The eye of the idiot
By Capt. Fogg
"For dogs have encompassed me; a company of evil-doers have inclosed me; like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet."
On August 28, 1963, a year short of 50 years ago, Dr. Martin
Luther King told us he had a dream. I wonder if anyone still does.
Watching and listening to the madness growling and the lies howling across the country, I have mostly nightmares. If "America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned"
it's now intent on defaulting on any promise it has ever made to anyone
but the corporate robber barons, the rabid Christianist insurgents and
the anarchists.
We have a self described Anarchist group
of US military personnel, a militia plotting to overthrow the
government by violence, some members of which are now on trial for
murder. We have the most popular cable news network inventing calumnies
against our elected government and some of our wealthiest citizens and
businesses spending billions on so distorting the truth that we can't
remember how we got here and are eager to repeat everything we did to
cause the two largest economic catastrophes in the last hundred years.
We have widespread attempts at voter suppression.
No, you can't get to the truth easily these days, but you can bet
that if the Republicans are screaming about all the things the demon
Democrats and the Beast Obama have done, are doing and are about to do
at any minute, you can be sure the truth is that the Republicans have
done the same or are engaged in doing it or plotting it. Yesterday I
received a thick envelope in the mail, ostensibly from John McCain but
certainly written by others. Designed in every way to generate a sense
of emergency, it insisted that I take the opportunity and use the
express mail envelope (postage not included) to mail $2000, or maybe a
little less if I want to risk an accusation of Marxism, as AN EMERGENCY
DONATION to "stop the billion dollar Obama fundraising Juggernaut."
Whether or not Jesus cares enough to weep any
more, I do. I do at least when the growing rage allows it. Yes, yes, I
know. You poor victims of truth, justice and common decency will tell
me as you've been doing since you turned the most prosperous nation on
earth into the largest debtor with a cynical smile on your face --
you'll tell me I'm simply wrong and generally stupid because I'm angry
at the "legitimate rape of America."
It's the logic of
liars, the argument of the evil and if God has forsaken us, or left us
behind, which may be a better translation, we're still too stupid to
know it. We're legitimately stupid enough to see God's will in our own
evil that we nod together like hollow bobble heads and agree with the Robertsonians that
God saved the Republican convention from getting wet but if an asteroid
fails to fall on the Democratic convention, it will mean nothing.
But in a way, that's true. This is America and meaning is in the eye of the idiot.
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