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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (10491)10/4/2001 3:43:04 AM
From: MonsieurGonzo  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 11051
 
DJ> strange bedfellows...

> dont forget NRA...

politics all topsy-turvy over here (over there too, I'll wager :) though the pictures on this evening's die Welt newsprogrammertelebroadcastshow showing us very dour looking Germans trying their best to commemerate, if not celebrate East+West re-unification (where was the ceremony, in Mainz? I remember once, missing a train to Bonn, taking wild taxi ride through Mainz (SP?) trying to catch up with ever-on-time friggin' German train, late Gonzo) anyhoo...

NRA? hey ~ now the NRA (are good guys) is aligned with the angry WESTERN Republican civil Libertarians + the marginalized old-money WASP NORTHEASTERN civil Libertarians + the weird-o NewYork/SFO/Berzerkely BabyBoomer civil Libertarians + the ultra-conservative Libertarian writers (W.F.Buckley, G.Will, S.Sontag, G.Soros, etc.) - apparently these are the only voices (able to get away with) whinin' about "hey - looks like Big Government!", and, "hey - what's with the messin' around with the Bill of Rights!", and "hey - what's this talk about National I.D. cards and {gulp} registration of firearms crap!"...

Meanwhile, Republican Party now consisting of (1) Dixiecrats, who left Demos in 60's because of Civil Rights, women; (2) Organized Baptists, recruited from Demos by Reagan to counter Organized Labour; and, (3) Business Bourgeoisie, began with boomer-era students, (later yuppies) who voted for Nixon / against War + LBJ, later recruited in force by Poppy Bush, reaching a climax with Dubya...

...their Prozac-flatlined, sub-urban SUV-driving "soccer wives" and equally drug-addled Ritalin Kids. They call themselves "conservatives", while embracing liberalizing land use; Keynesian Fiscal Liberalism; using trade sanctions, tariffs; replacing Republican Libertarian philosophical foundations with Theocracy dogma espousing something called "Family Values" ~ hell, their idea of "University" is now, "Business School" (!) and, the only Family Value that I can see in these Business Bourgeoisie Republicans is daily/group dosing of mighty strong anti-psychotic drugs (^_^)

Republicans - now Dixie Social-Theocrats.

Democrats - now rag-tag collection of dis-affected + disenfranchised urbanists :-/

Conservatives? hell, we're FREAKED OUT

...but I'M SAFE: I've got my FLAG hangin' out the window (for when Danton & Robespierre come down the street), I wear my FLAG lapel-pin, have my FLAG bumper-sticker on my JEEP, and just in case things get nasty over here ~ my FLAG arm-band :-/

otoh, MadameGonzo now telling me, "You know, you could tone it down with the 'Dubya is still an idiot' rhetoric and, maybe we should sell all the subversive literature in our Library (Bertrand Russell, Lewis Mumford, Proust, Anais Nin, etc.)

GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE NEW WAR ON TERRORISM

...hey, need some economy ? - well... let's PRINT IT UP, says Dubya: or,

... "How I learned to stop worrying about my Civil Rights and love the War On Terrorism".

-Steve

(in case you haven't noticed, we're all hysterical over here ;-)