THE NEW
PRESIDENT HAS NO CLOTHES
by: Del Castle
This election reminds me of
the fable about how a crew of crafty
tailors, (in this case spinmeisters, focus groups and high priced election
consultants), sought to con an Emperor into to paying for a robe without cloth.
They convinced him that the cloth was so fine that no one but those with
special perception could see its true beauty.
Soon word spread through
the kingdom that only those who lacked good taste would fail to see the
Emperor's beautiful new, virtual robe. On
the day the Emperor was to wear the glorious new robe in public, everyone
gathered around. Of course, the
Emperor appeared naked, but no one would admit it for fear of being thought
stupid. But a young lad in the
crowd shouted out, “The Emperor has no clothes.”
Whereupon the Emperor was deposed and all his subjects vowed they would
never again be taken in by crafty tailors.
This may remind us of the
present election for President. All
the crafty spinmeisters, focus groups and high priced election consultants are
trying to sell us a President without a majority vote or a mandate to govern.
The new President - likely Bush - is not clothed with authority.
First, he didn’t win by a
majority. Second, he will have to
flounder around with a 50-50 divided Senate and an almost evenly divided House
of Representatives. Third, he will
also face a Congressional election in two years that will likely divide Congress
into warring camps looking to win the 2004 presidential election.
That means that projected hopes for a “coalition of Democrats and
Republicans” in the Bush administration is highly unlikely.
Last, but not least, the outright conservatives in the House and Senate
are, on the record, unwilling to compromise except on their own anti-labor,
anti-social security, anti-civil rights position.
It is time that the people
see through the crafty tailors’ no cloth robe elections and begin to forge an
independent political force that can expose the spinmeisters, focus groups and
high-pay election consultants and their Presidents without clothing.
Power to the People!
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