The Dark Side of Mom and Dad often is a domestic screaming
match between a Manipulative, Vindictive Bitch and a Murderous, Vicious
Bastard. Heard often against the
clicking of an over worked air conditioner floating in trailer parks, and gated
communities as well. Aggregated it
represents itself in politics in just about everywhere. Here, in God’s Country, it is the core
difference of the angry side of the Democratic and Republican Parties, and
replicated within in many a contentious fragment.
The Bright of the Mom-Dad dichotomy is the Nurture and
Protection of the Family with a dramatic variant of the Knight, Nurse and
Infant. Kissing babies is a political
must. And everything a politician does
is “for the children”.
So swings the Pendulum between the light and dark, between
mom and dad from extreme to extreme.
Sometimes there is more than one pendulum swinging and from different
directions. That’s called LIFE.'
Pardon the mixed metaphors but there are True Believers of
each slice riding upon the blades hurling bolts of bullshit and veracity at
each other, with the throwing oft more valuable than hitting. That’s called propaganda (as in propagating
the faith). In Transactional Analysis,
it is called Stamp Collecting, Games and Scripts, all of which are useful in
political analysis.
While there appears to be swings of the blade each decade,
the current swipe and America has taken about fifty years to reach full force,
starting in the Grey Flannel Days of the Fifties, triggered by the Sixties,
tripped out by the Seventies, indulged in the Eighties, and beginning with
Orange Juice the counter attack began against the Psychedelic, Tie died, Daddy
Hating Progressive Left by the Commie/Mommy hating, Retro Fixated Isolationist
Straight and Narrow.
Then there are the neighbors, bill collectors, employers,
and busy bodies whose purpose in life is to make your life a benefit to theirs,
by adding or subtracting. Meddlers from
afar have included the French, the British, and the Russians. The United States used to be called a
Republic until the United Kingdom sold the idea that the UK and US were
democracies…Republican was not an Irish option.
Since then the People’s Democratic Republics have been
undermining the Republic in the name of something that is not in the
Constitution. This time, the Tsar has
returned without the Democracy defect and seeking to drive the US from foreign
soils, water and air that threatens Mother Russia.
The Left has been abandoned by Russia, and the underlying
purpose of Progressivism to undermine the US, has been shifted to the Straight
and Narrow. It is time for the rest of
us to get off the swing and get down to work.