Reluctant Leaders

I respectfully suggest that NO ONE should be throwing their hats into the ring of machinations that constitutes “running” for office in America.

I say respectfully NOT because the process has any integrity.  In my view, it has NONE . . . unless it is to periodically remind Humanity just how low it can go.  In my considered opinion, politics are inherently corrupt.  In my considered opinion and in my Experience — beside which opinion pales — American politics have deteriorated into brazen opportunism, corruption and worse.  Yes indeedy, for all the cards that have been played on li’l ol’ me . . . for the record, that would include the Racist card, the Ku Klux Klan card, the Provocateur card, the COINTELPRO card, the Kook card, the Terrorist Card, the Embittered card, the Scorned Woman card and the Moron card — I am playing the Traitor card.

I say respectfully because the Offices which follow directly from our founding documents yet have merit and, if only owing to Laws of Probability, there are assuredly a Few Good People amongst the new crop of political aspirants.  For my money, we should grow more hemp and fewer politicians.

Wanting not to offend, rather to find a consensus large enough to seek refuge in, I will not dwell on the question that SOMEONE has to ask.  What sort of person seeks . . . early on, proactively and with considerable sums of other people’s money . . . to “run” to “win” a position of Power in a system that is only euphemistically called broken when it is undeniably RIGGED?  It’s like random online gamblers clamoring to sit at the high-stakes table with Card Sharks who are well known to CHEAT, and asking Other People to bankroll their play.  It is a superlatively bad bet.

There are some up-and-comers who are distinguishing themselves.  Adam Kokesh comes to mind, as a Congressman from New Mexico — I very much like the idea of an Iraq War veteran and active member of Iraq Veterans Against The War in a House of Representatives that seems entirely too willing to send Other People off to die.  For its striking-one-might-say-unholy willingness to sending Other People to their deaths, Congress is one place where it is possible to call for Fresh Blood without prompting censorship or prosecution by the Minister of Hurtful and Hateful Feelings.  None but the uneducated and the ill-intentioned could construe a call for Fresh Blood in Congress as anything other than metaphorical.

That said, I DO concur with Cicero about the execution of Traitors.  And hardy har har, it matters not whether it is sovereign nations or world government under discussion.  Either way, if a sovereign nation of People or a sovereign planet of People would maintain the integrity of a System by which masses of individuals can pursue life, liberty and happiness, those same people are OBLIGED to execute Traitors.  Mind, I am concurring with Marcus Tullius Cicero . . . who was executed for opposing dictatorship of Rome.

I trust it does not break any American laws to quote one of the most famous and well-regarded statesmen of the Roman Empire?

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

It is my resolute conviction that we have Traitors in our midst.  There is NOTHING cyclical or happenstance about the crisis through which we continue to lurch like drunken sailors on furlough.  No disrespect to the sailors, rather to the power-drunk, money-crazed Public Sycophants and Executive Slime.  

Let us PLEASE separate the wheat from the chaff before our wits and our wallets are overwhelmed by another parade of Pick Me! Pick Me! politicians.  If we will not first ride the Bad Guys outta town, the Bad Guys will marginalize whichever Good Guys MAY be coming down the pike.  The game is rigged, remember?  Who keeps playing by the rules with CHEATERS?  Stupidos and conspirers, that’s who.

By all means, file the infamous paperwork to be ABLE to “run” for office.  On pondering the peril that hangs over us like Damocles’ sword, also the hazy circumstances of Comrade Obama’s birth, it is possible to imagine that tidily dotted i’s and smartly crossed t’s may be the least of our concerns by the time elections roll around.

How ’bout a web site that serves as a registry of prospective candidates?  With brief bio’s, and each aspiring politician’s succinct positions on the same X number of questions.  I advocate a platform with ten clear-cut planks, reminding my beleaguered countrymen of the REALITY that God Himself has not inspired diligent observance of so long a To Do list.  

I IMPLORE countrymen who have MUCH more in common than they don’t to please Please PLEASE make what I appreciate is, for them, a GIGANTIC moral concession, notably taking abortion and gay marriage off the table.  Those bugaboos aren’t going awaywhere.  We can resume our circle jerks in six years — right where we left off, I expect.

SPARE ME about the number of innocent potential people who were not realized.  Look the other way and don’t think about it, same as with all our dead and their dead in Iraq.  And Afghanistan.  Eenie meenie miney mo . . .  Who’dya like for the trifecta, Iran or Pakistan?  Or North Korea?

SPARE ME about Gay Marriage altogether, just spare me.  THIS IS NOT THE TIME.  Unless the intent is TO divide the citizenry . . . y’know, drive impossible wedges between ALLIED CITIZENS to keep them stubbornly refusing to marshall their combined strength against a frighteningly powerful and thoroughly corrupt Super Elite.

It is a no-brainer that people who are campaigning for office pull their punches.  The argument, explanation and rationalization is that it’s the “only way” to win.  Stop already.  We assure one another all around that things “have to” happen certain ways and “can’t” happen other ways  – because that’s the way it is, because that’s the way it’s always been — and then, lo and behold, we are repeatedly “rewarded” by actualization of our very own self-fulfilling prophecies.  We are practically savants.

Let us not start throwing months and money away on egocentric campaigning.  Let us not already scatter our energies behind different candidates.  Let us not be so quick to throw in the towel on what THIS Administration and THIS Congress and THESE Robber Barons are doing.  It’s a little like planning the company Christmas party while embezzling proceeds unchecked.  

Americans are notorious for short attention spans.

Singleness of purpose is a mighty mighty concept.

RESTORE THE REPUBLIC.

There will be no restoration of the Republic, nor will confidence be restored to the market, unless we clear the decks of Traitors and Crooks.  Instead of vowing to REALLY do what needs to be done LATER, after another round of Campaigning As Big Business, let us for once in this increasingly miserable life do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.  If for a bona fide Change we will dispatch rather than delay our duties, I have no doubt that worthy statesmen will distinguish themselves . . . just like they did at the founding of the Republic.

By all accounts, General George Washington did not WANT to be president.  He was “simply” the best man for the job. Not the lesser of multiple evils, not the cream of the crop of the bottom of the barrel, but an American Patriot of unparalleled bravery, wisdom, strength, determination, effectiveness AND HUMILITY.  A Reluctant Leader.