The Democratic and Republican Parties expect the average American citizen’s thought processes to shut down with the conventions.
I must admit to a certain amount of glaze forming over my eyes while considering the stuff shoveled in my direction over the past two weeks. It’s been prolific from the Republican’s anticipatory revelry shown throughout the well-organized convention in Tampa; to the contentious Democratic Party affair rejected by so many people refusing to attend. They were forced to move Beaurat Obama’s acceptance speech to an indoor venue so it would look like they actually had a crowd. God was rejected by the Democrats for awhile.
Orchestration is where you take music written by the author of the piece and then change it to suit your interpretation. Essentially you modify the phraseology of the individual musical passages and present either a pleasant rendition or you get something more people than not, hate. It happens with the National Anthem most every time a celebrity sings it. Celebrities think they know better how the piece should be done than the person wrote it.
And that’s where they get it wrong: every bloody time. American exceptionalism is based on the promise of success if you’ll work for it. It’s not something you get by standing on American soil. You’re expected to work for it.
The political parties’ promises are always noble. One advertises the incumbent needs to continue his virtuous quest. It’s like he’s some Arthurian knight claiming to return with the Holy Grail. Then you have the opposition party’s vision based on examining the knight’s record for accomplishing his goals and just how badly he got scuffed up failing to get the job done. Their vision is based on what they see. It looks past Sir Beaurat claiming the Grail is hidden in a saddle bag. Success is its own best advertisement. Obama will never succeed. The saddle bag has a hole in it.
But, for all of this bantering done in the marketplace and executed to the peasants in the center ring, the people still stand in the mud. They still deal with a certainty grounded in reality. While the knights errant of the king’s quest harangue the crowd concerning their new and enriched safety from dragons; the populace sees the knight sitting atop a horse above and away from the pig poo-doo the citizenry wades through daily.
Nobody’s all that impressed anymore.
Many people finally, after being fed the non-nutritive pap of “hope and change”, are expressing the disillusionment coming with being lied to on a regular basis. They now understand hoping for something is so much less rewarding than working for and gaining it. The people understand the soup kitchens erected by the state aren’t necessarily putting out a nutritious meal having NO costs.
They cost somebody who worked for a living and paid taxes as a legal requirement a lot more than is advertised as the unlimited largesse of the government. Some understand they’re recycling their taxes while being told the less they receive creates a morally superior stance for them in the public square. It’s immaterial that others not working grow in their possessions and use the old thought process that more possessions equal higher esteem and status in society. The morally superior give way to the morally bereft but economically enriched getting that way because they’re granted personal enrichment without having to work for it. This is in essence the very meaning of what an Entitlement Society is.
The metaphor shifts from the feudal simile to the Apiarian or the lives of Bees. The worker bees become disillusioned. They grow angry. But, by having the product of their labors legislatively removed from them, they’ve been mutated into Drones. They feel they have no stinger and thus are powerless to dethrone the monarch. They re-elect the one killing their drive to excel at the production they’ve been noted for in the world. The queen still looks good so that’s all that’s necessary; right?
Only militant political effort brings the change in government benefiting the whole hive. The workers must remove the power from those NOT entitled to the power.
Thanks for listening
