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 December 15th

 

AWAKENING!

 

By Jack Parnell - retired Congressman and Independent Presidential candidate

 

Syndicated by Acme Features

  

 

"In a question of right and wrong, never be neutral." 

 

 

- Theodore Roosevelt

 

          There's a story Indians tell... those Indian Indians, that is, from the country  they call India, as they must be... 'bout seven blind men and just one ol’ elephant as somehow dodged Don Junior’s bullets. An Indian grabs hold its trunk and says "elephants must be a sort of snake". Another pinches its ear and decides an elephant's just a big old leaf, covered in wrinkly skin; others as touch its tail, tusks, feet and so on make up other explanations. None of those blind Indians ever had one right idea about elephants, on their ownsome, but, if you slapped 'em all together, why... there it was!

          Of course if that elephant tired of being pinched by blind, from-India-Indians, it might have just turned round and swatted 'em... then it wouldna made a pinch of difference what nature of a beast it was! Back in the eighteenth century, most as could read took comfort in what the likes of Adam Smith believed: working people were permanently broken in spirit, like farm animals, by their hard, monotonous labor. So termites thought to pinch 'em harder, pay them less and less, but finally the hunger in their bellies woke 'em up instead! People got mad, you had the American and French revolutions, then all kinds of Communist and anarchist seditions and, finally, unions... as would take another century to shrink back to only 7% of non-government labor on account of being so corrupted into the uselessness that even the people whose grandparents they’d saved sneered “Pass ‘em by.”

          That is the curse of Entropy, whether it infects the public or the private sector, left or right. They just can't help themselves! Dick Nixon was going to make roadkill of those weenie McGovern Democrats no matter what, in '72, but had to sic the IRS on his enemies’ list and greenlight the break-in and coverings-up at Watergate, win Massachusetts and maybe even D.C., he couldn't help himself! (Djonald Unchained Trump remembered that and let Muller do his Muellering around, despite some of his cronies having to go to the klink but then beached and impeached himself bribing the President of f***ing Ukraine, a f***ing comedian – and on Hunter Biden’s turf, besides – less the cocaine). We had Gary Hart doinhis thing, as in that movie, then Slick Willie - who had that Arkansas State Patrol, then his Secret Service, bringing him all the strange as could compete in quantity, if not quality, with his idol, JFK (the whisky-man's boy, not the pickle husband as replaced Hillary at State, took his shot in oh four kept flying around the world telling folks how sorry we Americans are for bein’ Americans and was now, once again, among the top three or seven Donkey Prospects for the 2020 if convention delegates can’t make up their minds). Warn't enough! Had to drop his pants in front of civilians in hotel rooms, finally, desecrate the people's White House with cigar follies out'n that "Cabaret" movie. Couldn't help himself!  The applause and polls went to Junior's head after Afghanistan - Congress wouldn't let him invade Iran or Syria, so he dived into Iraq.  We got Edwards, McGravy… whatever his name was… Congressman (and rejected Mayor) Weiner, the other rich guy in New York and Secretary Flynn.  Hastert!  Al “I’m good enough, dammit” Franken!  The Urban Spaceman grabbed a Nobel before even serving a day in office, then pulled troops out’n where they shoulda been pushed in and vice versa, raised the Nixonian flag on them thar’ wiretaps and IRS follies and conjured up a healthcare scheme that, frankly, owed more to Kaiser Bismarck than Karl Marx.  Which brought us to the Donald, the midnite Tweeter (apologies to Jagger/Richards), as paid shady ladies to slap his rear end with pictures of himself – probably get re-elected because the donkeys think their donkey-feuds more important than the security and reputation of America, and then got steamed at the European bankers, the Colombians and Venezuelans, so we invaded Costa Rica. We couldn't help ourselfies!

          Caught with the fingers in the till and classified documents destination Moscow... Russia, not Idaho... in the storage locker?  Repeal the Constitution.

          President Joe and Doctor Jill seem like a nice couple, by contrast… probably too nice.  Too nice to the Taliban, to the tax and spend liberals, the spend but don’t tax conservatives and to the Manchin Sinema show between them… too nice to flash mob looters, high school shooters and the billionaires.  Too nice to TreaSec Yellin, even after she admitted that she’d flunked the Inflation Test and to the dolts as ran up student loan bills and whine they can’t afford even the vig on a hundred twenty five thou a year.  Satan preserve us from the depradations of the nice people.

