An Allegory for
Our Time by Gary Brumback. OpEdNews, August 3, 2018.
To preserve and
expand its power, America’s power elite, hugely outnumbered, must keep the
massive but powerless, subjugated and exploited public at bay. It does so in myriad
ways. One is to divide and conquer the public. Perhaps the oldest means of
doing this was to have written the U.S. Constitution and then years later to
have created multiple political parties to confuse and distract the public. Another
is to impose a police state that takes no prisoners. Another is to spin the
legacies of US presidents whose behavior was so odious and heinous that to
leave it bare and open to the public would likely cause a revolt. Another is to create foreign enemies to
stoke fear and the revenue draining national security budget. Another is to
create an open-door immigration law to further diversify the nation as well as
to gain cheap labor. Yet another, more relevant to the allegory to be told, is
to barrage the public daily with corporate mainstream media’s propaganda and
untruths about any prominent politician who does not fall meekly in line with
the power elite’s imperialistic agenda.
That brings us to
the current U.S. president, Donald J. Trump, the only US president in America’s
history to challenge the corpocracy’s power elite. There isn’t one aspect of
his domestic or foreign policy views and actions that have not come under
withering attack from those who are fearful of America’s corpocracy crumbling.
Consider his seeking to localize more and globalize less America’s economy. If
I were to pick two of the corpocracy’s strategies that have turned America into
a third world country in terms of quality of life conditions for the citizenry
they would be globalization and a burgeoning war budget. Consider his seeking
to end America’s open-door immigration policy, one that I have already
mentioned that serves only the power elite. Consider his seeking detent with
Russia and North Korea, enemies created by his predecessors solely by and for
America’s power elite.
In
short, Trump goes against the grain of the corpocracy. He’s not really one of
its members. He is the only US president never to have previously held public
office, which means he wasn’t groomed in a poisonous crucible spewing out
corruptible politicians. He made his fortune in the real estate industry, one
of the least injurious of the major industries such as the war industry. In
other words, despite his wealth and position, he senses and is trying to be
responsive to the needs, despair and misery of Joe and Jill America, which
brings us now to the allegory. I got it in an e-mail from a friend who tells me
the author is unknown. Here it is.
The Racoon Story
“If
you really want to know how the majority of people feel? And this applies to
both Democrats and Republicans; read below, it says it all. You've been on
vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with
raccoons. Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement.
You want them gone immediately.
You
call the city, 4 different exterminators, but nobody can handle the job. But
there is this one guy and he guarantees you to get rid of them, so you hire
him. You don't care if the guy smells, you don't care if the guy swears, you
don't care if he's an alcoholic, you don't care how many times he's been
married, you don't care if he has a plumber's crack, you simply want those
raccoons gone! You want your problem fixed! He's the guy. He's the best. Period
!
Here's
why we want Trump, yes, he's a bit of an ass, yes, he's an egomaniac, but we
don't care. The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republicans and
Democrats can be two-faced and gutless, and illegals are everywhere. We want it
all fixed! We don't care that Trump is crude, we don't care that he insults
people, we don't care that he has changed positions, we don't care that he's
been married 3 times, we don't care that he fights with Megyn Kelly and Rosie
O'Donnell, we don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslin
terrorist.
This
country is weak, bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, we are being
invaded by illegals, we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom,
Ricardo, and Hasid is a special group with special rights to a point where we
don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in; "AND WE JUST
WANT IT FIXED" and Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the
people want.
We're
sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic Party, Republican Party, and sick
of illegals. We just want this thing fixed.
Trump may not be a saint, but he doesn't have lobbyist money holding him;
he doesn't have political correctness restraining him; all you know is that he
has been very successful, a good negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and
he's also not a politician, he's not a cowardly politician. And he says he'll
fix it, and we believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven
wrong or looked at and called a liar. Also, we don't care if the guy has bad
hair. We just want those raccoons gone, out of our house, NOW. The raccoons
have got to go.” End of story.
In Closing
Wonder
what will be Trump’s legacy some day? Like that of Honest Abe? No. Abe was not
so honest, was a racist, and triggered a war that killed 750,000 Americans
simply so the power elite could maintain a “unified” country large and strong
enough to keep expanding its empire. Like that of Likeable Ike? No.
Over a million Koreans were slaughtered due to his decisions, not to mention
the reign of terror by his puppet dictators in Central America. Like Harry
Truman? No. In addition to his culpability for war crimes against N. Korea, He
sent millions to their deaths just to show Russia America was no weakling and
thus to usher in a profitable Cold War. Like LBJ and his murderous war crimes?
No. Like Bill Clinton, called “the world's leading active war criminal?1
No. Like George Bush and his devastation of Iraq? No. Like his predecessor,
Obama who began drone killing shortly after taking office and kept on droning
and rationalizing? No.2
No,
I predict that when trump’s tenure is over he will have been the least
murderous of all his predecessors save two who died early in office and the
most populist president of any before him. To ensure a continuation of his
policies and actions that erode the dangerous and malevolent power elite of the
corpocracy, all Americans who agree with the Racoon Story need to help build a
“Citizens’ Voice Alliance” or a “Peoples’ America.” Notice that I didn’t call
them “parties.”
Notes
1.
Herman, ES. Clinton Is the WorId's Leading Active War Criminal. Z magazine,
December 1999. Herman is an economist
and media analyst.
2.
See, for example, my article, Spinning the Legacies of America’s Presidents. Dissident
Voice, July 31; OpEdNews, August 1, 2016.
