"Who dealt this mess, anyway?"
*Yeah, that’s an old card player’s term,
but sometimes, you can use the old switcheroo and it can be applied to …
Frontal politics.
What I mean is …
Who was it that set up a system
A supposedly democratic system
Where you end up always voting for the lesser of two evils?
I mean, was George Washington the lesser of two evils?
Sometimes I wonder …
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(spoken section over gospel piano)
Not sure The Fugs would’ve stooped to performing anything from Hair, but I stand ready to be corrected. (Pretty sure the song Kobal2 is pastiching is “Sodomy” from that musical.)
Trump wants the government to take full control over private corporations, and tell them where they can conduct business, and who they can buy from.
It looks very much like Trump believes that all legal production and distribution decisions should be made by the government. So can I assume that the Republican platform going forward will be that the government will determine the output and pricing levels of all produced goods and services, and the government will decide what countries corporations may trade with?
Come now. The corporations will take him in hand, whisper in his ear, and have things back to capitalism normal in no time. The “I hereby command you” thing will soon be forgotten as an absurd anomaly.
If a wanker like Wayne LePierre can manipulate him, the Powers That Be will have no trouble.
Sounds more like absolute monarchy to me. Or, possibly, a Shogunate - I mean, they’re already denying anyone the right to come in, denying everyone the right to go out seems like the obvious next step. Make America Sakoku Again !