Women have babies,
men get to have epiphanies, we all get to have opinions. Having experienced Republican anger
since the advent of our second Irish president, O'bama and now
seeing it from opponents of Trump, I realized it's not so much
ideology that makes a sorehead but location on the losing side. I
thought it must require a particularly inspiring candidate to arouse
such emotion. That felt like a minor epiphany but the real one came
as I looked at an issue of Saturday Evening Post featuring a Rockwell
of husband berating wife because her man Truman had beaten his
Dewey.
Apparently this is a
regular part of the democratic process. Not only regular but one of
the key elements to its survival and the most exquisite protection
for the government. Instead of directing our feelings toward the
elected villain, who lives beyond our reach, we take it out on each
other. All the indignation stays right here at ground level
circulating amongst the rabble while the elected look upon the beauty
of it, as an institution untouchable, realizing we'll blame each
other for the wrongs they commit. Separated into opposing teams and dehumanized into
categories of liberal and conservative, right and left, better yet blue and red
granting a geographical affiliation, our fellow voters who merely
have exercised their democratic obligation, present an easy target
for half a nation's anger at having to submit to their will.
Laboring under the
delusion that we choose our rulers and the whopper that they are in
place to serve us, we are thus prepared to war, killing not the
instigators but their innocent chattel, the inhuman Japs, Krauts,
Gooks and Towel Heads- people like us whom we perceive possessed of a different
outlook. Now that's synergy.
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