Well, Roger Mexico don't usually do a blog. But here goes.
We're coming up, it seems to me, on the Mother of All Elections, the "Perfect Storm" of the independence of the electorate vs the Ship of State. We have fascists in government [let's not mince words here!], a fool at the wheel declaring himself to be "The Decider" as he drunkenly veers toward the cliff edge at the side of the mountain road, and whores tricked out as "journalists," and "anchors," and "pundits," giving play-by-play on how the "President" is "standing firm."
I was listening to the endless blather on the radio today, and heard some genius talking about "the levees." His coy metaphorical construction was that the Democrats might have oh so many forces on their side - "breakers" of bad news, "tsunamis" of scandals, and floodlines of poll numbers seeming as if ready to swamp the Republicans next Tuesday. But, he ventured a thought [profoundly], the Republicans PROBABLY have their "levees" fully in place to withstand all that. They might, thanks to the "levees" of their [fucking] "base" be able to withstand the STORM and retain their control of Congress.
Tonight I went out with my sweet radical honey, Ms. Roger Mexico, for our traditional TGIF repast at a local pub. She works for the city school system and we often talk about the stupidity and insanity of what's going on there, below the radar of what's ever presented effectively to the public. It's no wonder her lil darling students would rather trash the schools than put up with another minute of it.
But anyway, I'm driving home and listening on the good ol' dash CD to the latest from Brother Bob, SAINT Bob, Roger Mexico's main man. Bob's wonderful "Modern Times."
"If it keep on rainin,' the levee's gonna break," he rocks out, again & again - "If it keep on RAININ,' the LEVEE's gonna BREAK."
An' listening to this song, which I've already listened to thirty times or more, it occurs to me Bob's not looking back in some after-the-fact prophesy about Katrina. No, my epiphany is that Bob's throwing it all up at WHAT's COMING! What's "in the cards," as they say. The bookies done laid their ODDS!
It's been "raining" hypocrisy and scumbaggery and LYING, and murder, and betrayal, and bloodshed and violation and stupidity and GREED for SO damn long that all the Army Corps's of Engineers in the whole history of the world couldn't stop THESE levees from breaking!
'Course, I wouldn't mind at all if George W. Bush wanted to volunteer his smirking chimp ass to be a lil Dutch boy standing there on the buckaroo campaign trail sticking his shit-stained lil fingers in the dyke, cheerleading "We'll prevail," "We have a PLATFORM TO STAND ON!" and heroically waiting for those "levees" to prove their strength.
Go ahead, George - stick in in.
Bless be to Brother Bob.