Guillotine.....
 I've
had it with that "Let them
eat cake" routine from King
George II. He could at least
pretend to care about us, and
we'll pretend to believe him. It
would be only window dressing, of
course, but I'll take it. A
little lip-service to the great
unwashed masses. A friendly wink,
maybe. Any type of connect. But
it won't happen. Because, you
see, these Texans seem to be
hard-wired for greed and
arrogance, members of an
exclusive private club for
wealthy captains of commerce,
more often resembling 18th
century European aristocracy than
21st century American
representative government. I'm
not asking for Abraham Lincoln
here, but don't give us Leonna
Helmsly. The man campaigned for
president as a moderate
candidate, but governs with the
contempt, imperviousness and
self-interest of a monarch.
That's not what we intended.
I
would assume the president has
noticed events beginning to sour
on his watch. Serious events.
Everything from economics to
warfare. Will he turn to his much
touted faith for answers? If so,
then he should come away
transformed by the realization
that he's on the wrong path for
someone who is president of all
Americans, people who feel that
their interests should also be
his interests. But I don't
suspect they are, and I don't
think he'll turn to his faith.
Not his spiritual faith anyway.
He'll turn, instead, to what got
him here: wealth, power, inside
information and manipulation.
He'll use the single most
powerful position on the planet
to proclaim, unabashedly and
unapologetically, that there are
some people like himself, and
then there are the rest of us. A
King for our time. Did this guy
ever have to sweat a rent
payment, or build a doghouse? It
doesn't seem like it. George has
soft hands and a cold heart, and
I can't relate. The wealthy
power-brokers seem to be morally
myopic and sensitivity
challenged, and the odor of
elitism and corruption follows in
their wake. Patronizing attitudes
of opulence makes it obvious that
we're the little people who
(except at election time) really
don't matter at all, the nuts and
bolts in the machine that can
simply be discarded and replaced.
Old spark plugs. Used batteries.
The noble, though dispensable,
proletariat. Which wouldn't be so
bad, really, if it wasn't shoved
in our faces so often. But it's
an ongoing pattern. The few
benefit while the many suffer.
Insider selling. Corporate
mismanagement. Accounting fraud.
Golden parachutes. Power access.
It never seems to end, and the
Elites never seem to have to
answer for actions undertaken to
embellish their own net worth, no
matter how unethical or illegal.
It's a question of fairness, and
it's the kind of activity that
King George will condone at his
own risk, lest "the
people", come November,
2004, employ the political
equivalent of what befell the
fortunes of another disconnected
practitioner of social and
cultural arrogance...George's
historical soul-mate, Marie
Antoinette.
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