O Happy Day

Dennis R Redmond dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu
Wed Dec 13 17:03:02 PST 2000


On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, kelley wrote:


> i don't know, but it all brought back my torment prior to the
> election. conservatives are a scary, slimey bunch. one would hope that
> they will be gridlocked, but after this ruling?

On the contrary, this whole election has been one gigantic millenium-fest. Not one single apparatus of our one-party state has escaped severe damage or delegitimation. Congress is hopelessly deadlocked. The Constitution looks exactly like what it truly is: a cotton rag, proclaiming the liberty of white propertied males to be white, propertied and male, inked in the blood of millions of slaves and indigenous Americans. Dubya came off as a spoiled brat who crashed his new Mercedes, only to be bailed out by Jeb Boy. The verminous 18th century monstrosity known as the electoral college is cowering in the media spotlight, with nowhere to hide. The devious slimecreature known as Gore was sent packing. A genetically identical but much stupider and less slick slimecreature took its place, in a fine example of the reverse cranial evolution which has typified the ecological decline of Bananamerica (Ike, Nixon, Reagan... Shrub). And wouldn't you know it, even the Supreme Court has managed to land facefirst in the lovely estuary of the Great Floridian Swamp. There's just no downside to any of this, anywhere. Dubya is that rarest of all gifts to an opposition, a genuine horse's ass, the Louis XVI of postmodernism.

-- Dennis



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