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• Friday, December 5, 2008 02:05 PM

  Re: Peace, Love, and Understanding

  My, my, my. The fog is thick outside my window at the airport. And brain fog is pretty thick amongst some of the fine posters here at UT.

  All you Revolutionaries need to get together, you know, and, like, Make Revolution already. No? Instead you get all hot and bothered when somebody like me says, "You know what? It's not going to happen. Not from the Left. If it happens, it's gonna happen from the Right." Something everybody already knows and chatters about incessantly. So they say. Of course they lie, but what the hell...

  Sacrilege! Sacre bleu! You can't say that, and anyway, what Reagan did wasn't a Revolution, it was a Reaction. Know your terminology! Busheviks and Reaganites are all Reactionaries!!!

  Revolution is only possible from the Left? OMG. Now who doesn't know what they're talking about? Jeebus, what complete poppycock.

  History lesson: Reaganism was intended to remake the United States Government into what it is today: corrupt, militaristic, imperialistic, corporatist, lawless, and autocratic. You may think it was always like this. That's your right, and that's what Reaganites and Busheviks want you to believe, everything was always just as bad as it is now. Reaganism proceeded by purging the taint of Progressivism from government operations. You know, things like regulations, ultimately the rule of law itself. You can call that a reaction if you want (and you'd be justified), just as you can call it a revolution (and you'd be justified.) The point is, it was successful and we're all living with the wretched and worsening results.

  We've had almost thirty years of this shit, and there has been no uprising, hardly even a serious protest against this revolutionary/reactionary crap from the Left. Is it because adnoto or Glenn or I didn't lead the masses in a Long March to Victory? No. It's because the masses aren't all that troubled by this crap. "Organization" isn't going to make them be troubled by it, either. As a friend said a little while back, as long as they have their take and bake pizza and big screen teevee, they don't care.

  Take their pizza and teevee away, actually or metaphorically, all hell will break loose.

  But it won't make them demand a restoration of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, won't make them require an end to torture, won't make them want to ensure equal treatment under the law, or universal health care coverage, or decent wages for honest work, or an end to the forclosure nightmare, or end military and imperial adventures or really any of the things most of us believe are important.

  And that's the truth.

  The shattered economy, the obvious theft from the Treasury, the horrendous jobless numbers, the millions forced out of their homes, the gross corruption of government, its lawlessness and arbitrary "justice," the disastrous military adventures, the natural and man made calamities, none of this has so far triggered wide-spread action beyond the restricted and accepted political norms.

  What passes for the Left has a whole lot invested in those norms and isn't going to do much of anything -- no matter what -- to jeopardize what little normalcy remains.

  On the right, however, it's a whole other ball game. If they see their (Reaganite) revolution jeopardized, or even if their access to pizza and big screen teevee is threatened, they've got nothing to lose by fighting to back. And they will.

  And in the meantime, may you all gain Peace, Love, and Understanding...

  "When the moon is in the Seventh House

  And Jupiter aligns with Mars

  Then peace will guide the planets

  And love will steer the stars..."

  —Ché Pasa Read Ché Pasa's other letters
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