          A Catfish economy would cut student loan forgiveness in half after sixty thousand per annum and by nothing above a hundred.  I know that’s unfair to them as have to live in rent-gouging places on the East and West Coast to get the good jobs as find techsters and texters making that hundred thou and surrendering eighty thou back to the slumlords for their closet-sized apartments, but they’ll just have to move, take their jobs with them and make those rent-gouging honey traps into Detroit.  Better all around.

          Entropy can't help itself either... which is why people keep coming together to kick it in the nuts every generation or so. It's waited out Teddy and Frank Roosevelt, Henry and Georgie Wallace, Ross Perot and certain others, but, as wrote former Democratic Senator David Boren, after the 1995 polls showing 57% of Americans (up to 64% a decade later, 68% now) want at least one serious third-party option and the feeling’s even stronger among young people. And that ain’t the Greens - as want to make everybody drive a $75,000 electric car, eat tofu and nearly nominated Roseanne to run for President, stage left, before coming out as a true believer in Trump’s Deep State and the kindly intentions of the Russians.  Nor Libertarians… sorry, Rand, sorry guy who never heard of Aleppo… you shot your wad in ’16 by not nominating that computer guy as murdered his neighbors in Belize.  (Allegedly.)  And they did it again by rejecting Vermin Supreme in favor of some stiff white guy in a stiff white suit who’d take out his little Ayn Rand book and hector you like Jehovah’s Witnesses.  Show some guts and if the G.O.P. treats Djonald the way he treats his own people and pick… oh… Jeb?, nominate one of the three latest Capital Riot conspirators as claim to be libs… Roger Stone, Alex Jones or Steve-O Bannon,  "There is no reason to believe that the United States is immune to major changes in party structure which are impacting nations like Japan,” Boren warned. “The people will not forever tolerate a party system which forces them to choose the lesser of two evils."

          2020 was not forever but… on the other hand…

          Biden?  Trump? Again???

          Well, how about RFK Junior?  Or Manchin.  Or Liz Cheney... who says she hates Djonald, but would poach enough Donkeycrat votes to ensure his restoration.

          As Washington throws up walls of dried New World Ordure, states are quietly decoupling with a repressed fury unseen since December, 1859.  Oklahoma, Nevada and Tennessee state legislatures passed various resolutions of unwelcomement to the UN peacekeepers and two counties on Michigan's Upper Peninsula actually passed laws against selling 'em food.   (Let ‘em eat herring!)  Them as consider the new immigration laws proposed by POTUS to be bogus have topped thirty.  Sixteen states, now, hundreds of mayors, city and county administrators and thousands of neighborhood watchdog committees, as trust neither Washington nor their own state legislatures, have passed resolutions reaffirming the 10th Amendment that reserves to them all powers not expressly delegated to DeeCee and making Wall Street shysters shiver the way people used to do with the Yellow Fever.  And that’s not even mentioning the near-open state of insurrection in Alaska, as now seems to be attempting a sesquicentennial revanché with them Russians or that on-again, off-again Texas Governor as called for mandatory AK-47 carry in schools, bars and churches, bringing back secession and fighting the Civil War all over again, went to Washington and now gets catcalled as the moderate in the Trump cabinet.

          That online petition place has now racked up 1.2 million likes for the likingness of trashing the Constitution and going back to the Articles of Confederation.

          Barry Goldwater went to his reward believing extremism in the defense of liberty was no vice, but what people see now in Washington is just plain extremism in the service of just plain greed, and without a John McCain or Bob Dole to put on the brakes.  The only check on the racial and partisan hate (and proletarian self-hate) as infects gumment is that the money-boys riding both elephants and donkeys want to be sure that spoilers don't get into the race. The human face of the Republican Party's become a corporate bureaucrat as waves “Mein Kampf” and lays off Americans as, then, get told by Democratic faces in gumment offices that they'll have to submit to urinalysis, anger-management seminars and twelve page twelve-step forms to fill out before being put on a waiting list for the children's medicine and surplus cheese.

          At least that last might be a multicultural or intersectionary face.  Those idiots among the donkey boys (and girls, gay little ponies and those mules as possess the gender of either or neither sex of equine tendancies) have ruint another good American word… “Awakening” (which, essentially, means to stop believing in the lies… any lies, told by any stripe of politician and for any reason)… and, like the piratical Democrats as low-jacked “progressive”, have gelded the notion with their cloudy, clown-concept of the “woke” America… meaning any as whom, out of guilt or greed, enlist in the peanut-gallery of silliness.

