I submitted the same in February

Land of the Hicks (from Mark Sashine)

How can we take America back? We don’t.

There is always something good even in bad things and the only ‘good’ about Bush and Co. is that we saw who we are at last. Bush is our face. He came from us. We made him. And when our creation, our Frankenstein emerged, we saw him for the first time. And we are scared. We created a monster.
A monster, though, was there for a long time. We just did not see it. That monster was us, particularly our arrogance, our ignorance and our malice. We are malicious people, yes. Ugly too.
In the Y2004 when it was all that noise about the ‘debates’, even when there were still nine Democratic candidates and not just John ‘I surrender’ Kerry, I was surprised by one pattern: no matter what candidate it was, no one said anything negative about the electorate. NOT A WORD! Wow, our American people had trained their politicians big time. When Bill Cosby said something innocent about American Blacks, those words of criticism were booted back into him with so much ferocity that if used properly it would have ended the Iraqi war. Our politicians had figured it out; they are merciless to the individual but they suck to the People big time. If The People had an ass, that ass would be covered with saliva so thick that we could bathe in it. That’s how you win elections Clintonian style. And that is how Karl Rove operates too.

And that’s how you win elections when you ARE a man of the People:

‘ I have a speech here. It is a speech about what this state needs. But there’ no use telling you what the state needs. You are the state. You know what you need. Look at your pants. Have they got holes in the knee? Listen to your belly. Did it ever rumble for emptiness. Look at your crop. Did it ever rot in the field because the road was so bad you could not get it to the market? Look at your kids. Are they growing up ignorant as you and dirt because there isn’t any school for them?’

Whoa! If Willy Stark had said such things now to the good folks of Louisiana after the Katrina disaster they most likely would not have a Mardi Gras. Instead they would have demanded a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF THE KATRINA-INITIATED MASSACRE OF THE CITIZENS OF NEW ORLEANS! But there is no Willy Stark and there is no Huey Long and the children are still ignorant like dirt. Only they have three squares a day and a gun and they are fighting those Iraqis. Or maybe Iroquois? They can’t make a difference. And the people of Louisiana are dead.

A bunch of cowards and traitors seized power not because they are smart. Not because the liberals lost their connection to the conservative majority of the PEOPLE. They are there because it was an empty place. Nobody wanted that job except crooks, perverts and power mongers. We, the People f- cked ourselves out of the power. We were literally flattered to death. We didn’t want to work.

Oh, of course, we loved it. We loved being called brave. We loved being called free. But there was a condition- we didn’t want to be equal. No, Sir, I am better, Sir. Everything you can do I can do better. I can do anything better than you. Bullshit. Childish crap. Nonsense.

Why did the Supreme Court select Bush as President? Didn’t they know they were committing treason? Of course, they did. But treason is only treason if there is someone to betray. Look into the mirror, folks. There was no one to betray because there is no nation. Just a bunch of hicks. Oh, Willy Stark, he was right and so was Robert Penn Warren.

Hicks are not the nation. Hicks are insects. If you pour boiling water on the nest of hicks, they will scream but they will not fight. Patriot Act is such water. You pour it on them and then tell them that they all are patriots. They don’t know who they are, really. But you can explain to them that it is the voice of the PEOPLE in those paragraphs designed by some obscure pervert sublawyer, that those paragraphs will protect them from all enemies and if only they sacrifice their kids… Oh no, you don’t. say that. Instead you say that if only their kids defend freedom and our way of life, then everything will be hunky- dory, coffins and all.

Our way of life? What level of stupidity had we reached that Frankenstein tells us that our way of life is the best and we believe him. We don’t hack him to pieces. What is our way of life? Working our lives out just to see our children in debt since their adolescence? Outsourcing to India? To Pakistan? To Whateverstan? See Donald Trump and his third wife? Or maybe Oprah is our way of life? But look at our pants. They are made in China and they still have holes at the knees. And the schools, they are still lousy, otherwise our Mr. Ray Bradbury hadn’t been talking about ‘generation of morons’. Now, morons we are : we can build an incredible space device and then lose it because of the error in conversion between English and SI units. And the C- student can become a President. A nucelar one. Now the nuky guy has a plan. He says he knows how to provide us with new energy. Maybe we will make fuel from people? We certainly killed a lot of them. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS! We obviously know how to kill. The Earth is losing weight American style.

‘ Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud’

Bingo, Wille Stark! There are no saints. There are no Proud Americans. There are no Brave and there are no Free. There are only EQUAL. WE ALL ARE EQUAL IN THE EYES OF GOD! GOD DOES NOT RESIDE IN AMERICA AND LADY LIBERTY IS MADE IN FRANCE! F- CK you, hicks. Hicks you are and hicks you will be until you decide not to be ones anymore. And to do that you have to start by acknowledging the simple truth: YOU ARE NEITHER BETTER NOR MORE VALUABLE THAN ANY ANOTHER HUMAN BEING ON THIS PLANET! Painful? Tough? Live with it.
IT IS THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO DEATH!

We don’t take America back. We stop being hicks. And then America will return to us
like a lovely lady when she sees her man really becoming one.

by Mark Sashine (54 articles, 19 quicklinks, 250 diaries, 3597 comments) on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 12:35:07 PM