Building Guillotines

God bless Charlie Rangel! Nobody could have done better to expose Congress as petty, pompous, ineffective and irrelevant. Republicans beware! All your planned investigations will come to naught. Charlie has shown the way out of this theater of the absurd.

You don’t even know it yet – you, with your eyes shining so eager and bright. You, with your arcane tea ceremony skills, do not even realize that you have been deputized by a people who don’t exist in this government’s eyes – which means, you don’t exist. The best you can do is to blend in, to play the game and appear to fit in; to rubberstamp decrees sent from on high, while the people find new ways to distain you from afar.

It’s already started – the people’s revolt – at airports, in the marketplace, on the radio. Wherever people meet, know that you are despised, Democrats and Republicans alike. Do what you will on the hill. It’s got nothing to do with us. We are the ones who will survive, our women knitting to prepare for certain winter while our men are busy building the guillotines.

God bless Charlie Rangel for peeling yet another layer of paint off the salt pillar saint of two-tier privilege, and letting us know in no uncertain terms that we stand alone and can no longer expect any meaningful benefit from partnering with Washington.