A Scenario

I was advised that this scenario would not be entertained on anywhere else. The member that I discussed it with couldn’t, or wouldn’t explain why. I was just trying to understand the great disparity between the goals of Free Republic at the About Free Republic webpage and all the policies of Free Republic that are diametrically opposed to the goals.

This very expressive, dedicated Christian conservative member became decreasingly communicative with every attempt of mine, to simply understand the enigmatic aspects of that political website. All communication of this nature ceased when I suggested that the site change its name to Alice’s Republic; because it is an adventure in Wonderland, with all its colorful cast of characters there.

As I was checking out of the rabbit hole, I heard a faint voice from Hotel California, a cowering soul, mumbling what sounded like “Free Republic.” I didn’t catch the screen name of the captive free spirit; but the Red Queen did. And, you know, “Off with his head;” just like Lewis Carroll said. So, they are playing strictly by that surrealistic script in their “Theater of the Absurd.”

This hypothetical is for the sole sake of discussion at Free Republic. It wishes no harm to anyone. It must have been imagined by others, though I haven’t seen anything like it. But something similar must have occurred to many others.

This is not a wish, hope, or dream, or anything like that. It’s just to probe the thoughts of thinkers. And in the current state of political affairs, it seems that anything is thinkable, but the right thing. There seems to be a national aversion to the right thing, coupled with a natural inclination to the wrong things – two of which are running for Tyrant in Chief.

This hypothetical concerns that bipartisan race, between a pair of horses, one of which is two-faced. It may be better to call them thoroughly bad, than thoroughly bred. We don’t want to give thoroughbreds or any horse a bad name; even though horses and those two racers are full of the same. Makes you want to sign-up to kill crazies in the Mid-East, just to get away from the stench of those two beasts. If not, you must be part of the REVOLution, and in a quandary about where to flee for your life and liberty, with your property in tow and hopes of happiness all aglow.

Anyway, both horses, one white & one black, move into the starting gate. There is a good crowd in attendance. The white horse is considerably older than the black horse; and is subject to expiring at any moment. Well, it does in the starting gate. Here one minute and gone the next. It’s possible, isn’t it? Life happens and so does death. And for sole sake of discussion, assume that old white horse had heart failure from too much primary race stress. (This is just for sake of discussion; with nothing but the very best of wishes to all animals. It’s just a harmless analogy used only for purposes of illustration. No member of the animal kingdom is in danger here.)

Everyone wants to see a race every four years; but there must be a protracted funeral procession first. And this extended time gives the owners of the black horse opportunity to think, while the white horse fans attend to funeral duties.

Both owners have lengthy discussions during and after the funeral; and reach a tentative agreement that must be presented to the white horse fans prior to proceeding as agreed. The black horse will run under the colors of the white horse against an old white mare running under the former colors of the black horse. Put another way, the black horse only changed running colors, nothing else.

In times past, this would have been outrageous; but times are a changin.’ And change is all anyone has, or wants, provided it’s only change of pace maintained in the wrong direction.

The young, galloping black horse recently beat the old, loping white mare. So, the white horse fans with the new black horse have a proven winner! And all they ever cared about was winning. It didn’t matter how they did it; because they had a very big tent to please. The black horse fans get to see their old white mare lope again, under their own colors; and regardless of which horse wins, they win. So, it’s a win-win situation for the black horse fans. Will the white horse fans take the magnanimous offer and cheer for their new black horse on race day?

Do you think Free Ripublic, J. Dobson, Rod Parsley, John Hagee, both Limbaughs, Annie Coulter, P.J. Buchannan, Eagle Forum, Human Events, NewsMax, Gary Bauer, Washington Times, Fox News, Weekly Standard, Pat Robertson, Mike Huckabee, Wall Street Journal, National Review, First Things, Christian Science Monitor, Southern Baptists, Northern Methodists, Eastern Catholics and Californian crazies would cheer Obama to victory? The correct, unqualified, unequivocal, answer is obvious, isn’t it? Its saliency slaps you in the face with a liberal dose of bone-chilling reality, in a way you’ll never forget.

They are all in it to win it, no matter what. Like Dobson said, they can change their Collective Mind in midstream. But…there’s that notorious word again, “BUT!” Seems the GOP invented it: “I’m pro-life; but….” Substitute whatever Constitutional text you want for the term “pro-life” and you get the same phrase, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. So, there may be a slight problem with the otherwise obvious outcome of this scenario. It could be the deal breaker – the proverbial last straw on the ungracefully aged Pachyderm’s back.

