On The Game

'But Nancy, that's not constitutional.  Is it?'

'Are you serious?  Are you serious?'

'...How do you mean.'

'I realize that you're new in this town.  But nobody around here goes by the Constitution any more.'

'But..what about the Supreme Court? And all that...sort of thing?'

'What about it?  Come on.  Wakey wakey.  The Republican judges have it say what they want it to say, and our judges have it say what we want it to say.  Look: It's a game.  That's all.'

'..The Games That People Play...'

'Now you've got it.  And the better you are at playing it, the more power you get.'

'The name of the game.'

'That's it.  Power.  That's what it's all about.   That's what it's all ever been all about.  It's the same with us women getting the vote.  We had to start playing The Game by 'their' rules.''

'I see.  And so - and speaking of 'the vote': when the other side talks about 'Voter Integrity...'

'We talk about 'Voter Suppression'.   And so forth.  Right.  Now you're getting it.

'Welcome to The Club.'

The Club over the head.  Beating humanity into submission.  To...

...well.  You know.  By now.

And what you may know - or not - is that

that Day is over.

It's time for

the Real Thing.