Round Four of 'Thrilla' in America by Frank R. Morris

            Round Four of ‘Thrilla’ in America
             

by  Frank   R.   Morris

 

 Prepare! The 2006 onslaught of the Karl Rove Hate and Fear Show is about to begin.  This media circus has worked for two Presidential elections and one Congressional election. The idea is to scare the living Beelzebub out of Americans that “coming in your neighborhood soon are the evil terrorists who will blast you, drug you, chemically destroy your family, and biologically reduce you to blobs of protoplasm”   Scouts honor!  Card one: Security. 

 

 It does not matter where you live. The Scourge is coming. The Black Death. The Big Bad Wolf.  Mongols and Vikings have formed an alliance. There will be a mushroom cloud in your future - and here’s the catch - unless you vote for Republicans.  It’s a matter of national security, children! Only testosterone-driven Neo-Cons can make this country safe. The weenie Democrats are asleep at the switch and do not know that the enemy is at the gates.

 

 I can sniff the ads emanating from the pig yard. “Vote Republican! Why? Because the Wimp faction - those sissy girly-men - don’t have a pint of fight among the lot of them.  Where is their chest hair? Where were they when we were attacking Iraq? They don’t have guts. They want to negotiate and use diplomacy and follow silly surrender games with the U.N   Not us Republicans. Each white man of us knows might is right, power should be used in a Shock and Awe fashion, and that the only thing terrorists understand is what comes out of the barrel of a gun! And, as for guns, we think everyone in America should be wearing one on her or his hip. That’s the solution to everything. No terrorist will want to come to our country once we are armed with 50 caliber sniper rifles in every home.  Security is the issue! Raise the color on the Terrorist bar code.  (Anything to win, anything to scare Americans to vote R, anything to sway public opinion will be used in extremis).

 

 Pardon me while I barf.

 

 Card Two. War President. George Bush is the War President. He has been the War President since 9/11. The War President needs a sympathetic Congress. If Dems were to win, they might question the Iraq War instigated by the War President. That would be bad, bad, bad. Why? Because democracies must flourish in the Mideast and the Iraq War initiated by the War President cannot be challenged by unpatriotic Senators or Congressmen who do not agree with everything said by the War President. (There is no need to instigate a reality check and point out that terrorists have multiplied since Bush’s war,  Hamas won the Palestinian democratic election or that, in Iraq’s December elections, a Shia theocracy won out in Southern Iraq thereby cancelling rights for women and the Kurds in the North want their own country. Why is reality ignored? Because we have a War President who has the bully pulpit with the media).

 

 Remember, kiddies, that the Iraq War is really about the War on Terrorism. Only an extreme cynic would think that it had anything to do with oozing oil. If you oppose the War President you are for the terrorists. No doubt about it. Bush is the War President and he can spy on American citizens, jail American citizens as enemy combatants without legal options, and torture people if he wants to because he is “protecting the American People. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. Hail to the Chief.

 

 Card Three. God.  The word “God” has been used to justify a thousand wars including the present one. If you haven’t noticed, Pat R., Jerry F., and James Dobson are frequently on mainline media trumping war and the War President. Ugly liberal Christians, Muslims, and Jews are not invited to speak on television. The Pat, Jerry and James show contain ultimate truth so why should anyone else be allowed an opinion?  If you do, you are in danger of hellfire. Who wants to spend the next several trillion years burning without even a glass of water handy? 

 

 In days gone by there was a song for children in churches: “Jesus wants you for a sunbeam to shine throughout the land”. Now the song is apparently changed to “God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and all the angels in heaven want you to vote Republican. Otherwise, you are an immoral, hateful, nasty, trash-talking Democrat”.  So, if you want to join the moral majority, love your family, and get ice cream on Sundays, you must-have to-ought vote R. Watch out and don’t shout because Santa Claus is coming to town.

 

 God - the Ultimate Weapon.  St. Rove wants this card waved to high heaven.

 

 Card Four: Taxes. In old Chicago days, the way to get votes was to give a beer to a drunk, buy a bottle of Ripple for a wino, or purchase a burger for someone in welfare housing. “Vote early and often” was the motto. Now, the Republican pitch is to cut taxes. “It’s not the government’s money, it’s the people’s money” whines Governor Owens of Colorado.  Lecherous old democrats “tax and spend”.  If you believe in mindless bureaucracies, big government, and giving your hard earned money to D.C. politicians, you are a blood-greedy Democrat.. 

 

 Less is more. Subtraction is multiplication. We can wage war and cut taxes. The deficit is nothing. We can afford guns and butter and cut taxes. Do you believe in college aid, building infrastructure, or, Godlets forbid, helping people or solid helping yourself? Vote Republican.

 

 For any idle egg head professor who thinks cold reason can influence American voting by pointing out that government and special interest hand-outs  have grown recently, don’t waste your breath. Propaganda is all. Truth has nothing to do with perception. As long as the media is complicit,  Democrats fail in attacking back, and  the War President has the bully pulpit,  reality is dead. The tax con is just as good as the Chicago Machine’s buying of a wino, drunk, or bum.
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 Well, there you have it: Karl Rove’s winning formula in a nutshell.

 

 Will the American People actually awaken and discover there are no nuts under any of the four shells in the political shell game?  Or will they keep nuts in office?