Have you already guessed it and beat the agonizingly slow hunt-&-peck typing to the all too obvious punch line? If you are a political junkie, you knew the answer from the start. In fact, you recognized the scenario at first mention of the word. But, political novices need a reminding clue of the prominent, defining characteristic mentioned in the opening description of the race horses. The Republican Party faithful would notice it at first glance, while looking the “gift horse in the mouth.” Obama has only one face; and the Party faithful always demanded two! What would you do?

What are they going to do? “What would the brilliant Rove do?” Grow him a conservative face, just for the race!

That’s the hypothetical presented with no harm intended to any party animal, or anyone’s political hyper-sensitivities; and well wishes to all, but contra-revolutionaries.

“enjoy one of Areopagus’ little toys”

Thank You!

Now on my favorites list. I will try not to abuse it, here, at least, too often.

“My complaint about Film Actors Guild (FAG)
The following letter is inspired by a quote from Thomas Paine: “He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” In the first place, if I didn’t think Film Actors Guild (FAG) would flush all my hopes and dreams down the toilet, I wouldn’t say that it would not hesitate to slander those who are most systematically undervalued, underpaid, underemployed, underfinanced, underinsured, underrated, and otherwise underserved and undermined as undeserving and underclass if it felt it could benefit from doing so. The two things I just mentioned — the way that I can no longer brook Film Actors Guild (FAG)’s narrow-minded claims and the fact that it’s not a question of if but only of when it will lay the foundation for some serious mischief — may sound like they’re completely unrelated, but they’re not. The common link is that it appears to have found a new tool to use to help it deploy enormous resources in a war of attrition against helpless citizens. That tool is gnosticism, and if you watch it wield it, you’ll unmistakably see why it is on some sort of thesaurus-fueled rampage. Every sentence Film Actors Guild (FAG) writes is filled with needlessly long words like “philosophicotheological” and “indistinguishableness”. Either it is deliberately trying to confuse us or else it’s secretly scheming to create massive civil unrest.

Film Actors Guild (FAG) says that everyone would be a lot safer if it were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions — even our library records. Why on Earth does Film Actors Guild (FAG) need to monitor our library records? The answer is almost totally obvious — this isn’t rocket science, you know. The key is that an understanding of the damage that may be caused by Film Actors Guild (FAG)’s mealymouthed conclusions isn’t something I expect everyone to develop the first time they hear about it. That’s why I write over and over again and from so many different angles about how Film Actors Guild (FAG) demands that we make a choice. Either we let it blame our societal problems on handy scapegoats or it’ll manipulate the public like a puppet dangling from strings. This “choice” exemplifies what is commonly known as a “false dichotomy” or “the fallacy of the excluded middle” because it denies other alternatives, such as that once you understand Film Actors Guild (FAG)’s snow jobs, you have a responsibility to do something about them. To know, to understand, and not to act, is an egregious sin of omission. It is the sin of silence. It is the sin of letting Film Actors Guild (FAG) condemn innocent people to death.

I must point out that Film Actors Guild (FAG) has, at times, called me “short-sighted” or “hypocritical”. Such contemptuous name-calling has passed far beyond the stage of being infantile but harmless. It has the capacity to create a climate of intimidation. We wouldn’t currently have a problem with quislingism if it weren’t for Film Actors Guild (FAG). Although it created the problem, aggravated the problem, and escalated the problem, Film Actors Guild (FAG) insists that it can solve the problem if we just grant it more power. How naïve does it think we are? Truly, I have some of Film Actors Guild (FAG)’s writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Film Actors Guild (FAG) maintains that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power. If you don’t find that shocking then consider that this has been documented repeatedly. Now that that’s cleared up, I’ll continue with what I was saying before, that it and its foot soldiers pay little or no attention to the negative impact that interventionism will have on our daily lives. That much is crystal clear. But did you know that if Film Actors Guild (FAG)’s disciples are frightened that Film Actors Guild (FAG) might create a sick, snippy world of guilt and shame by the next full moon, they have only themselves to blame? That’s why I’m telling you that if I withheld my feelings on this matter, I’d be no less pernicious than Film Actors Guild (FAG). Anyway, that’s it for this letter. Let Film Actors Guild (FAG) read it and weep.

Signed, Alec Baldwin”

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