acptulsa
01-04-2016, 02:50 PM
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And the friend of my enemy is my enemy.
I am tired of playing defense. The powers that be drive wedges, and we attempt to rush in and heal the rift. We can't do it fast enough. The nation is divided and we are conquered. Now, it's a month to Iowa and where are we, for all our twelve years of attempting to bridge the gaps they have created? Have we figured out yet that the best defense is a good offense?
They are masters. They know what buttons to push. But that isn't why they're masters. They're masters because they know what buttons not to push. We have attempted before to unify the American people by driving a wedge between them and the Head Psychotics in Charge. But most people have quite the herd mentality. And the last thing the herd wants to hear is that the top dog doesn't give a shit about any other member of the pack. Especially when the Top Dog is so good at making most every member of the pack feel oh so special and oh so appreciated.
But they also like to bite off more than they can chew. Being greedy, miserly bastards, the powers that be like to do many things with one investment. Take ISIS, for example.
Ask one of us, and you will hear that ISIS was created to give us a boogeyman to keep us too scared to question authority, or to allow a defense authorization to go unapproved. And so it was. But if you ask Syria, ISIS was created to depose Assad because we were too sick of war to stand idly by while the president send the Army and Marine Corps in to do it. And if you ask Iran, ISIS was created to do Saudi Arabia's dirty work. These things, too, are true. ISIS was the one stone created to kill three birds.
ISIS is our enemy. Try to convince someone otherwise. I dare you. I'd say it's like pulling teeth to convince a typical American that ISIS is something besides an enemy to every civilized human on the planet. But people pay dentists big bucks to pull their teeth. No one wants to hear anything good about ISIS at all.
ISIS is also Iran's enemy. Which makes it Saudi Arabia's friend. And Saudi Arabia is a friend to ISIS. I'm willing to bet proof of their collusion can be found, too. Which makes Saudi Arabia an enemy of the United States of America, and everyone in it.
And that makes every politician who ever kissed the Saudi ring an enemy to the United States of America, and everyone in it.
There are certain advantages to pushing this line. There are things that make it easy to put this over--far, far easier than some of the things we've tried before. There are things that we will accomplish if we put this thing over.
One of the things that makes this relatively easy to do is the fact that Saudi Arabia has one nasty government. They persecute, cane, and even behead Christians, for example. Can anyone say evangelicals? Another is that Saudi Arabia was the major force behind OPEC, and everyone old enough to remember the shock of first seeing gasoline being sold for the ridiculously high price of 50.9 cents a gallon has never trusted that government. Can anyone say The Senior Vote?
One of the things we would accomplish by demonizing them is that we would give the right wing and the left wing something in common. Oh, each may be convinced that the other hates Saudi Arabia for all the wrong reasons--that their persecution of Christians does not compare with their persecution of women, for example. But as long as they have a common enemy, it's all good. We could suddenly get conservatives watching the Michael Moore flick Fahrenheit 9/11. Not so long ago, that could never have happened, but Jeb has done us the favor of making the Bush family more or less irrelevant to Republican Team Players. I remember that Republicans would continue to defend Nixon right through the seventies, but by the Reagan Era, they were actually happy to throw the old bastard to the wolves. I say the time has come when Republicans will no longer stir themselves to defend the illiterate dunce. Obama has kissed the Saudi Royal Ring since then.
That means the time is right.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. By the same token, the friend of my enemy is my enemy. And Saudi Arabia is a friend to ISIS. Which makes any politician who kisses the Saudi Royal Ring my enemy.
This is a simple concept. If we were to meme it with the same sort of vengeance with which we put things over eight years ago, we could insert this into the national conversation. We don't want to put it out there specifically as a selling point for Rand Paul. Quite the opposite. It wouldn't be good salesmanship. Good salesmanship is putting the whole jigsaw puzzle together except for the last one or two pieces, then telling the person who came along and idly put those last pieces in what a genius they are for completing that whole puzzle. All we need to do is drive a wedge. If Saudi Arabia is suddenly and incontrovertibly the enemy of the United States of America, then every politician who ever kissed the Saudi Royal Ring (whether literally or just figuratively, by saying things in support of that nation) is our enemy. And that's most of them.
Think about it. At first glance, this might seem a silly-assed game. But talking about Ron Paul's eyebrows or Rand Paul's curly hair are silly-assed games, too. Yet with an uninformed, distracted, silly-assed electorate, shit like this works. This won't raise the defenses of Americans, because Americans have no vested interest in Saudi Arabia at all. This won't have Americans defensively thinking, 'Oh, this conspiracy couldn't have been going on because I could never have overlooked all the clues,' because it's a collusion that was presumably happening halfway around the world. It taps into the growing dissatisfaction with the situation we are in, and gives people a litmus test they can trust. It might raise horror over expensive gas, but with gas at a buck and a half a gallon I don't think that's such a raw nerve right now. People might even decide that's a risk worth taking for the sake of their nation and their future.
The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that the only thing that could keep this from driving a wedge between the American people and most of their politicians is our inability--or unwillingness--to jump in with both feet and put it over. You might say it's too remote a thing to have a major impact. I say that's the beauty of it--every time we make a direct, full frontal assault on the herd's love for those who slaughter them like sheep, we trigger their defenses. This isn't saying that there's something horribly wrong with the land that we love, this is saying there's something horribly wrong with Saudi Arabia, and we had better find out who among us loves Saudi Arabia too much and keep them out of power. Defenses avoided. I also say that it's a month to Iowa, and we have nothing to lose.
We can do this. Or, at least, there was a time this forum could do this. Are we de-fanged? Or are we red-blooded, freedom-loving American human beings with fight enough left in our guts to spare?