          One does not have to be a self-hating rich white liberal to become “awakened” as opposed to “woke”, one simply has to have the capacity for discerning, then rejecting, the liberal lies as well as those of the so-called conservatives (i.e. the crooked or just plain mean people).  Practicing discrimination!  We shall name the names of the naughty and nice as our movement progresses and those who espouse meaningless and vapid language and rituals shall stand exposed by their words and their gestures and then those as flimflam Americans the way Mister Trump did shall be opposed in 2024.  

Our CNC face... race and gender inclusive, near as I can see the manufacture of it... should be an old fashioned American milkman, going door to door in his truck (or... once the oil's gone... a horse and buggy as will recruit more of the greenies to our side). Some Americans of a certain age remember milkmen, and wish we had 'em back. It's the Neighborhood Watch volunteer with a wink for the children... and a carbine slung over his shoulder for them as persist in being up to no good.

          What the CNC brings to America's table is its enthusiasm and... at the risk of losing the few Virtuecrats as already don't have us on their list of naughties... a sense of adventure. Fun, even!  For us, not Vladimir Putin, nor the G-7!

          There's an attitude I take in helping see the CNC erected from the ground up, like a kid at Christmas experimenting with plastic building logs. Refuse to concentrate on those as don't fit and get mad, pay attention to those as do and politics can be fun as taking a pint and rifle out to the county dump to blow away a few dirty rats!

          I think we understand that Donald Trump will win in the primaries (he could have had a chance if a huge field destroyed one another, but no he has to contend with Kanye siphoning off enough of his votes to throw the nomination to Mike Pence or somebody from Florida.  And if, perchance, he failes, then Trump will run as an independent and vie with Ye to gain the endorsement of Nick Fuentes.  Given the Sharpton/Farrakhan/2Crazy/Jackson axis of other mattering, nattering blackiness simultaneously deriding their exiled President and casting him as a martyr, that M-Thirteen "Christian" party as seems to have come into being after the incumbent broke his promise to deport twelve million Catholic Mexicans inside thirty days and those beer-drinkin’ conservative Supremes slapped restrictions on just how much probable cause police needed to dragnet them... might be two Christian parties jumping the Trump and siphoning off votes from the elephant men, one pre-millenial, one post!... and stage left, various leftover Greens flush with roubles, dropped-out liberals, socialists, gays, bitter Berniecrats, Hollywood celebrities, feminists and other practitioners of identity politics... with, maybe, the sons of Brother Ross and the Reform remnants rallying behind fired attorney Rudy Giuliani (now that his client stabbed him and Ivanka in the back?); that the powers that be in the Deep State are preparin’ them Saturday Night Live clips of him in a dress means ol’ Rood is to be taken seriously as either a Republican challenger or third (twelfth?) party candidate.  Hey – he’s about the right age for the job!  Or how about Coffee Man or that other New York Mayor… not that tossed-out Billy D as polled behind the psychic and those Mayors of Notre Dame and someplace in Florida last go-round who garnered Federal jobs for their unelectable gall, but the one with lots of money and his own magazine, too, as wanted to lock up people who drink soda plus some inevitable October surprise, and you've got Constitutional goulash as smells frightening to some, but... to the CNC... reeks of opportunity.

          Well, a little competition... the desperate attempts afoot to close off ballot access to all but Uncle Joe and the MAGA-millionaire, the pole-vaulting Termite Twins duly noted... makes for strong bodies, and stronger wills, as are gonna be necessary. Because when a party founded on Catfish principles of charity, thrift, justice, enterprise and common sense wins, the Democrats and Republicans are not just going to let us take over. No... I firmly believe they'll do anything, up to and including ordering police and soldiers to fire on our crowds, like in Belarus, Syria, Paris, Hong Kong, Mariupol and Costa Rica, to keep power and, if they refuse, the DeVos clan will emerge from their caves of exile and commission their Blackwater mercenaries to mount a coup.  A proper coup... even Betsy Wetsy herself ratted out Djonald to the one-sixers to the effect that his plotting wasn’t just evil, it was incompetent.  Those ten weeks between election and inauguration weren't a tenth of the time needed to overthrow the Constitution and shred documents as would send vast quantities of our legislative, executive and judicial termites marching off to prison!

          Those Indian people I mention... or, maybe, the Chinese... have a saying: "may you live in the interesting times". It's a curse. But, the building of Renaissance requires a cleansing as has to be performed from the ground up, I would prefer to second Daniel Boorstin, the author and former Librarian of Congress as coined the term "American Exceptionalism". We are Exceptional, not only for being the Land of the Free, or the Brave, (racist slur!), but for having been... and, let us hope, still being... "the land of the blessedly Unexpected."

 

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