher prices on everything from rent to bread.
“But that’s unfair!” You say. “If only the wealthy paid their fair share!”
There’s just one problem, they pay virtually all the income taxes and create the jobs, as well.
That’s about the time Americans begin to feel overloaded with knowledge. So, they return to reality TV, where people are so screwed up, it makes the rest of us feel good about ourselves, as we chuckle at the Quaker/hit-man who’s really just trying to get ahead—and we know that he, like us, is doing his best—and failing miserably.
But, we can still believe in our favorite politicians, who care about the poor, while getting really, really rich. We all need to believe in something, I guess. In today’s political climate, that seems as reasonable as anything else.
Mark Magula