I am tired of playing defense. The powers that be drive wedges, and we attempt to rush in and heal the rift. We can't do it fast enough. The nation is divided and we are conquered. Now, it's a month to Iowa and where are we, for all our twelve years of attempting to bridge the gaps they have created? Have we figured out yet that the best defense is a good offense?
They are masters. They know what buttons to push. But that isn't why they're masters. They're masters because they know what buttons not to push. We have attempted before to unify the American people by driving a wedge between them and the Head Psychotics in Charge. But most people have quite the herd mentality. And the last thing the herd wants to hear is that the top dog doesn't give a shit about any other member of the pack. Especially when the Top Dog is so good at making most every member of the pack feel oh so special and oh so appreciated.
But they also like to bite off more than they can chew. Being greedy, miserly bastards, the powers that be like to do many things with one investment. Take ISIS, for example.
Ask one of us, and you will hear that ISIS was created to give us a boogeyman to keep us too scared to question authority, or to allow a defense authorization to go unapproved. And so it was. But if you ask Syria, ISIS was created to depose Assad because we were too sick of war to stand idly by while the president send the Army and Marine Corps in to do it. And if you ask Iran, ISIS was created to do Saudi Arabia's dirty work. These things, too, are true. ISIS was the one stone created to kill three birds.
ISIS is our enemy. Try to convince someone otherwise. I dare you. I'd say it's like pulling teeth to convince a typical American that ISIS is something besides an enemy to every civilized human on the planet. But people pay dentists big bucks to pull their teeth. No one wants to hear anything good about ISIS at all.
ISIS is also Iran's enemy. Which makes it Saudi Arabia's friend. And Saudi Arabia is a friend to ISIS. I'm willing to bet proof of their collusion can be found, too. Which makes Saudi Arabia an enemy of the United States of America, and everyone in it.
And that makes every politician who ever kissed the Saudi ring an enemy to the United States of America, and everyone in it.
There are certain advantages to pushing this line. There are things that make it easy to put this over--far, far easier than some of the things we've tried before. There are things that we will accomplish if we put this thing over.
One of the things that makes this relatively easy to do is the fact that Saudi Arabia has one nasty government. They persecute, cane, and even behead Christians, for example. Can anyone say evangelicals? Another is that Saudi Arabia was the major force behind OPEC, and everyone old enough to remember the shock of first seeing gasoline being sold for the ridiculously high price of 50.9 cents a gallon has never trusted that government. Can anyone say The Senior Vote?
One of the things we would accomplish by demonizing them is that we would give the right wing and the left wing something in common. Oh, each may be convinced that the other hates Saudi Arabia for all the wrong reasons--that their persecution of Christians does not compare with their persecution of women, for example. But as long as they have a common enemy, it's all good. We could suddenly get conservatives watching the Michael Moore flick Fahrenheit 9/11. Not so long ago, that could never have happened, but Jeb has done us the favor of making the Bush family more or less irrelevant to Republican Team Players. I remember that Republicans would continue to defend Nixon right through the seventies, but by the Reagan Era, they were actually happy to throw the old bastard to the wolves. I say the time has come when Republicans will no longer stir themselves to defend the illiterate dunce. Obama has kissed the Saudi Royal Ring since then.
That means the time is right.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. By the same token, the friend of my enemy is my enemy. And Saudi Arabia is a friend to ISIS. Which makes any politician who kisses the Saudi Royal Ring my enemy.
This is a simple concept. If we were to meme it with the same sort of vengeance with which we put things over eight years ago, we could insert this into the national conversation. We don't want to put it out there specifically as a selling point for Rand Paul. Quite the opposite. It wouldn't be good salesmanship. Good salesmanship is putting the whole jigsaw puzzle together except for the last one or two pieces, then telling the person who came along and idly put those last pieces in what a genius they are for completing that whole puzzle. All we need to do is drive a wedge. If Saudi Arabia is suddenly and incontrovertibly the enemy of the United States of America, then every politician who ever kissed the Saudi Royal Ring (whether literally or just figuratively, by saying things in support of that nation) is our enemy. And that's most of them.
Think about it. At first glance, this might seem a silly-assed game. But talking about Ron Paul's eyebrows or Rand Paul's curly hair are silly-assed games, too. Yet with an uninformed, distracted, silly-assed electorate, shit like this works. This won't raise the defenses of Americans, because Americans have no vested interest in Saudi Arabia at all. This won't have Americans defensively thinking, 'Oh, this conspiracy couldn't have been going on because I could never have overlooked all the clues,' because it's a collusion that was presumably happening halfway around the world. It taps into the growing dissatisfaction with the situation we are in, and gives people a litmus test they can trust. It might raise horror over expensive gas, but with gas at a buck and a half a gallon I don't think that's such a raw nerve right now. People might even decide that's a risk worth taking for the sake of their nation and their future.
The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that the only thing that could keep this from driving a wedge between the American people and most of their politicians is our inability--or unwillingness--to jump in with both feet and put it over. You might say it's too remote a thing to have a major impact. I say that's the beauty of it--every time we make a direct, full frontal assault on the herd's love for those who slaughter them like sheep, we trigger their defenses. This isn't saying that there's something horribly wrong with the land that we love, this is saying there's something horribly wrong with Saudi Arabia, and we had better find out who among us loves Saudi Arabia too much and keep them out of power. Defenses avoided. I also say that it's a month to Iowa, and we have nothing to lose.
We can do this. Or, at least, there was a time this forum could do this. Are we de-fanged? Or are we red-blooded, freedom-loving American human beings with fight enough left in our guts to spare?