Of The Passing Parade

A MEA CULPA MOMENT

       I

I can't really

Get into too high a dudgeon

With the likes of an Alinsky

If, in a past incarnation

I was a Lenin,

                   and he

Has just built on

What I advocated

At the time;

           that is,

That the end

Justifies the means.

Or so it seems

In the pageantry

Of the passing parade.

        II

I am very fortunate

               in that

Little known to me at the time

I was preparing

For my future,

              in that

I was working 

Within a system

That gave me recompense then

Even though I don't believe

In socialism

Or anything

That smacks of it,

Like 'social security,' 

                   run by

Too powerful of a state.

The state reflects the will of its leader.

Set the kingdom well

And you will be right.

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P.S. A hopeful note in a daily pile of my mostly bad-news mail:

An outfit called the Center For Individual Freedom has sent me a petition to send to the governor of my state - headed 'Make My Vote Count' -  calling on him or her (him, in my instance; a liberal, but hope springs eternal) to support meaningful, common-sense Voter Identification procedures in the state - meaning, in this instance, requiring a photo ID in order to cast one's ballot.  

(As Jeff Mazzella, President of CFIF, says in his covering letter:  "Today you and I have to show a Photo ID to get on an airplane or train; open a bank account, withdraw money from it, or cash a check; to pick up concert tickets; and even go into a federal building."  He could also have said - specifically to counter the Left's attempted argument that such a requirement is to discriminate against 'the poor' - that a photo ID is also needed to apply for welfare benefits.)

As I said in my supportive response to his mailing: "Excellent initiative - thanks, Jeff.  (I wasn't going to vote - be part of a fraudulent operation, a charade - for this very reason.  Given hope [like this initiative], I will now reconsider.)"

But it is still an uphill battle, with the Obama administration's Department of Justice - under its disgraced AG, Eric Holder -  fighting such state initiatives all the way:

 "Yet the 'powers that be' in Washington, D.C., are already using the left-wing bias media to spin the story [i.e., that "a recent poll indicates 83 recent of Americans support Photo ID requirements for voting" (emphases his)] by labeling us conservatives 'bigots' and 'racists.'"  Oh, how that Alinskyite-type crap makes my blood boil - to demonize your opponent with smear words, rather than engage in meaningful debate with them.*

Ah - but perhaps I should look at this sort of thing in the spirit of my 'mea culpa' moments, above.

How can I do that??  I know.  With a two-pronged fork:

1) Look at it all as 'God moving in mysterious ways' by separating the sheep from the goats; the latter of whom, with their lack of sufficient consciousness to advance, will be left behind at Ascension Day; and 

2) Sending a letter, headed 

     'Dear Barry and Eric,

     'Thank you, for playing the Devil's Advocate.  (And so well!)  

     'You can soon return to your proper level of consciousness.

     'That is, if you haven't gotten ensnared in your roles…...'

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* "Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Liberal Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz says conservatives 'want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws' with Voter ID requirements."  Oh, really, Debbie???…I have but one word to say in response:          

     Bollocks.  

     Actually, I have two.  But I'll keep this clean.