SEND IN THE MOB
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010March 24, 2009
The blog below was written and published in the Greenwich Times on August 13, 2009. The Health Care Reform Bill was signed into law yesterday, March 23, 2010. The violence has started again, whipped up by the right-wing media, and various Republican Senators and Congressmen urging the fringed right-wing crazies on the balcony and in the halls of Congress. The crazies are throwing bricks and breaking the windows at Democratic headquarters, severing gas lines of Congressman who passed health reform, sending death threats and urging Americans to get out and clean their guns. Some of these radicals think God is on their side, while professing to being “pro-life”. Some people feel their freedom is being taken away from them, and the top-rung guys are feeling the deprivation and withdrawal from losing power. God bless us all.
MBR
SEND IN THE MOB!
SEND IN THE CLOWNS!
THE CIRCUS HAS COME TO TOWN – again
The political mob has three distinct tiers. On top are the “rich and powerful”. In the middle are the “communicators”. And on the bottom are the “action heroes”.
Usually, the “rich and the powerful” quietly enjoy the good life. They are successful, hard working and elegant puppeteers who eat in four-star restaurants, live in beautiful homes, have commanding jobs, went to the finest schools and belong to prestigious country clubs. Some of them are CEO’s bankers, insurers, money managers and drug manufacturers. Their lives are predictable. The idea of “change” in them causes distress and alarm. Change is not predictable! They don’t like it. It never occurs to them that change may be good for the other 99% of Americans.
At the present time we have seen a small amount of “change” – in the car industry, the monetary system, the Supreme Court, and choosing a mixed racial President. And, it looks like the health care industry may be about to make big changes.
The “rich and powerful” must have a big stake in the health care system not changing because they have reached down into their storage chests and pulled out their marionettes to perform. They are going full American stage on this one. They have elicited both their second tier “communicators” and their third tier “action heroes”.
The “communicators” are usually not as rich as the “rich and powerful”. They are rough around the edges but have a way of speaking which appeals to the average man. Their job is to project onto their audience feelings of anger and rage. They are very interested in the rating system and they work to get higher ratings and stimulate into action the common folk. If they do their job well they will see their own staged anger and rage exhibited in their audience, the man on the street. The “communicators” are entertainers, and are not true news people, even though they like to think they are “fair and balanced”. It is part of their “emperor has no clothes” mentality.
The communicators are guys and gals like Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly, Beck, Palin, Coulter and Bachman. They are masters at the tricks of language and confusion and get the man in the street to take what they say as the truth. They don’t allow fair debate. They don’t use fact or reasoning. They distort history. Their job is to excite the masses into action. They are trying to make a living and make a good salary at what they do. The “communicators” are all pretense.
The third tier is the real scary lower level puppets. They are the front line soldiers. Some are true believers of the message of the “communicators” while others are hired thugs. They are ready to go anywhere at any time. The busses, cars and planes are waiting to take them to where they are needed.
The “action heroes” put their bodies at risk and fight. They have a job, they are brave, and they will do whatever has to be done. They will shout, push, verbally assault, and kill when necessary. They believe what they do is right. We have seen them before. They killed Lincoln, Kennedy, Martin, and Bobby. They have killed great men and women before and they will do it again
In the political arena of the past, when a crime has been committed, it is usually the “action heroes” who go to trial and get convicted for their crimes. They do the crime and take the punishment. When the crimes are over, the “communicators” sometimes change their tune, sometimes lose favor with the people, or sometimes get fired. After the crime the “rich and the powerful” may have fleeting feelings of remorse, a few change their ways, but go on living the good life. The truth is: if a crime has been committed, every actor on this stage is guilty, whether they are the “rich and powerful”, the communicator”, or the “action hero”.
The atmosphere during this summertime 2009 is a time bordering on chaos, fear, mutiny and possible crime. We are in a time of “déjà vu all over again” as Yogi Berra liked to say. So………It’s time to stop the staging and the false rhetoric. It’s time to live the truth. It’s time to do the right thing. It’s time to work diligently on making the American Health Care System the best we can. History is watching us and will record what we do. …….just…… Cool it!
August 8, 2009