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The corporate CEOs floating around off shore with their $10,000,000 bonus for sending our jobs to India seem like small potatoes right about now. Chump change compared to the torture freaks and Jesus freaks unleashed by the Second Coming of George W. Bush. Might as well take down the flag and put it in mothballs. We have some new national symbols and they ain`t pretty: electrodes, black hoods, a FLUSH THE KORAN sign in North Carolina. Bibles are stacked from here to next week as tangible proof we`re a Christian Nation. Rumsfeld says we can torture evildoers and Tom DeLay says we can buy high chairs for Petri dishes.
There are people running this country who apparently have some kind of notebook...and they`re taking names: SAVED, NOT SAVED. It`s all end-of-discussion-black-or-white. NOT SAVED: pro-choicers, liberal radio hosts, tree huggers, peace activists. SAVED: members of "Snowflake Babies" clubs, first-stike proponents, Wal-Mart executives, people who want the top ten floors of the United Nations to fall over. I used to think this saving stuff had something to do with specific organized religions. Now I understand that Republicans get to decide these things all on their own, based on how people vote and whether or not they associate with homosexuals.
Bush utters "Clear Skies Initiative" and the skies get cleared. "Evildoers" and we get the right to kill people. "Movin` forward" and presto! No more homelessness. It`s magic, I tell you. Republicans simply call on their extraordinary moral clarity and a bright light comes on. No need to ask questions because the answer is always the same....Higher Authority.
Apparently, once corporate media identifies The Good and separates them from The Bad and Ugly, there`s no need for further ado. Counting caskets just plays into the hands of those seeking to do us harm and challenging "FLUSH THE KORAN" signs makes you sound like you don`t belong to a real church. It all works so nicely when we get that 50`s thing going and learn to be content with our place.
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