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May
30, 2003
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Agenda
The Tick is
Clocking
By BEN TRIPP
You look at the way this White House is feeding
turds through the fan and you wonder how they can possibly expect
to get away with it: pardon my coprolalia, but it seems this
administration is hell-bent on spraying dookie over the world
like some Brobdinagian chimpanzee after a fish taco & bourbon
jag. Yet whenever anyone calls its minions on the subject, they
just chortle in a hearty manner, yodel "Bwaaaah!",
and carry on regardless. Left-wing pundits are shaking their
heads like schoolmarms, perspiring from a combination of schadenfreude
and alprazolam. They know with certitude that
the Bush gang will be going down hard, and soon, and it will
be a lot of fun, and they can hardly wait. Any day now Pretty
soon Only a matter of time... Waiting After all, these swines
can't get away with it, can they? I mean sure, for a while,
but not forever? Here's the bad news. They don't have to.
In another year the damage will be done,
and the reigning Straussian dung-pirates can retire from the
field, high-fiving and slapping each other on the asses. A century
of democratic advances will have been rolled back. They're going
to party like it's 1899. The 20th Century will be looked upon
(by the advanced race of cockroaches that must inevitably replace
mankind, probably by mutual agreement) as a period during which
the world, and particularly the United States, began to confront
the inequity between human ideals and the human condition. Progress
was spotty, but by the end of the century American women could
vote and black people were lynched in court, not on the street,
which is a big step up. Some safeguards against destitution
and misery had been put in place. There were some vague systemic
commitments to the ideas of international law, human rights,
and the need for an equable distribution of opportunity to all
people-Even queers and animals got the occasional break. This
has all been undone. The 20th Century need never have happened.
But women still have the vote, you cry,
spilling Chablis on your knitted tie. Damn you for a lubber,
I reply, eyes flashing with righteous thunder and a touch of
conjunctivitis. Nobody has the vote, you goddamn fool.
Even white men don't have the vote any more, unless they happen
to vote the way the machine chooses to vote for them; and white
men have always had the vote, one way or another. All those
Reagan-era canards have come to roost: rolling back racial quotas?
What the hell does that mean, except "coloreds need not
apply"? And if you think the rich should get big tax cuts
even if they can afford to pay more, remember those taxes pay
for that thing known collectively as 'America'- its public lands,
its public infrastructure, such as schools, roads, and utilities;
its military, its everything. If rich people don't pay those
taxes, you will. Rich people don't need the American infrastructure
because they have their own, and that's what this tax cut is
for. It's libertinism at the top and libertarianism for everybody
else. By strangling the entire civic infrastructure these wealthy
few can keep all the blood in the head and kill off the body,
according to their way of thinking. Apparently the notion of
being attached to a giant rotting corpse doesn't bother them,
but why should it? Like cockroaches, they seem to thrive on
decay.
A vast groundswell of disapproval is
rising up across the nation and around the world such as has
not been seen since (I can't think of an amusing analogy, so
feel free to just come up with your favorite one and send it
to this author along with five dollars. Thank you.) This disapproval
will eventually result in the overthrow of the Administration.
So what? It is clear that these dacoital dacnomaniacs care
nothing for the radamantine glare of posterity (unless Bush himself
does, dimly hoping for a legacy while the others giggle behind
his back) and so the smug certitude that they'll be hoist by
their own immense petards gets us nowhere. These guys don't
care what happens. They will lie and cheat and wage war on America
and Iran and any-damn-body they please, just as long as the peanut-studded
coprolith of the domestic economy stays below the fold on the
front page. "State's business," they'll maintain,
until half of the governors are on hunger strike on the White
House lawn. By then, the 2004 elections may be over, and if
the Republicans get lucky and secure another four years in the
canebrake with Bush, all the better. They can make the damage
irreversible by making resistance against the law. If by some
computer error Bush is defeated in 2004, no big deal either:
the courts will be stacked, the land laid waste, and unimaginable
fortunes secured for the faithful few.
I'll say it again: the men in power in
America today don't need to be popular. They don't need to stay
in power. The fact that they have gotten this far is a near-miracle
of media apathy. If they can just hang on for the rest of Gore's
term as president, they will have done the damage they set out
to do, finishing the demolition of the Great Society and securing
their wealth and privilege for what amounts to forever in this
life. All they need is another year to complete the work. After
that, let the liberals triumph as they may-they will merely have
secured the sinking ship for themselves, catcalling after the
plush lifeboats receding in the distance.
As for me, I'm wakerife and morne, but
hope springs eternal. I don't know how she does it what with
those leg irons on, but spring she does, and so I continue to
hope that rather than sit back and let Bush and his facinorous
myrmidions finish their wicked work -and they are damn close
to finished- the remains of the Democratic opposition will decide
it's time to get an impeachment on, instead of sniping at each
other so the media has lots of tar to spread on all of them,
in quotes, at election time. If not an impeachment, at least
the Dems could stay on message and follow up on an issue. Any
issue. Like what about the stalled investigation of 9-11? What
about those WMD's over which we invaded Iraq (or was it Iran
or Syria? I get so confused.) What about Enron, or the small
matter of Bush's desertion during time of war? Anybody? Now
is the time to stop them. Because these people aren't playing
to win, they're just playing for time- and they don't need much
more of it.
Ben Tripp
is a screenwriter and cartoonist. Ben also has a
lot of outrageously priced crap for sale here. If his
writing starts to grate on your nerves, buy some and maybe he'll
flee to Mexico. If all else fails, he can be reached at: credel@earthlink.net
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