ONE HAIR ON OUR ASSES?

No poker today. The Man from Athens is taking a couple of days off.

Let's pick up with the last bit of Kelso business from yesterday. In a democracy no one ever gets everything they want and right now 25% solid of the electorate is White Southern Baptist or Catholic crazy, and they seem to love a more retrograde system than that which obtained in the Socialist Golden Age of Ronald Reagan. Good for them and that's how it is. Though how much more retrograde do they want it? The Magna Carta was signed in 1066 and the Vikings had representative governement before that. Maybe the right thing to do is realize that this is their time, things have been worse in the past and will be better again and RELAX. Look, while those fuckers are enjoying the wars, ethnic prejudice, corporate power, beggaring of their own lives, and religious totalitarianism of this era in the USA, we can take some comfort that they have to suck it up and deal with abortion. Brokeback Mountain in 685 theaters, the de-natured sex on all the reality shows, and the growing rate of racial inter-marriage.

And there was eight years of Bill Clinton, one of the best Republican presidents in our history, certainly in a class with George Washington (don't write in; Kelso knows; Federalist)., TR (don't write in; Kelso knows; Bull Moose), Abraham Lincoln and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

It has been said that the left lost the political war and the right lost the culture war. And maybe that's enough -- for now -- the Consitution providing some means for change when it's time.

A hero of the honest right, however, John Stuart Mill, warned of the malign effects of the "tyranny of the majority." So why should a little cultural bullshit and Bill Clinton's presidency be enough when it has been one mind-and-ass-fucking from the initiation of the Whitewater investigation through Samuel A. Alito, Jr.?

There is another way, however. And it could happen tomorrow. It has nothing to do with Jack Abramoff, the Valerie Plame investigation, the fanstasy of impeaching Bush or anything like that. Oh no, it's much more radical and much easier. If the 2/3 of America's Jewish population who range in ideology from libertarian to Centrist Democrat to Communist had one hair on their asses and were to collectively say "THIS IS TOO MUCH LIKE ANOTHER TIME AND ANOTHER PLACE...NO, HELL NO, THIS WILL NOT STAND," change could come fast. If we were to exert pressure in the crucial areas of the American economy in which we DO have influence: Finance, Real Estate, Insurance, Entertainment, Accountancy, Law, Education, Science, Technology. Gambling and big-time Journalism -- a Collective General Strike, shutting the shit down by just staying home and reading a good book or watching TV instead of working, you had better believe attention would be paid. How would Archer-Daniels-Midland or any of the "family farmers" (ha!) who put these monsters in power because they were afraid of the queers move one bushel of corn without us in the Chicago pits? And that's just one example of the power we wield.

Kelso has no doubt that High-Church Protestants, African-Americans, immigrants of all stripe, the honest conservatives, and, yes, the hated White Separatist Militias would participate. Can you imagine the surprise in the Mountain West enclaves when this happens! Bush would be forced to capitulate -- at least on Iraq and Guantanamo -- or use the military to force us all back to work. Does anyone really believe the rank-and-file, mostly very young with a good percentage Black would be up for this? Not bloody likely. Do you think the brass could do this? You think one lone Colonel could perform a home invasion on even the most pacifist family? Mommy, Daddy and the kids would take his or her gun and shove it up his or her ass. End the wars, the round-ups, the extra-constitutional spying, the Patriot Act would just be a start. Most likely, we'd be able to say to the Monkey and his creepy organ-grinders "bitch, it's curtains."

Well, it's a nice fantasy anyway and pretty good high-concept movie, no?

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