Djelloul Marbrook

Remember the funhouses where we used to laugh at ourselves? We’d look into those convex and concave mirrors and make faces to see how downright silly we are and then we’d go home to the serious business of being ourselves, forgetting how much of ourselves we’d left behind.

Well, what if we’re locked up in a funhouse and can’t go home anymore?

The telecommunications hogs are trying to shut down the Internet where just about the only job creation left in America is going on. The globalist khans (you know, the ones who stuff obscene paychecks and options in their own pockets while booting thousands of us) are unleashing an immigration avalanche on the open graves of the middle class. Retirees are being betrayed by companies they gave their lives to. Children of the poor and soon-to-be-poor are being slaughtered so the rich can sack other countries, having already sacked ours. The liberties that distinguish us from everybody else are being rolled up by fat cats and their congressional lackeys. Voting districts are being gerrymandered and elections rigged.

And where are the leaders of this most powerful and church-going society?

They’re huffing and puffing about flag burning (they can document maybe four instances), homosexuality (the evidence points to biological causes), gay clergy and the family values they’re helping every day to destroy by forcing families to work more for less. And they’re hoping these phony issues will distract us while they dismantle the republic and ship the remnant overseas to their stinking rich buddies.

This is faith? This is leadership? These are values? Patriotism? Feels like
betrayal to me, betrayal all prettied up and toilet-watered in piety.

What can be said in defense of legislators who give themselves a $3,300 pay raise and refuse to raise the minimum wage, of the churchgoers who rage about gays and abortion and stem cell research that would save millions of lives and can’t untie their tongues when it comes to institutional greed and hypocrisy?

And just as we thought we were getting a bit jaded here in the funhouse a former vice president and putative president comes knocking to tell us the water really is rising. And oh yeah, insurance rates are rising even faster.

—DM