When the Author is a Bully

Hobbes: “One Person of whose Acts a great Multitude have made themselves every one the Author.”

Yesterday in Washington DC Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the House of Representatives) called for a cooling down of public rhetoric. Recently protestors on the right have appeared in Washington with placards vowing the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Some have brandished weapons.

Politicians on the right declare that these assemblies are merely the outcry of a population that’s opposed to more government programs. But Speaker Pelosi was correct–there’s an underpinning of ugliness and hostility to what is occurring and it’s important to note that these rallies in opposition to President Obama’s policies are largely organized and funded by Republican groups which finance the events. In this manner the GOP is the Author of their Multitude and many in that multitude (small “m”) are engaging in treasonous activity.

Jan Marshall one of our blogging friends in the UK (who writes beautifully about cancer survivorship among many other things) tells of a new hotline in Britain that you can call if you’re being bullied. Of course I immediately wish to call. I want to say: “Help! My democracy is being bullied by Fascists wearing 18th century tri-cornered hats! People who believe that America is the land of commodity fetishism. People with guns strapped to their legs. Oh yeah and they’re homophobic, racist, unlettered, and sub-Cartesian. Thank you for listening.”   

We’re being bullied by the apocalypse crowd.

Political parties are essentially primitive secret societies. A good rule of thumb is to ask which one is the most primitive and stay the hell away.

S.K.

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