"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
-Abraham Lincoln
"When a man's an empty kettle,
He should be on his mettle,
And yet I'm torn apart.
Just because I'm presumin'
That I could be kinda human
If I only had a heart."
-The Tin Man, The Wizard of Oz
So forget those that are fooled all of the time. You cannot save them. The only hope lies with those who are not fooled. And the problem lies with the fact that they are not fooled only some of the time.
Watching the bread and circuses take place is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing, I suppose, in that we are witness to a pivotal moment in history. The massive amalgamation of wealth and power and the chronic diminution in the commonwealth available to all is a power play of epic proportions. And a curse, I suppose, in that you may be one of those who is not fooled all of the time.
But you can only see through the facade, indeed, perhaps, can only bear seeing through the facade, some of the time. So you must act quickly.
The G.O.P. is actually running a former Wall Street man himself as their candidate for president. As if the decades-long theft of America's wealth, and the eviction of her people from their homes, was not enough. Somehow -- somehow -- they actually convince them that one of the very culprits in their undoing is to be their savior.
Yet that is where we are. And the millions pouring into and poisoning the campaign finance apparatus cannot seem to give the tin man a heart. It is an extraordinary and incredible irony of epic proportions that they fail.
You couldn't make this stuff up.
