Realpolitik & Outlook IV

The Great Stage Show in America;

After the Latest Finale, End of Act One, The Primary Season.

That's right friends. At this moment Senator John McCain of Arizona is no longer a viable candidate, after his loss to the former President's son in the Super Tuesday primaries. Occasionally one may hear his name mentioned but increasingly it will be in tones indicating that McCain was and is a loser. Wasn't that easy? And to think it could have happened any other way. Are you kidding? Were real people out there voting? Sure they were. Were there any real issues? None but the usual; "money talks and bullshit walks." And you thought maybe the string pullers up in the catwalks were getting nervous? Not on your life. Didn't you see the movie, The Matrix?

"T for Texas, T for Tennessee, T for Thelma, the gal who made a fool of me" Yeah, it might as well be, a theme song as good as any for this increasingly boring show. Of course there are quite a few issues weighing in the balances that have to do with these men, at least the ones on the left and right; scenes from other operas staged in the same theatre months or years ago, some having to do with very evil and crazy men elsewhere around the world, some having to do with a band of conspirators in high places, that's right, the people who pay those people in the catwalks, people who are collectively living under the illusion that they have everything under control and if anything goes wrong they can just pay someone off. Money will clear all entanglements out of the way for them, after all, it always has in the past. By now they're resting on a pretty deep bed of laurels. They have enjoyed a track record going back almost three hundred years. By some accounts even longer. Mostly without a hitch.

The man in the middle is someone who jumped up on the stage out of the audience. It's sort of a miracle he hasn't been lassoed by the string pullers above his head, but he hasn't tried to influence the action in any way and he wont. He's just up on stage usually saying what most of the people in the audience really feel. I don't agree with everything he says, but I do agree with most of what he says. In a recent interview with Chris Matthews he said that "government should do for people what they can't do for themselves, and no more." He also stepped right into the middle of the yucky abortion issue by saying that he'd personally never be involved in an abortion, but that if we made a law forbidding it we'd soon see more horrible cases show up in our hospital emergency rooms as a result. This is exactly the way an old Irish Catholic cop in New York City explained it to me years ago. Nothing more mysterious than that. I really liked Jesse Ventura and felt sorry in some way that he'd never run for higher office, but I also understood why he wouldn't. The game is a game and it's rigged.

While were at it, let's have a closer look at the two leagues. Oh do we really have to? Bored yet? Yeah I know, I shouldn't even bother with most of this stuff but someone has to keep reminding people out there that they are being fooled, hoodwinked, purposely mind numbed, just so a few incredibly powerful groups of people can feel more secure in their own little game upstairs, way upstairs. Would the world be any better off if they weren't doing what they have been and are doing? Yes, in some ways it certainly would be. But make no mistake, you can't get rid of them, maybe ever. It would and will take "divine intervention" for that to happen. And even if you could, would you really have a better life than you have right now? In most cases you wouldn't. So let's face it, it's just like The Matrix. And just like The Matrix, these mighty echelons way above us are living off our energy; we are living at least part of our lives for THEM. You might as well get used to it. You might as well even like it. But you might also keep sending coded messages to hasten "divine intervention" because that precinct is higher, bigger, wiser and better than anything or anyone on planet Earth.

In fact all around the world common time is reckoned from the last appearance of "divine intervention". At that time, the divine messenger told a little story to his friends. It went something like this;

"A nobleman went into a far country to receive the right to rule a kingdom and then to return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten pounds, and said to them, `Trade with these till I come back.' But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, `We do not want this man to reign over us.' When he returned, having received the right to rule the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him that he might know what they had gained by trading. The first came before him, saying, `Lord, your pound has made ten pounds more.' And he said to him, `Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little you shall have authority over ten cities.' And the second came saying, `Lord, your pound has made five pounds.' And he said to him, `And you are to rule over five cities.' Then another came, saying, `Lord, here is your pound, which I kept laid away in a napkin; for I was afraid of you because you are a severe man; you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.' He said to him, `I will condemn you out of your own mouth you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? Why then did you not at least put my money into the bank, and at my coming back I should have collected it with interest?' And he said to those who stood by, `Take the pound from him and give it to him who has the ten pounds.' (And they said to him, `Lord, he has ten pounds already!') `I tell you, that to every one who has will more be given; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.'" Luke 19: 12-27.

In any case, to borrow a few phrases from the culture around us; "keep looking up", or "be seeing you." You get extra points if you can identify who said either of these.

The Polar Bear