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Why this Summer, of all Summers?
The answer is simple: it’s a trick question with a false premise. There is no fabled evil Duopoly. There is only the myth of evil Duopoly, eagerly professed by the burned-out, the brain-damaged activists and the intellectually lazy. And eagerly clung to by those who’d much rather complain about the world’s problems than get off their butts and actually DO something about it.
“Run to the hills!” shout the Committee Of The Outraged, urging us to flee while there’s still time. But then why are they still sticking around and making themselves targets?
I think it's because THEY know they’re full of it, too.
See, belief in Duopoly means never having to take responsibility for your own lack of action. If the battle’s already lost, and there’s no chance of winning, then why even try? Just stand by the emergency exits and tell people to get out before they get burned, even though there’s no real sign of a fire in the theatre.
Even though, if the theory were true, the “exit” would most likely lead to a gas chamber.
Show me a believer in the great Duopolistic takeover of America and I’ll show you a grumpy paranoiac who sees a vast, sinister conspiracy behind every tree, and points out that there’s a whole lot of trees. I’ll show you a 9/11 Truther who thinks there were only two plane crashes, or maybe none at all. I’ll show you someone who’ll cling to any “fact,” or “testimonial,” or online petition just to bolster the argument that someone, somewhere, set up us the bomb.
I’ll also show you a paranoid lunatic who’s lost all right to call themselves “progressive,” or even “liberal,” and should instead be relegated to the same dogma dustbin as people who think the Protocols were real, we faked the Moon landings, and reptile people run the world.
But hey, it’s a free society. It’s a free world. I don’t get to tell people they can’t say what they want to say. That would be fascism, right?
And that would be bad -- and pretty evil Duopoly of me, huh?
So it’s a good thing we have so many criers of Duopoly Doom around on the interwebs. It makes it easier to figure out who’s worthy hooking up with and who ought to be ignored. Who knows what they’re talking about and who is talking out of something that should really be used to expel feces.
Who is going to confront Obama about the bad decisions he’s made so far and try to get him to reverse them, or at least do a better job of explaining why he made them.
Who is going to effectively make noise to make those mistakes visible, and explain why they’re wrong in a way that makes the right people listen, and makes everyone who gives a damn act on them.
Who is going to use their influence to influence others to put pressure on the folks up at the top to get them to change their ways.
You see, Obama’s not the second head of the single-bodied beast, but neither is he the savior of America. He is a politician. He is playing politics as he leads.
That’s what always happens when we vote someone in. All we can hope for is that, at the end of the day, we’ve convinced him to do more help than harm.
But someone has to convince him, and that’s OUR job.
