attempts to placate, mollify, justify and encourage conciliation coming

I fully expect that now that the NSA warrantless surveillance story has broken, and the words "impeachment" and "Constitutional crisis" have been heard, all sorts of the usual suspects, from all corners of the political spectrum will emerge, urging us in slightly gooey voices to understand, see the reason for, be conciliatory, avoid damaging the nation, we can't have another Watergate, we can't have another scandal involving the White House (bwahahahaha - Got Republicans ?) etc. etc. slobber slobber drool mooo bahhh bahhh. In less colorful terms, those who are inclined to get along and forge compromise with the "other side" will feel themselves compelled to urge us to think in encounter group terms, discuss our feelings, and strive for consensus. So as to avoid the pain of the country facing up to the fact that another (Republican) presidential administration has initiated a scandal which threatens the integrity of the union, cause we just can't, can't Beeeeaaaaar that, it's toooooo painfullllll. So let's make nice and forgive our cute little simian in the Oval Office, cause he was doing it to protect us, and the Faaather symbol is one of the strongest and most important in psychology and mysticism, and he was being a Faaather to the people (Ceauscecu and other of the vilest dicktaters in history have assumed the parental mantle in order to justify their coercive control of the people, is Doober learning from history ? I wouldn't put it past his fascist advisors - they certainly seem to be borrowing from Nazi German playbooks).

I urge that should these people appear, they be told gently and kindly to shut the fuck up and go play drums in the woods. What is painful is an administration that hands control of the nation's foreign policy over to a political lobbying group which has dubious ties to foreign conservative political parties and domestic corporations, hands the nation's environmental policy over to political lobbying groups for the oil industry, and generally defecates on the American people and modern standards of civilization and civil society, and smirks while doing it. These folks have made overt war on normal society, and on the hard-won advances in the human condition, however slight, made with the sweat and blood of people like the Founders of this nation, labor leaders, feminists, scientists and other potential subversives. We delude ourselves if we believe that nice encounter-group standards and "I'm OK, you're OK, let's discuss our feelings" conciliatory pablum is of interest to them; they only laugh at it. They operate on the basis of the primacy of strength and the contemptibility of weakness; Big Dick Cheney summed it up most succinctly with "Go Fuck Yourself". With discussion partners of this caliber, an education session about the actual extent of their power and their role in American society must be the first order of business.

Our Democratic Party members in federal elected office have been showing remarkable amounts of gumption in the last few weeks, as the perfidy of the Bush administration has become unmistakable, like the stench of a backed-up sewage system.

So this little missive is in large part aimed at our body politic, at those members of our public who participate in the process and inform those representatives, who are now fulfilling the role of servant of the public with distinction, of the opinion of their constituency. Let us make it crystalline to our representatives that they have our support in their valiant efforts to hold this administration accountable, and not degenerate into the sort of "progressive" morass we too frequently dissolve into, where everyone places higher priority on expressing their view of reality than on forging a forceful united response to entities who blatantly deserve the appellation "common enemy" (they are no longer just "usual suspects"). Time for everyone to hold on for the ride, so that for example when Big Dick Cheney tries to social-engineer his proposed "backlash", he comes to an intimate, bone-level understanding of the phrase "Go Fuck Yourself".

I kinda object to the "go play drums in the woods" part, but that's me. Last thing in the world I need when *I* go to play drums in the woods is some damned, godless, motherless, soulless Repiglican banging away in *my* spot!

:toast:

to the tunes of Wagner.

excellent and straight to the point!

"I urge that should these people appear, they be told gently and kindly to shut the fuck up and go play drums in the woods."


You put it more nicely than I would have... but you are new, so I will forgive. ;)

K & R most definitely.

just not when there are more pertinent things to do than navel-gazing - no offence intended ;)

(My model for who I -don't- want us to be is Mr. Andreesen (sp ?) from Beavis & Butthead - "m'kay, now you boys think about whyyyy you were fighting, m'kay ?")

reasoned and righteous. GIVE THEM NO QUARTER!!! Kicked and rec'd. SG
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instead, I don't think too highly of people who instrumentalize the notion of father and the symbolism it connotes in service of social engineering efforts which are to lead to a populace which is more self-controlling, and more receptive to being controlled. As happened in the 1990's (starting under the Bush I administration) via the men's (pseudo-)movement and the elevation of "father" into a word and concept with social currency.

(And I ask myself as I write this whether the usual suspects didn't note the men's and particularly father's rights movement which predated Bush I, related it to their own agenda of reintroducing/strengthening patriarchy and socioeconomic stratification into mass society, remarked that the Nazis, who I believe they took as a role model, promoted a "men's movement", and proceeded to subvert yet another social grouping inoffensive or laudable in its own right to their own fascist social engineering purposes. Hence the reek of usual-suspect flatulence that accompanies the subversion of the humble word "father" into another affective codeword used to stimulate conditioned subconscious responses. Kind of like sulfur used to give note that the devil was near. (And hey, it still smells like sulfur, just processed, and with bouquet...)

I urge them to take their right arms, hold them out straight, and then shove them up each other's asses. (Hey, they could make a fisting movie, bet it would make money in the gay porn market - "hey, look at all those guys in Republican drag, it's a bunch of drama queens". Just musing... ;) ))